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Halloween costumes are costumes worn in the region of or on the subject of Halloween, a festival which falls not in the disaffect away off from October 31. An to the front suggestion to wearing costumes at Halloween comes from Scotland in 1585, but they may pre-date this. There are many references to the custom during the 18th and 19th centuries in the Celtic countries of Scotland, Ireland, Mann and Wales. It has been suggested that the custom comes from the Celtic festivals of Samhain and Calan Gaeaf, or from the practise of "souling" at Hallowtide. Wearing costumes and mumming has long been associated furthermore festivals at new time of the year, such as upon Christmas Halloween costumes are traditionally based upon frightening supernatural or folkloric beings. However, by the 1930s costumes based upon characters in layer media such as film, literature, and radio were popular. Halloween costumes have tended to be worn mainly by youthful people, but by now the mid-20th century they have been increasingly worn by adults moreover.

The wearing of costumes at Halloween may come from the belief that supernatural beings, or the souls of the dead, roamed the earth at this period.

The practice may have originated in a Celtic festival, held upon October 31 to November 1, to mark the arrival of winter. It was called Samhain in Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man, and Calan Gaeaf in Wales, Cornwall and Brittany. The festival is believed to have pre-Christian roots. After the Christianization of Ireland in the 5th century, some of these customs may have been retained in the Christian sticking to of All Hallows' Eve in that region which continued to be called Samhain/Calan Gaeaf blending the traditions of their ancestors as soon as Christian ones.