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A Short End-of-Year Message – 2023

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As we get nearer to the end of 2023, the staff at PremiumCompatibles agree that the last blog of 2023 should be straight from the heart. We concluded that the following should be a brief recap and look back at this year and its events. However, this blog should be a small glimpse into the future year ahead of us – 2024.

            It’s almost unbelievable that the year is over so soon. Just moments ago, we saw the end of 2022, which we remember as the time during which Covid-19 posed a threat to us. 2023 was a fresh, post-pandemic start with a new outlook on life. Throughout this year, we observed important world events take place – from natural disasters, celebrations and festivities to political elections and shifts in views around the world. Whether you look back at this year as good or bad, no one can deny that this year has plenty of examples of positive human traits – solidarity, kindness, love, endurance and heroism. In spite of all the hardship, negativity and problems people around the globe encountered, there were still people capable of good.

            This was a big year for all of us. Although it may seem at times that life is moving too slow or too fast and even if it may seem like little progress has been made in life, we move forward and will continue to do so.

            PremiumCompatibles would like to thank all of its customers, visitors and audiences throughout the world for being a part of our journey. We wish you happiness and peace for the rest of this year, next year and the many years to come. See you next year!

PremiumCompatibles would like to thank all of its customers, visitors and audiences throughout the world for being a part of our journey. We wish you happiness and peace for the rest of this year, next year and the many years to come. See you next year!

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Some Spooktacular Halloween History!

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Tomorrow’s Halloween, the one day a year where you can wear the scariest or silliest costumes outside and look (fairly) normal! Many people celebrate Halloween, but not a lot know about the origins of the fun celebration. Why do we celebrate Halloween? How did the fun traditions we know today evolve over time? And why is it even called Halloween? Read more to find out!

So, what are the origins on Halloween?

Halloween’s origins date back to an ancient festival celebrated by the Celts (the largest single group of these people were from Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Cornwall) over 2,000 years ago called “Samhain”, according the The World Book Encyclopedia. During this celebratory time, the Celts believed the dead would walk among the living and visiting the deceased was possible.

How did costumes, candy and trick-or-treating come about?

Some sources claim that the Celtic people would often wear ghoulish costumes to keep spirits away, making them mistake them for other spirits, while other Celts offered spirits sweets.

A witch on a broomstick, flying away from a big, crooked house during a full moon and fog.

During the medieval period, the Catholic Church (despite it conflicting with Bible teachings) adopted these pagan customs and church members went from house to house wearing costumes and asking for small gifts. Creatures like ghosts, vampires, werewolves, witches or zombies are popular costumes to wear, since they’re all connected to evil, the spirit world or the supernatural.

A Pumpkin Jack-O'-Lantern glowing in the foreground with a graveyard full of crosses in the background and a creepy mansion lit up behind it.

Halloween Jack-O’-Lanterns originated in medieval Britain, where dressed-up halloween celebrators would go door-to-door asking for food in return for prayer for the dead and a hollowed out turnip with a candle inside, representing a soul in a purgatory. According to some sources, these lanterns warded off evil spirits. In 1800’s America, more available and easy to carve pumpkins replaced turnips, and that’s how Jack-O’-Lanterns came to be.

A glowing pumpkin Jack-O'-Lantern

Why do we call it ‘Halloween’?

Samhain, the Celtic festival which halloween originates from, means “summer’s end”. It marked the start of the dark winter season and was celebrated around 1st November. Around the years 700-800 A.D. the Christian Church established All Saints’ Day, also called All Hallows’ (also meaning “saint” or “one who is holy”). The evening before this event was known as All Hallows’ Eve or, when abbreviated, All Hallow’een, later becoming the celebration we know today as “Halloween”.

6 seperate images of Halloween-related things: a crooked, dark house, a witches hat, a green zombie hand reaching out from the ground beneath, a bat, a carved pumpking Jack-O'-Lantern and a black cat.

The history of this annual tradition is really interesting, especially considering that it’s over 2,000 years old! Halloween is an old celebration with a seriously spooky origin story.

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