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HALOWEEN ORIGINS
What we know today as Halloween or Halloween is celebrated make over 3000 years by the
Celts, a warrior people who inhabited areas of Ireland, England, Scotland and France.
Precisely October 31, Celts celebrated the new year with Samhain, a pagan festival. With
European immigration to the United States, mainly of Irish Catholics in 1846, came the
tradition of Halloween to America. When talking about Halloween or Day of the Witches
thinking about costumes, makeup, party, sweets and children, but tradition states that its
conclusion was not always festive and cheerful, and that the rites that were practiced during
the night they had a character and religious cleansing.
HALLOWEEN IN UNITED KINGDOM
In this country, the festival takes place on October
31, as is happening in the United States. During the
night of All Souls two well-known festivals, the feast
of Samhain (in Ireland) and Pomona Day (day of the
goddess of fruits and gardens) are combined. During
the festivities smaller masquerade as something
terrifying, children of England, like Scotland should
win the gift through different games.
HALLOWEEN IN USA
A truly American holiday, Halloween always falls
on October 31, and is the time when the young and
young-at-heart don costumes, troll for treats, and go
in search of spooky activities, such as touring
haunted houses and cemeteries.Halloween festivities
are celebrated in many different ways in cities and
towns across the United States, ranging from family-
friendly trick-or-treating to adults-only costume
parties
SUPERSTITIONS
Bats: if you see a bat flying around your house your
house is haunted
Black cats: if you see a black cat Halloween night
means that a witch is close, because cats are
companions of witches
Pumpkin lamps: pumpkins with candles inside were
used to guide the spirits of the family at home.