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About Halloween Decorations

September 29, 2009 · Posted in Halloween Decorating 

Orange and black are the colors of Halloween.  Mix some orange pumpkins with black bats or cats and put up some orange-and-black crepe paper and there you have it!  Halloween decorations!

I have been called 'nosy,'  but essentially I'm just inquisitive.  I started pondering why orange and black are the colors of all Halloween decorations.  Did Congress pass a law declaring orange and black the chosen official colors of Halloween?  No.  This is one thing that I'll tell you that Congress had nothing to do with.  Here are the ideas about why orange and black are the colors of Halloween :

Halloween is a vacation that has Celtic roots.  The Celtic celebration occurred on the day and night between the end of the harvest season ( October 30 ) and the beginning of winter according to the Celtic calendar ( November 1 ).  It was basically the Celtic New Year.

One concept is that the color, orange, is symbolic of the harvest.  Orange is also symbolic of autumn.  That's the most colorful of the colors the leaves change to before they drop off trees.  The most plain crop that matures at this time of the year is the pumpkin, which is also orange in color.

The prevailing speculation about why black is used is : The color, black, is and always has been the symbolic color of death.  Winter is also symbolic of death.  Black is a color that designates darkness, cold, and death.  Since the Celtics were recognizing the start of winter ( which is brutal in that part of the planet ), black was employed to designate the dark aspect of the party.

So after much research, I have decided that often nobody knows why orange and black are the colors of Halloween.  There are concepts.  I will not find Halloween decorations in any colors aside from orange and black, so I'll just go with the flow.

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Russ D. Edwards

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