We'd call it "All Saints Day", 1st November, but as a special day it's unknown in Australia. We barely celebrate Hallowe'en, ie. the evening (e'en) before the holy (hallowed) day. "Hallowmas" is a very archaic word, you might find people confuse it with Hallowe'en anyway. Here in Slovakia, it's a public holiday! So tomorrow families will gather in their home towns, go to church to pray for their ancestors, then visit the graves to leave lanterns and flowers. They sell a *lot* of grave-candles here in the supermarkets. It seems that remembering your ancestors is very important to the Slovaks: I visited the local cemetery today and there were people everywhere... err, living people I mean.

Hallowmas is also known as "All Saints' Day," a religious celebration for the dead in some Christian religions. It's celebrated in different ways depending on the culture. A lot more here: http://allsaintsday.org/ and here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Saints

Hallowmas - a Christian feast day honoring all the saints; first observed in 835 HALLOWMAS was a weekend long festival of Gothic music and events which took place in Toronto during Hallowe'en weekend, 1999. It was put together by three organizers of the extremely successful Convergence 4 net.goth festival (held in August, 1998), and drew attendees from throughout Canada, the U.S. and the world.

There is no such thing as Hallowmas.

Halloween in some places came to be because on that night they said the spirits of the day could roam the earth and so they dressed up to frighten away the spirits much much later they commercialized it with children getting candy. It was a day where they would also have fortune telling done as the spirits roams the earth they hoped to get answers from the dead.