Halloween in the Shadow of the COVİD-19
Halloween, celebrated every year on October 31, has become a secular celebration today, although it has first Pagan and then Christian roots. It is a feast where children, often dressed in gruesome costumes, go door to door collecting sweets and pocket money. Other Halloween celebrations include masquerades, pumpkin lantern carving, horror film sessions and trips to homes believed to be haunted. Halloween is celebrated in countries and regions, mainly in North America and the British Isles. Halloween celebrations, which are quite a large and majestic festival in these regions, are widespread in Japan, the Philippines and Latin America, as well as other Western countries in Europe and Oceania, due to the influence of American culture. Like Halloween, many holidays, festivals , concerts have been postponed or cancelled to later dates under COVID-19 measures. Halloween has also been cancelled in many countries, so it seems that this year we will have to celebrate in homes in terms o...