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ATHENS Corey Graham Black Jersey , April 14 (Xinhua) -- Despite a severe debt crisis, Greeks have seen an increase in the overall spending this year for Orthodox Easter, the most important religious holiday in Greece, which was celebrated on April 12, an investigation of the National Confederation of Greek Commerce showed.


Such costs during Orthodox Easter, which is considered more important than Christmas, include the big traditional Easter meal and presents for the God children Nate Gerry Black Jersey , while a short trip to the countryside to celebrate Easter is also a tradition for most Greeks.


The National Confederation of Greek Commerce estimated that the cost of the traditional Easter meal was 5.23 percent more expensive for the average Greek family this year than in the past. The average meal cost a 5-member family about 104 euros compared to 99 euros in 2014.


This rise was mainly due to the shortage of lambs, which constitute the main and most basic component of an Easter meal in Greece. Because of disease and low temperatures in winter,lambs were fewer this year and their cost rose more than 20 percent, while fruit and vegetables were also more expensive by 18.35 percent.


However, the price of other traditional Easter products like tsoureki cake, eggs and the coloring which is used to dye them red dropped by 14.04 percent, 18.47 percent and 17.97 percent respectively.


The cost for the special Easter candle Destiny Vaeao Black Jersey , the traditional present that god parents buy for their god children to hold at the Resurrection ceremony in church, ranged from 4 to 5 euros for the simple candles to 40 euros for the ones with an attached toy.


Because of the unusually low temperature this year, typical Easter holiday destinations in the islands of the Aegean Sea saw an average 30 percent decrease in bookings, with popular Mykonos island reporting a hotel occupancy of only 60-70 percent and Patmos, an island of religious significance, a mere 50 percent. On the other hand, hotel occupancy in mountain destinations and ski-centers reached 80-90 percent.


In Kalavryta Cameron Johnston Black Jersey , a popular ski-center about 200 km northwest of the capital Athens, the cost for a 4-day all-inclusive holiday for a 4-member family would be around 300 euros, while in some hotels a room for four people cost 100 euros per night, compared to 200 euros last year, and a meal for four people in a local restaurant could cost about 40 euros.


In a show of solidarity to the citizens who are suffering the most because of the economic crisis, an Easter feast was organized by the Ministry of Defense and the Armed forces in the Greek Army's Park in Goudi, an area in east Athens DeAndre Carter Black Jersey , on Easter Sunday, where 3,000 portions of Easter food were distributed to the unemployed and other vulnerable segments of the population.


The event, attended by Defence Minister Panos Kammenos, also included music and dance programs.

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The earliest recorded celebrators of the holiday were the Celts, who lived in what is now Ireland, Northern France, and the United Kingdom 2,000 years ago. Their New Years celebration was on November 1st and was a time when the line between the living and the dead was said to be blurred. The night before, on October 31st, was Samhain DeSean Jackson Black Jersey , pronounced sow-in the night when ghosts returned to the earth to cause trouble.

Celtic priests or Druids built large sacred bonfires on which animals and crops were burned in sacrifice to these spirits and also to Celtic deities. People also wore costumes during these celebrations, and told each others fortunes.

After the Celtic territory was conquered by the Romans, Celtic traditions were incorporated into a Roman holiday, celebrated in late October, known as Feralia, when the passing of the dead was commemorated. Another holiday, celebrated around the same time by the Romans was a day to honor Pomona Nelson Agholor Black Jersey , the Roman goddess of fruit and trees.

The influence of Christianity by the 800s resulted in the designation of November 1st as All Saints Day by Pope Boniface IV, in what some believe was an attempt by the Pope to replace the Celtic festival with a related, church approved holiday. This celebration was also known as All hallows, and the night before it, the traditional night of Samhain, began to be known as All Hallows Eve, or Halloween.

The influx of European immigrants to America meant a varied system of traditions and beliefs surrounding Halloween. In the New England colonies Sidney Jones Black Jersey , celebrations were virtually forbidden, but in Maryland and other Southern colonies, these types of celebrations were fairly common, and included public gatherings when people would tell fortunes, dance, sing, and tell stories about the dead.

By the second half of the nineteenth century Derek Barnett Black Jersey , new immigrants brought the tradition of going from house to house to ask for food and money, which is where the tradition of trick or treat originated. By the 1920s and 1930s, Halloween had become secularized and focused on community and less on ghosts and witchcraft. Between 1920 and 1950, trick or treating was also revived as a way to curb the vandalism that was prevalent on Halloween in many communities. Providing neighborhood children with treats was seen as an effective way to prevent this vandalism.

Today, Halloween is one of the most popular holidays of the year, incorporating ancient traditions of costumes and ghost stories with the more modern traditions.

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