Halloween 2009 Costumes and accessories

Introducing a great range of Halloween fancy dress Costumes and Accessories from Hen and Stag party.com

We are proud to present this fantastic range of halloween fancy dress items with some of the creepiest and sexiest costume ideas for hen or stag parties or just for a good Halloween night out. (or in!!)

From devils horns for the horny to Cloaks for those of you who don't fear the grim reaper we feel we offer a complete range of halloween items for all.

We are Based in Cardiff and you can visit our retail premises at 193/195 Penarth Road, Cardiff, CF11 6FR Between 10.30am - 5.30pm Monday to Friday. But please come early to avoid dissapointment for your Cardiff Halloween party.

Hallowe'en, or Halloween, is a holiday celebrated on the night of October 31. Traditional activities include trick-or-treating, costume parties, viewing horror films or visiting spooky haunted houses situated around Cardiff or even anywhere in Great Britain.

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. Other western countries have embraced the holiday as a part of American pop culture in the late twentieth century.

Halloween is now celebrated in parts of the western world, most commonly in Ireland, the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, the United Kingdom and sometimes in Australia and New Zealand. In recent years, the holiday has also been celebrated in parts of Western Europe.

The term Halloween (and its older rendering Hallowe'en) is shortened 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 13th to November 1. In the ninth century, the Church measured the day as starting at sunset, in accordance with the Florentine calendar. Although we now consider All Saints' (or Hallows') Day to occur one day after Halloween, the two holidays were, at that time, celebrated on the same day. Liturgically, the Church traditionally celebrated that day as the Vigil of All Saints, and, until 1970, a day of fasting as well. 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. The Vigil was suppressed in 1955, but was later restored in the post-Vatican II calendar.