halloween is my favorite holiday.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Halloween or Hallowe'en (a contraction of All Hallows' Evening), also known as Allhalloween, All Hallows' Eve, or All Saints' Eve, is a celebration observed in a number of countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows' Day. It begins the three-day observance of Allhallowtide, the time in the liturgical year dedicated to remembering the dead, including saints (hallows), martyrs, and all the faithful departed. It is widely believed that many Halloween traditions originated from ancient Celtic harvest festivals, particularly the Gaelic festival Samhain; that such festivals may have had pagan roots; and that Samhain itself was Christianized as Halloween by the early Church. Some believe, however, that Halloween began solely as a Christian holiday, separate from ancient festivals like Samhain. Halloween activities include trick-or-treating (or the related guising), attending Halloween costume parties, carving pumpkins into jack-o'-lanterns, lighting bonfires, apple bobbing, divination games, playing pranks, visiting haunted attractions, telling scary stories, and watching horror films. In many parts of the world, the Christian religious observances of All Hallows' Eve, including attending church services and lighting candles on the graves of the dead, remain popular, although elsewhere it is a more commercial and secular celebration.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Halloween, or All Hallows Eve, will soon be here? What will you dress up as this year??"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I think so. I am not sure what it will be. "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Halloween marks the beginning of Allhallowtide, a 3 day holiday that remembers the dead, martyrs, and the departed."}, {"role": "user", "content": "That does sound scary. How long has halloween been around"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "We believe that Halloween originated as a Celtic tradition, it may have been a harvest festival related to Samhain.  In any case it was a pagan holiday. "}, {"role": "user", "content": "How did it become what it is know as today"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It was Christianized into the holiday we know today."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh ok, there is still people who do not celebrate it because of that I bet?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Here are some Halloween activities for you to put on your calenday: go trick or treating, carve a jack-o-lantern, have a seance, light a bonfire, bob for apples, tell scary stories, play a prank, watch a horror film."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Those all sound fun to me."}]