Halloween has its origins in the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain. Celts believed that on October 31, the boundary between the living and dead became blurred, allowing spirits to pass through. People would wear costumes and masks to imitate evil spirits or appease them. Modern Halloween traditions evolved from Celtic harvest festivals and Christian holidays. Children now go door-to-door seeking treats, wearing costumes of monsters, ghosts, and other supernatural figures to commemorate the dead. Carving pumpkins and exchanging candy have become synonymous with the annual Halloween celebration on October 31st.

1. Iván Vallès
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2. -What is Halloween?
• Halloween is a yearly celebration observed in a number of
countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian
feast of All Hallows' Day. It is the time in the year dedicated to
remembering the dead, including saints (hallows), and all the
faithful departed believers. Within Halloween, the traditional
focus of All Hallows' Eve revolves around the theme of using
"humor and ridicule to confront the power of death."

3. -History and Superstitions
• Halloween has its origins in a Celtic festival known as Samhain,
which is derived from Old Irish and means end of summer. At
Samhain the end of the harvest season in Celtic culture was
celebrated and was considered as the "Celtic New Year", which
began with the dark season.
• The old Celts believed that the line connecting this world with the
Hereafter narrowed with the arrival of Samhain, allowing spirits
(both benevolent and malevolent) pass through. The family's
ancestors were honored guests while evil spirits were away. It is
believed that the use of costumes and masks is because the need to
frighten away the evil spirits. Its purpose was to take the
appearance of an evil spirit to evite being damaged. In Scotland the
spirits were supplanted by young men dressed in white with masks
or face painted black.

4. -Traditions
• The children go through the streets with their pumpkins, knocking at the
doors and when you open the door , children scream "trick or treat, trick
or treat". Tradition demands that the tenant of the house give in to this
blackmail, giving kids all kinds of candies and sweets, making So treatment
(treat) them. If not act in this manner, the delinquent neighbor exposes
the frightening pranks (tricks) of the children dressed as skeletons,
zombies, vampires, mummies or witches.
• The tradition began in Europe in the ninth century, every 2 November All
Souls Day, Christians went from village to village begging "soul cakes"
which were pieces of sweet bread. When more soul cakes received more
promised to pray for the peace of the dead relatives of which gave them
as alms. Over time this custom was merging with the Halloween party to
become another typical feature of celebration.

5. -Few photos of Halloween