Halloween

WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT HALLOWEEN?

When and where is it celebrated? Haloween it's celebrated on October 31.
 
Why is it celebrated on the 31st October? It's celebrated on the 31st Ocotber because it's the day of the all saints
 
 
Is it a religious celebration? Yes it is


 
What does the word 'Halloween' mean?
 The word hallween means all halows eyes

Name 2 typical games.
Carving turnips as ghoulish faces to hold candles
eating an apple on a string  
bobbing for apples and other gifts in a basin of water, without using your hands. 

When did it become a dangerous celebration?Why?It became a holiday with a lot of vandalism and the trik-or-triking became a kind of extortion.

How do people celebrate it today? Their weare costumes, tirk-or-triking, bonfiers, ghost tours...

HALLOWEEN HISTORY


Halloween (also spelled Hallowe'en) is an annual holiday celebrated on October 31. It has roots in the Celtic festival of Samhain and the Christian holy day of All Saints.

Originally Halloween was a pagan festival, around the idea of linking the living with the dead, when contact became possible between the spirits and the physical world, and magical things were more likely to happen. Like most pagan festivals, long ago it was absorbed into the festivals of the expanding Christian church, and became associated with All Hallows Day, or All Saints Day, which eventually fell on November 1.
The celebration of Halloween survived most strongly in Ireland. It was an end of summer festival, and was often celebrated in each community with a bonfire to ward off the evil spirits. Children would go from door to door in disguise as creatures from the underworld to collect treats, mainly fruit, nuts and the like for the festivities. These were used for playing traditional games like eating an apple on a string or bobbing for apples and other gifts in a basin of water, without using your hands. Salt might be sprinkled on the visiting children to ward off evil spirits. Carving turnips as ghoulish faces to hold candles became a popular part of the festival, which has been adapted to carving pumpkins in America.

The day is often associated with the colours black and orange, and is strongly associated with symbols like the jack-o'-lantern. Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, wearing costumes and attending costume parties, ghost tours, bonfires, visiting haunted attractions, telling scary stories, and watching horror films!!