This weekend Cardiff celebrated Halloween. We take a Look at some of the more unique parties.
Halloween, before becoming entrenched in American culture and being most famously associated with it, was celebrated by the Celtic peoples who were found all over Europe.
Samhain, as it was originally known, later came to be celebrated as Halloween. Today, the things that come to mind at the mention of Halloween are people dressing up in fancy costumes, kids going around neighborhoods decked up as ghosts or monsters, trick or treating, carving pumpkins into Jack-o-lanterns and visiting haunted places etc.
These are the typical and somewhat stereotyped traditions of Halloween. Some people however, come up with more ingenious ideas to celebrate this beloved festival.
Lisa, a student and resident of Cardiff, attended one such unique party where the theme was ‘the Mexican Day of the Dead’. According to her “the party was different than a normal Halloween party, bright lights and awesome decorations, also, everyone there was less pretentious and really let their guard down”.
Vishu an Indian student attended a Batman Villain’s themed Halloween party, “it was very interesting, we knew all the characters from the story and could dress up as them, it was quite adventurous to be these characters for the night” he says.
