Fundition is being haunted!
It’s only the nice Caspy, but he is being lost and the only way for him to go back to his friends is by opening all the pumpkins and find the ultimate prize! As a Fundition user, your quest is to help him open all the pumpkins in the next seven days, he will find his way and you will be rewarded for that.
Warning! Everybody can open all the pumpkins, but who will actually help Caspy to find his ways? We’ll know by the end of the event, but only lucky ones will be able to do that. Also prizes are getting bigger and bigger on each Pumpkins…
Getting back to the roots!
Halloween is actually an Irish Celtic holiday, more precisely it was the Celtic New Year. 3000 years ago the calendar didn’t end on the 31th December but it was on the 31th October. The very last night of the year was dedicated to the God of Death SAMAIN. On this very special night, Samain allowed the dead to comeback to life and to connect with the people alive. Meanwhile the human didn’t want the dead to approach them hence the disguise and costumes.
In the year 610, the celebration was banned by the pope Boniface.
In the year 835, Gregoire IV created the the All Saints day, and the night before that is the “All hallow even” or “All Hallow’s Eve” that will become Halloween.
In 1840, the Celtics started to flee Ireland and went to the United States, thus bringing their beliefs and traditions with them.
That’s how rituals and meanings started to change and Halloween became what we know of today.
Why do children go for treats?
One of the original ritual of this night was to put cakes, pastries and pies on the front door so that the dead could come and eat but also the homeless.
Later that ritual changed into giving candies to children.
At Fundition, there are no tricks, we only give treats!
Treats can be small and big, it will completely depend on your luck.
Why the Pumpkins?
Another ritual of this holiday, was to place a candle in a veggie such as potato, turnip, beet. It looked like lanterns and it was used to light the path for the dead and to guide them towards food and places to warm up themselves. When the Celtics moved to America, they brought this tradition with them, but instead of those aforementioned veggies they used the pumpkins as it is the veggie of the season.
Another legend: There was a man named Jack O’Lantern who was stingy and mean. He promised the Devil to sold his soul in return of some favors; but Jack cheated and bailed on the Devil, as a consequence on the day of his death (31th October) the Devil didn’t let him enter Hell. Jack is also too villain to enter paradise. His very last favor to the Devil was to be granted an ember. He digged a turnip to lodge his ember and used it as a lantern. Since then, on Halloween he will wander around and maybe around Fundition.io...so be careful!
Good luck on your “Find the Pumpkin” Quest!
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You mean Michael Myers didn't start Halloween? By the way, did you know his mask in the movie is a William Shatner mask painted white? I know that I would be running from him at warp speed.
Thanks for the anecdote, I didn't know about it! :O
Very good dynamic for halloween, very generous of you part!
Thank you! Do not forget to help Caspy to find his ways, to do this, open a pumpkin every day to clear a path :D
I hope you will have a nice Halloween!🦇🎃👻🧟
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Thank you, I hope for you the same thing. :)
Wow thanks for informing me I didn't realise the origin of Halloween. I'll be definitely taking part in that challenge, can't turn down free prizes
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It's always interesting to know the origin of the holidays. :)
This is so Great as Scary (Lovely to be true ;) - Congrats @Fundition Team...love the look you gave Halloween!
Thank you Leotrap! You were afraid, admit it. :D
No way @Goyard...those pumpkins are too much beautiful :)
Great works @fundition
Halloween will be memorable for Children this year
Superb!
Thank you!
I think they're going to pick up a lot of candy. :D
Happy Halloween to all the Fundition's team :D
Thanks to you too! :)
the origin of hallowen goes back 300 years before Christ in northern Europe where a civilization known as the Celts, and their group of priests called druids, held a festival each year in honor of San Jain whom they considered the god of the death, to whom they offered sacrifices to calm their anger, they believed that tonight the physical world was united with the spiritual world, the druids passed house by house asking that the families offer a sacrifice for san jain, if the family cooperated then they they left a pumpkin with a candle inside as meaning that they had cooperated then the demons did not hurt them, but if they did not cooperate they marked their house and the spirits could do whatever they wanted. this is where the famous hallowen, sweet or mischief party originates.
and of course you have to open pumpkins to help people
Ah I didnt know about the Turnip! Nice one