Halloween

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Halloween

• The scary celebration!!!!

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Some words about Halloween

• Halloween is celebrated by Americans on October
  31, although countries all over the world
  celebrate Halloween or a form of it. Christian
  churches may celebrate All Hallows Day or All
  Saints Day.

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• The celebration is marked by dressing up in
  costumes and trick-or-treating and carnival style
  events characterized by spooky elements such as
  ghosts.

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The traditions of Halloween are largely adopted
from horror stories and gothic worksghosts,
vampires, other monsters, haunted houses,
skeletons.
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The original source of Halloween is believed to
be an ancient tradition, although many believe
the Christian celebrations came first. These
festivals often honored gods of fruits, such as
the Roman Pomona.
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There were several legends associated with
Halloween due to the believed opening of the
underworld The body parts of those who had died
since the last Halloween would become alive and
enter the living. This is why many people would
make their house very cold so that spirits would
not come in.
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Jack-o-lanterns were carved to light nighttime
paths and protect from evil spirits. The carved
pumpkin's name comes from the legend that a boy
named Jack paraded through the town with a
pumpkin in which he'd trapped the devil. The
devil curses Jack upon his release and makes him
to spend forever in hell. When the gates open on
Halloween, Jack would escape hell. The
Jack-o-Lanterns were supposed to trick Jack into
thinking it held the devil, scaring him off.
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• Halloween also borrows elements from the
  Christian tradition. The name comes from All
  Hallows Eve, the day that Christians spent
  honoring the dead and the saints.

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Traditions

• Trick-or-Treating is the practice of children
  dressing up in costume to ring doorbells for
  candy. When the door opens, they will say, "Trick
  or treat? Give me something good to eat," which
  is sometimes followed by, "if you don't, I don't
  care, I'll pull down your underwear!"

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Some children nowadays may choose to collect for
charity, such as the UNICEF coin boxes that
observers can donate change into as the child
collects candy.
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• Children will often dress in a traditional
  Halloween costume, such as a witch or a ghost.
  These days, however, they may choose instead to
  dress of as a fictional or real figure they
  admire. For example, they may choose to select
  figures like Batman and Superman rather than
  something evil .

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Many groups, especially children, will tell ghost
stories on Halloween.
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• Making and eating candied apples is popular.
  Apples are harvested right before Halloween.

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Especially Irish-Americans, observers may eat a
type of fruit cake containing a coin. Those who
received the piece with the coin were given good
luck for the rest of the year
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Halloween Pranks

• In America people use to do some amazing prep
  work for Halloween. People leave eggs to rot for
  weeks in advance , they buy rolls of toilet
  paper, cans of shaving cream, make lists of evil
  neighbors and plan to be up all night if needed
  to get their prank on.

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN