Editing Halloween (section)

===Spread to North America===
[[File:Halloween Days - The Sunday Oregonian, 1916.jpg|thumb|upright|"Halloween Days", article from American newspaper, ''[[The Sunday Oregonian]]'', 1916]]

[[Lesley Bannatyne]] and Cindy Ott write that [[Anglican]] colonists in the southern United States and [[Catholic]] colonists in [[Maryland]] "recognized All Hallows' Eve in their church calendars",<ref>Ott, Cindy. ''Pumpkin: The Curious History of an American Icon''. University of Washington Press, 2012. p. 42</ref><ref>Bannatyne, p. 45</ref> although the Puritans of [[New England]] strongly opposed the holiday, along with other traditional celebrations of the established Church, including Christmas.<ref>Encyclopaedia Londinensis, or, Universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature, Volume 21 (John Wilkes), R. G. Gunnell and Co., p. 544</ref> [[Almanac]]s of the late 18th and early 19th century give no indication that Halloween was widely celebrated in North America.<ref name="rogers_nw">Rogers, Nicholas. ''Halloween: From Pagan Ritual to Party Night''. [[Oxford University Press]], 2002. pp. 49–50. {{ISBN|0-19-516896-8}}.</ref>

[[File:Weatherly PA Halloween house.jpg|thumb|left|Decorated house in [[Weatherly, Pennsylvania]]]]

It was not until after mass [[Irish diaspora|Irish]] and [[Scottish diaspora|Scottish immigration]] in the 19th century that Halloween became a major holiday in America.<ref name="rogers_nw"/> Most American Halloween traditions were inherited from the Irish and Scots,<ref name="Brunvand, Jan 2006. p.749"/><ref>Santino, Jack. ''All Around the Year: Holidays and Celebrations in American Life''. University of Illinois Press, 1995. p.153</ref> though "In [[Cajun]] areas, a nocturnal Mass was said in cemeteries on Halloween night. Candles that had been blessed were placed on graves, and families sometimes spent the entire night at the graveside".<ref name="Morton2003">{{cite book|last=Morton|first=Lisa|title=The Halloween Encyclopedia|year=2003|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-1524-3|url=https://archive.org/details/halloweenencyclo00mort_0}}</ref> Originally confined to these immigrant communities, it was gradually assimilated into mainstream society and was celebrated coast to coast by people of all social, racial, and religious backgrounds by the early 20th century.<ref name="rogers_nationwide">Rogers, Nicholas. ''Halloween: From Pagan Ritual to Party Night''. Oxford University Press, 2002, p. 74. {{ISBN|0-19-516896-8}}.</ref> Then, through [[Americanization|American influence]], these Halloween traditions spread to many other countries by the late 20th and early 21st century, including to [[Continental Europe|mainland]] Europe and some parts of the [[Far East]].<ref name="Colavito, Jason 2007. pp.151"/><ref name="rogers_m"/><ref>{{Cite web |title=Is Halloween celebrated in Asia? |url=https://www.asiamediacentre.org.nz/features/is-halloween-celebrated-in-asia/ |access-date=2022-10-31 |website=Asia Media Centre {{!}} New Zealand |date=29 October 2020 |archive-date=31 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221031123243/https://www.asiamediacentre.org.nz/features/is-halloween-celebrated-in-asia/ |url-status=live }}</ref>