Halloween originated over 3000 years ago when the Celtic people in Europe celebrated the end of the harvest season with festivals such as Samhain. As European immigrants brought Halloween traditions to America in the 1800s, the holiday evolved into focusing more on costumes, parties, and sweets for children. The tradition of trick-or-treating is believed to have derived from an early Christian practice of going door-to-door begging for food on All Souls Day. Carving and lighting jack-o-lanterns also became symbols of Halloween, originating from an Irish legend about a man named Jack.

1. Halloween
By:
Yeni Jardon
Edson Durán

2. Origin
• What we now know as Halloween is celebrated make over 3000 years by the
Celts , a warrior people who inhabited parts of Ireland , England, Scotland
and France. With European immigration to the United States , mainly of
Irish Catholics in 1846 , came the tradition of Halloween to America . When
speaking of Halloween you think of costumes, makeup , party , sweets and
children; but tradition states that its conclusion was not always festive and
cheerful, and that the rites that were practiced during the night had a
purifying and religious.

3. What it means?
• When Emperor Constantine decreed that the inhabitants of his empire to convert
to Christianity, many pagan rites were introduced. That was how the festival of
Samhain infiltrated .
• By the eighth century , the Christian Church became the 1st of November at the All
Saints Day to honor all the saints who did not have a particular day of celebration.
Throughout the years, these festivals were combined, and most called "All
Hallowmas " to All Saints Day . The night before was known as "All Hallows Eve"
( Eve of All Saints Day ) . Over time, his name became Halloween.

4. Why do we dress up?
• Fearing for their souls, the Celts would extinguish all the lights in their
houses, dress up in ghoulish costumes, and reek havoc on the town to scare
the spirits away

5. Trick or Treat
Before
• The custom of trick or treating door to door
( trick- or-treating ) became popular around
1930 It is believed , not the Celtic culture but
derives from a practice that emerged in
Europe during the ninth century called
souling back , a kind of service to souls . On
November 2 , All Souls Day , early Christians
were going from village to village begging for
" cakes deceased " ( soul cakes) , which were
pieces of bread with raisins.
Now
• Children and those who are not so
disguised , while competing with each
other to see which is the most horrific
of all disguise, and go from house to
house giving the famous ultimatum
"trick or treat" ( trick or treating ) .
Know the origin and meaning of this
famous expression , certainly a favorite
among children on Halloween night .

6. Jack O´Lantern
Before
• Pumpkin is not a proper symbol of
Halloween or Samhain primitive
celebrating Celtic peoples of Europe. Irish
emigrants discovered the pumpkin (
pumpkin ) to arrive as colonists to
America. To know the origin of this
symbolic fruit night of the witches and
their use as terrifying lamp, you have to
know the legend of Jack or Jack -o -
lantern , as cited above..
now
• Today, on Halloween night American
children dress up and go from house
to house with a candle inserted into a
previously emptied pumpkin. When
the doors of the houses these shout "
trick or treat" ( trick or treating ) to
imply that spend a joke who do not
give them a kind of bonus, open candy
or money