Halloween is a Celtic holiday celebrated on October 31st where people wear costumes and go door-to-door receiving candy. The holiday originated over 2,500 years ago when the Celts believed spirits walked the earth on the day the new year started. Traditionally, Celts would decorate their homes with bones and skulls to ward off spirits. Now, Halloween is widely celebrated in countries like the US and Colombia, where people hold parties in costumes and engage in traditions like trick-or-treating. Common Halloween symbols include pumpkins, black cats, owls, and vampires.

1. Halloween
María Charity Katherine
Betancourt Gallego
Grade 9-4

2. • Halloween, also known as Day Night witches
or witch, is a Celtic festival held on the evening
of October 31, particularly in English-speaking
countries such as Canada, USA, Ireland and
the UK and to a lesser extent in Chile,
Colombia, Mexico, Peru or Latin America
overall, and in much of Spain. Despite being
truly speaking countries, in Australia and New
Zealand is not seen as much as in other
countries.

4. A little history:
• The history of Halloween goes back more than 2,500
years ago when the Celtic year ended at the end of the
summer , on the day 31 October in our calendar. Cattle
were the meadows led to the stables for the winter. That
last day , it was assumed that the spirits could come out
of the graveyard and take over the bodies of the living to
resurrect . To avoid this, the Celtic villages littered houses
and " decorated " with bones, skulls and other nasty stuff
, so spend long dead scared. Hence the tradition of
decorating houses with sinister motives in the current eve
of All Saints and also costumes .

5. Halloween in Colombia
• In Colombia there are other more tradition and
more than 30 years ago that began to popularize
the party. It is said that the film was John
Carpenter's "Halloween," which this festival
gained popularity among Colombians. Some very
religious Colombians think this satanic holiday
and offensive but many enjoy going to parties
dressed. But there is an unwritten rule about
costumes: you should not hide your face or alter
your appearance too since the transformation
can scare others who might mistake you for a
crook.

6. Halloween in United States
• In the United States, Halloween is lived intensely.
Because of the large number of films that have
been set on this date, have become very popular
worldwide customs of this country to celebrate
this holiday.
Halloween is a holiday that is usually celebrated
with friends or family. In some parts of the
country, including events that bring the whole
community are organized. However, in general,
the celebrations vary according to the age of
people.

7. Traditions and symbols
Really the origin of
pumpkins were turnips,
which were emptied to
introduce an ember inside
it, and light the way to the
spirits who came to earth
that night and so find their
way home to their families
and neighbors.
The pumpkin

8. If the cat was considered a
symbol of divinity among the
Egyptians, Celts, however,
developed a particular fear of
this mythical animal, they
believed that black cats were
feline way that some demonic
power had become a person,
ie people cats were damn.
The black cats

9. The owl
Symbol of darkness.
Sorcerers use sound to
scare this animal
according to them, the
powers of darkness.
They have their image
as a good luck charm.

10. The toad
It was one of the
plagues sent by God on
the Egyptian people,
because they
considered sacred and
worshiped.

11. The vampires
• At the time of the
Druids demons were
represented by this
figure. Then you know
all the Dracula
mythology and
chupacuellos.

12. Half moon and stars
• Used in occult
practices, witchcraft,
magic and symbols
adopted by the "new
age" according to them
we are in the era of
"aquarium" (astrology,
belief in the stars).

13. Trick or treat
• The 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"

14. The sweets
• Another deeply rooted in
Halloween is to order and eat
sweets. Apparently the
tradition began in Europe in
the ninth century when, every
November 2 (All Souls Day),
Christians went from village to
village begging for "soul
cakes" which were pieces of
sweet bread. The more "soul
cakes" received more
promised to pray for the
peace of the dead relatives of
those who gave them such
alms. Over time this custom
was merging with the
Halloween party to become
another typical feature of the
celebration.

15. The costumes