the most accepted historcal reason for dressing up relates back to the celtic celebration mentioned in yesterday’s post. some people will say that the celts dressed up in order to scare off the spirits that were allowed to cross through into the world of the living and thus save their own souls from posession by another spirit (read here). others will say that they dressed up to confuse the spirits so that no harm would come to themselves (read here) a slightly different take on the story here says that people dressed up so that they could be closer to the spirits.
I think people dress up because they have had too many “spirits”. hehehe