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Halloween31st October
Cidália Sousa Cláudia Regina Abreu
Halloween is a very important festivity for English and
American people.
Halloween has its roots in an ancient Celtic festival to
celebrate the end of summer.
The Celts believed that on 31st October the spirits returned to the
earthly world.To avoid being recognised, people wore scary masks when they left their homes during night hours.
Nowadays children love wearing scary costumes.
They dress up as ghosts, bats, vampires, skeletons, witches…
Houses and gardens are decorated with ghosts,
skeletons, pumpkins and other scary things.
Jack O’ Lanterns are the most important symbol at Halloween
and people like cutting pumpkins in many forms.
The Irish have a tale about the origin of Jack O’ Lantern…
Jack was a bad, drunken Irishman who had tricked the devil.
When he died, he was unable to enter Heaven or Hell because of his
bad behaviour. So he had to walk the Earth with his
lantern until Judgement Day.
On Halloween people organise parties at schools, at home and
in streets.
Children knock on people’s doors and say “Trick or treat?”. If they
don’t receive a treat (sweets), they play tricks on them.
Trick or treat ?
Food is very important at Halloween parties so it is very
well decorated.
Watch this Halloween video…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpvdAJYvofI
Happy Hallowee
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