Halloween by Rosina & Valentina

Halloween DAY OF DEAD PEOPLE

This celebration comes from the Celtic culture, but nowadays it is celebrated principally in The United States during the night of October 31st. Children walk along the streets asking for sweets from door to door, and they say "Trick or treat". If the adults give them candies, money or any other type of gift, it is interpreted that they have accepted the deal. If on the contrary they refuse, the children make a small joke, Halloween has its origin English expression All Hallow's Eve on (Eve of the Day of the Saints).

The Druids were taking with them a great hollow turnip with which they made a face in the frontal part, this was to represent the devilish spirit on which they were depending to obtain power and knowledge. This spirit is called a family spirit. The name given to the spirit that was living in the turnip was "Jock" and when coming to America it changed to "Jack" who lives in the lantern. All that came up from the United States

If the cat was considered to be a symbol of the divinity among the Egyptians; the Celts, on the contrary, developed a particular fear of this mythical animal, since they believed that the black cat was the feline form into which some devilish power had transformed to a person, that is to say, cats were damned persons. It is said that the body of the black cat is just the form that the witches use to walk calmly by the city unnoticed. Because of it, one of Halloween's traditions is that if a black cat crosses ahead in this night, the bad luck will fall down without remedy on your head. Without remedy? Noooo!, there is an antidote: when it happens to you, you have to give immediately seven steps backward and curse!

Halloween by Rosina & Valentina

by anasuarez on Jan 01, 2008

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