Monday October 21, 2024 | LANGFORD, BC
by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends
Many neighbourhood streets will be spooky-cool in Langford this Halloween, on Thursday October 31.
Parents, families and teens enjoy getting out for trick-or-treating for a traditional Halloween evening. They meet their neighbours, enjoy showing off their costumes, and collect a lot of candy and treats.
Community events:
Community events are also a big attraction on Halloween!
- Thursday October 31. Treat Street in Langford. Presented by Langford Fire Rescue. Free family friendly Halloween fun at The Langford Station, 720 Station Ave, 5:30 to 8:30 pm. Hot dogs, candy, chocolate bars, live music.
- Thursday October 31. Trick or Treat at WestShore Town Centre. Fun for the kids! Candy and witch’s brew. 3:30 to 5 pm. 2945 Jacklin Road, Langford. Trick-or-treat at participating retailers & enjoy a complimentary goblet of Witches Brew, poured by #thebubblebusco.
- Saturday November 2. Smashing Pumpkins event at Westshore Town Centre. Fundraiser for Langford Fire Rescue (proceeds will benefit the BC Burn Fund). 10 am to 2 pm. Bring leftover jack-o-lanterns to drop from the 100-ft fire engine ladder. Or… compost your pumpkins in your backyard, to nourish your garden for next year.
- Add your event to our Community Calendar: email to events@islandsocialtrends.com .
About Halloween:
Originally a Celtic celebration of protecting against evil spirits, Halloween has become a modern celebration for fun and make believe.
Carving jack o lanterns began as a Celtic tradition to scare off evil spirits with the scary faces carved into pumpkins. Today pumpkin-carving is an artistic experience!
Most American Halloween traditions were first inherited from Irish and Scottish immigrants.
Samhain and All Saints Day:
Halloween is short for “hallow’s eve”, the eve of All Saints Day on November 1 which recognizes higher souls that have risen to an afterlife. In Mexico November 2 is celebrated as All Souls Day.
The first night of Samhain, the 31st October, became All Hallows Eve – which morphed into what we know today as Halloween. November 1 is Samhain, a Gaelic festival marking the end of the harvest season and beginning of winter or ‘darker half’ of the year.
Celebrations on October 31 overnight into November 1 acknowledge the time of year when the veil between the physical and spiritual worlds is thinnest.
Astrologically, Halloween night falls on the 10th day of Sun in Scorpio.
