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Carve your pumpkin
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HALLOWEEN
Halloween goes back to Celtic times.
The Celts celebrated their New Year's.
Eve on 31st October and New Year's on 1st November.
They built bonfires to keep away evil spirits and bring confort to soul to purgatory.
The Romans turned the night ot 31st October into Halloween.
Halloween as we know it today is celebrated by many people specially in USA and Britain.
This costum has moved to other parts of the world because of people moving to other countries.
Both childrem and adults put on their costumes .
Adults go to parties and children go trick or trating with their parents or friends.
Pumpkins are believed to have originated in North America.
The "pumpkin
capital" of the world is Morton, Illinois.
The Irish brought
this tradition of pumpkin carving to America.
The largest pumpkin ever grown weighed 1,140 pounds.
Pumpkins are 90 percent water.
Carving a pumpkin into a Jack-O'-Lantern, is very easy and only takes a
few basic tools. A large spoon or ice-cream scoop, a thin bladed knife and
some newspaper will get you started.
A Jack-O`-Lantern is a carved pumpkin with a candle inside.
The Irish brought the tradition of carving pumpkins into Jack O'Lantern
to America.
Jack O'Lantern legend goes back hundreds of years in Irish History.
The history of "Trick'O'Treating" can be traced back to the
early celebrations of All Soul's Day in Britain. The poor would go begging and
the housewives would give them special treats called "soulcakes"
The tradition of dressing in costume for Halloween has both European and
Celtic roots. On Halloween, when it was believed that ghosts came back to the
earthly world, people thought that they would encounter ghosts if they left
their homes. To avoid being recognized by these ghosts, people would wear masks
when they left their homes after dark so that the ghosts would mistake them for
fellow spirits.
In Mexico, Latin
America and Spain, All Souls' Day, which takes place on November 2. The
celebration is designed to honor the dead who, it is believed, return to their
earthly homes on Halloween.
Many families construct an altar to the dead in their homes to honor deceased
relatives and decorate it with candy, flowers, photographs.
