Wow! The summer is at the mid-way point. Can you believe I ready one of hottest Halloween costumes on pre-order this year is the Barrack Obama costume. Just yesterday, not literary, we were dressing up in colonial outfits and singing Yankee Doodle dandy. Sorry, Do not hold it against me for using the Y word. Now school is right around the corner and there will be dress up for plays in school.

This is going to be a good year for costumes. I mentioned about the popular politician costume, lets not forget the movie characters costumes this year will be Indiana Jones, Hulk, Batman, Iron man, the new mummy movie, and children dressing up as there favorite Panda movie fighters for Halloween.

Halloween originated under the name of Samhain as a Pagan festival among the Celts of Ireland and Great Britain. Irish and Scottish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century.

While you are reading this the term Halloween was shorten many years ago from All-hallow-even, as it is the evening of/before “All Hallows’ Day”, also known as “All Saints’ Day”. It was a day of religious festivities in various northern European Pagan traditions, until Popes Gregory III and Gregory IV moved the old Christian feast of All Saints’ Day from May 13 to November 1. In the ninth century, the Church measured the day as starting at sunset, in accordance with the Florentine calendar. Although All Saints’ or Hallows’ Day is now considered to occur one day after Halloween, the two holidays were at that time celebrated on the same day. The Church traditionally celebrated that day as the Vigil of All Saints. Like other vigils, it was celebrated on the previous day if it fell on a Sunday, although secular celebrations of the holiday remained on the 31st.

Enough history for now, back to current day. For the last several years pirates both girls and guys has been very popular for couples for parties, be pirate day, yes this is party day and of course Halloween.  There are more than 8,000 costumes online from the outfit of CostumeCauldron. All of their costumes can be worn at your favorite parties, your family get together, birthday parties, valentine parties and of course Halloween.

When you browse their website, they have a secret HAUNTED HOUSE backdoor that will enable you to receive a secret discount on your order. For those brave few that take the mission, go to homepage about halfway down the home page on the right and click on the brown comma in the line that reads “Our Store now has over 8,000 masquerade items for you to choose from!”. If you succeed you will get the code. We all like saving money.

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