Presentation

1. HALLOWEEN
HISTORY

2. ON OCTOBER 31ST AMERICAN
CELEBRATE HALLOWEEN

3. HALLOWEEN MEANS
HOLY (HALLOW)
EVENING (EEN)

4. HALLOWEEN EVENING
IS ON OCTOBER 31ST
AND CHRISTIAN HOLY
DAY OF ALL SAINTS
DAY IN ON NOVEMBER
1ST.
HALLOWEEN
TRADITION IS OLDER
THAN CHRISTIANITY.

5. BEFORE CHRISTIANITY
• People in Europe believed
that on October 31st,
ghosts and spirits of dead
people came back.
• So, to scare the ghosts
people dressed like demons.
• Later, people adopted it as a
party celebration.

6. WHEN EUROPEAN INMIGRATED TO THE
U.S.A. THEY BROUGHT THIS TRADITION.

7. SOME ACTIVITIES PEOPLE DO AT HALLOWEEN TIME:
People wear customes. Other people watch Horror Films.
Mostly kids ask for sweets. People prepare Halloween parties.