Halloween

HALLOWEEN

ORIGINS
Celtic origins
The ancient celtic festivity of Samhain celebrated the end of summer and the beginning of winter. It started the evening of October 31st .

RITUALS
Celtic druids organized
religious rituals.
They believed that ghosts,
witches and evil spirits returned
on the night of October 31st.
They made bonfires and wore frightened costumes to send evil spirits away.

Jack-o-Lanterns
Irish people used to carry turnips with candles inside them to light their way and also to scare off any ghosts.
A miserable man called Jacked tricked with the devil. He was unable to enter heaven or hell after his death, he was destinated to roam the earth listlessly.

Jack placed a piece of coal into carved-out turnip and used it as a lantern to keep the evil away.
Today
Children cut the shape of eyes, nose and mouth in a pumpkin and put a candle inside of it.

TRICK OR TREAT
It originates from Britain and Ireland.
It dates back to Middle Ages when poor people used to go door to door on Hallowmass receiving foor in return for prayers for the dead on All Souls Day.

Today: Children go from door to door knocking and saying `trick or treat´ in exchange for sweets or sometimes money

Halloween activities
Going trick or treating
Visiting haunted houses.
Wearing costumes
Telling ghosts stories
Watching horrors films

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Halloween

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