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": "My favorite holiday is Halloween. I love dressing up for it and going to costume parties."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I think it is cute to see all the kids and the creative costumes they come up with."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It is cute. Even the adults get really into it and costume parties are really popular in the United States."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I love it. I dressed up as Freddy one time."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I have seen a few Freddy costumes. People have been dressing up for halloween since the Celtic festivals of Samhain centuries ago."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I was just wondering where it first started. I see that it has been a round for quite a while."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Samhain is a pretty ancient Gaelic festival which marked the ending of the season for harvesting and the beginning of winter, cold season. "}, {"role": "user", "content": "I see, so it really wasn't anything to scary to begin with. It is so funny how thing change."}]