Carnival (or Halloween) is undoubtedly the biggest celebration for adults
and children alike. In addition, Greece is rich in traditional Carnival/Halloween
customs, traditions and festivities. Traditional Halloween/Carnival events
take place in almost every Greek city, each one with particular emphasis
on the local customs (e.g. the Naoussa, Tyrnavos, Thiva, Rethymno Carnivals
and many, many others) with outstanding among them all the Carnival of
Patra.
Discover the amazing world of Carnival and Halloween Costumes through
the rich catalogue of our Company. Choose the Halloween costume of your
liking, from the rich collection of our Halloween/carnival costumes and
attract all glances on you. Are you a member of a Halloween/Carnival Group?
Choose your favorite costume and make the "difference".
A vast variety of Halloween/carnival costumes (youthful & sexy, clowns,
oriental nights etc) is available for wholesale and retail sale, which
are also ideal for carnival groups.
See for yourself some of our carnival and Halloween costumes: Youthful
Sexy Halloween Costumes: Witch Costume, Policewoman Costume, Nun
Costume, Merry Widow Costume, Nurse Costume, Pirate Girl Costume, and
many others.
Clown Halloween costumes: Harlequin Costume, Pierrot Costume, Baby Girl
Costume, Necktie Clown Costume, Tuxedo Clown Costume, and many others.
Oriental Night Halloween Costumes: Arab Costume, Bedouin Costume, Maharajah
Costume, Fatima Costume, Harem Girl Costume, and many others.
Let your imagination free and enjoy Halloween and the Carnival, this
big event of masquerading and fun. Disguise yourselves, live and enjoy
Halloween with our Carnival and Halloween Costumes.
Halloween is an observance celebrated on the night of October 31, most
notably by children dressing in costumes and going door-to-door collecting
candy. It is celebrated in much of the Western world, though most common
in the United States, Puerto Rico, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Canada
and sometimes in Australia and New Zealand. Irish, Scots and other immigrants
brought older versions of the tradition to North America in the 19th century.
Most other Western countries have embraced Halloween as a part of American
pop culture in the late 20th century.
The term Halloween comes from hallow and eve, as it is the evening before
"All Hallows Day". In Ireland, the name was Hallow Eve and this
name is still used by some older people. Halloween was also sometimes
called All Saints' Eve. The holiday was a day of religious festivities
in various northern European pagan traditions, until it was appropriated
by Christian missionaries and given a Christian interpretation. In Mexico
and Belgium, November 2nd, the day after All Hallows Day, is the Day of
the Dead
Halloween is also called Pooky Night in some parts of Ireland, presumably
named after the púca, a mischievous spirit.
In Great Britain and Ireland in particular, the pagan Celts celebrated
the Day of the Dead on All Hallows Day (1st November). The spirits supposedly
rose from the dead and, in order to attract them, food was left on the
doors. To scare off the evil spirits, the Celts wore masks. When the Romans
invaded Britain, they embellished the tradition with their own, which
is both a celebration of the harvest and of honoring the dead. Very much
later, these traditions were transported to the United States and Canada
and other places in the New World.
Halloween is sometimes associated with the occult. Many European cultural
traditions hold that Halloween is one of the "liminal" times
of the year when the spirit world can make contact with the natural world
and when magic is most potent (see, for example, Catalan mythology about
witches).