Halloween Halloween is an international holiday celebrated on
Halloween • Halloween, is an international holiday celebrated on October 31. Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, ghost tours, bonfires, costume parties, visiting haunted attractions, carving Jack-o'lanterns, reading scary stories and watching horror movies. Irish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century. Other western countries embraced the holiday in the late twentieth century. Halloween is celebrated in several countries of the Western world, most commonly in the United States, Canada, Ireland, Puerto Rico, Japan, New Zealand, United Kingdom and occasionally in parts of Australia. In Sweden the All Saints' official holiday takes place on the first Saturday of November
DO YOU KNOW THAT? • Halloween (or Hallowe'en) is an annual holiday observed on October 31, which commonly includes activities such as trick-ortreating, attending costume parties, carving jack-o'-lanterns, bonfires, apple bobbing, visiting haunted attractions, playing pranks, telling scary stories, and watching horror films. • 墨西哥人认为,鬼魂和人 一样需要及时行乐,所以 鬼节宛若一场嘉年华会, 人们带着面具到处游走, 吃骷髅形状的糖,面包上 还装饰有鬼的形像。黄昏 时刻,全家人一起到墓园 清理墓地,妇女们或跪或 坐整夜祈祷,男人们交谈 或唱歌,在子夜中烛光忽 闪忽灭充满了整个墓园, 游唱歌者为已逝亡者的灵 魂高歌吟唱。
ACTIVITIES • In the 1800 s, as a lot of people emigrated to the U. S. , the holidays and traditions of different cultures merged. Halloween was not always a happy time. October 31, or the night before took on other names. Some called it Devil's or Hell night, to others it was mischief night. Here in Vermont, the night before is called cabbage night. To some people this became a time to play tricks on others. Some of these tricks were not fun at all. Luckily, community groups and individuals took action and started to change Halloween into a family event. Dressing up in costumes and going ”trick or treating“, costume parades, community parties and Fall festivals are some of the ways that Halloween is celebrated today.
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