As the month of October draws to a close , social media recurs and a few decades ago a debate about whether "halloween" is something that should be celebrated in Sweden.

On the one hand stands the phalanx, which is adamant that commercial holidays from the United States should not be celebrated in Sweden, and on the other are the festive parties that welcome a tradition that spikes up in the autumn darkness.

As a writer and writer on the subject of customs and traditions, you are thinking a lot about what is typically Swedish.

I have concluded that Halloween nowadays should in fact be considered a Swedish tradition and that we can definitely pay attention in the country without being ashamed.

Traditional fundamentalists usually argue that the right thing to celebrate at the end of the month of October and November is all Saints 'Day and the Swedish tradition is to light candles on relatives' graves. But then one has to remember that tradition was strongly questioned when it was introduced in Sweden at the middle of last century.

In a Sweden much more marked by Lutheran, voices were raised in the 1940s and 1950s, then to light candles was a "Catholic invention" and that every saint's day could not be a Swedish tradition when the practice of celebrating saints was removed in and with the Reformation.

The similarity to how one argues against Halloween today is striking.

Halloween was introduced in Sweden on a broad front at the beginning of the 1990s and it was definitely the commercial forces behind it.

But the same, we can observe, also applies for example to Valentine's Day, Father's Day, Mother's Day and to a large extent how we celebrate Christmas in Sweden today. And, which is probably more unknown, actually the Halloween celebration as well.

In the early 1900s, the Swedish Trade Gardeners 'Federation lobbied to institute a day in the autumn when people would adorn their relatives' graves.

The Swedish church was not late to be convinced, and during the middle of the century, every saint's day had become the day when one adorned graves, though - as I said - not without resistance.

Celebrating Halloween October 31st (yes, that's the reasonable date to celebrate!) Increased sharply at the end of the last century and was something that is mainly done by children in preschool and school and young people having different types of parties around Halloween.

With a nearly thirty-year presence in Sweden, it is not unreasonable to call Halloween a Swedish tradition.