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HALLOWEEN
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1. Halloween is one of the oldest festivals in
Great Britain. 2. Halloween is celebrated on
October 31st.3. The full name of the festival is
All Hallows Eve.4. About 99 of pumpkins sold
in Britain are used as lamps at Halloween.
4 IMPORTANT FACTS ABOUT HALLOWEEN
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THE HISTORY

• Everything started a very long time ago, in
  the 5th century, in the place where today is
  Great Britain and Northern France. At that time
  the Celts lived there and they celebrated New
  Year with a festival called Samhain on November
  1st. It was a holiday of the end of the Sun
  Season and the start of the Dark and Cold
  Season. People made lamps of pumpkins and
  candles and said These lamps help the sun to
  live in winter.

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THE HISTORY

• In the year 835 the Roman Catholic Church made
  November 1st a church holiday of all saints who
  do not have a special day in the year. This
  holiday was called All Saints Day or All
  Hallows Day. People started to celebrate
  another holiday on October 31st All Hallows
  Eve (the night before All Hallows Day). Now we
  call this festival Halloween.

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BELIEFS

• People strongly believed that Halloween is
  the night when communication between the worlds
  of the living and the dead can be. Dead people
  visit our world as witches, goblins, ghosts,
  black cats and skeletons.

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TRADITIONS

• Jack-o-lanterns pumpkins with lighted
  candles inside which were used to frighten away
  evil spirits. According to an Irish legend a man
  called Jack cant enter neither heaven nor hell.
  So instead, he has to walk in the darkness with
  his lantern until Judgment Day. Many years ago
  people used
• apples and potatoes in making
• lanterns. Now all over the world
• pumpkins are used.

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TRADITIONS

• Costumes on Halloween people wore masks and
  costumes when they left homes after dark so that
  the ghosts would mistake them for other evil
  spirits. The most popular costumes nowadays are
  ghosts, witches and skeletons. The colours of
  Halloween are orange ( the colour of harvest)
  and black ( the colour of death and darkness).

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TRADITIONS

• Trick-or-Treat many years ago to keep ghosts
  and witches away from their houses on Halloween,
  people placed plates of food outside their homes
  to appease all evil spirits. And now British
  children put on their costumes and from door to
  door in the evening saying Trick or
  Treat.And people give them chocolate and
  sweets.