Atividade Halloween
Atividade Halloween
Atividade Halloween
PROPOSTA INTERCULTURAL
Folhas de atividades relacionadas ao texto 1 (sobre o o Halloween)
Halloween is celebrated by the follo- 3. Sublinhe no texto algumas travessuras que o Saci costuma fazer. Existem se-
wing peoples: melhanças entre elas e aquelas que as crianças americanas fazem no Halloween?
• Brazilians
• …….. 4. O Saci é considerado uma criatura malvada?
• ……..
Fonte: Folhas de atividades preparadas pelos professores Clarissa Menezes Jordão e Francisco Carlos Fogaça, ambos docentes do Departamento de Letras Estrangeiras Modernas
da Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR). Este material complementa a atividade divulgada na seção “Sala de aula” da revista Profissão Mestre nº 144, de setembro de 2011.
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Texto 2 (sobre o Saci)
Saci is a very popular entity of Brazilian
folklore. Black people, mestizos and the
Tupi-guarani people gave him his origi-
nal name by the end of the eighteenth
century. In many Brazilian regions, Saci
is considered a very playful being, who
likes hiding household objects, frighte-
ning animals, whistling in people’s ears
and making a complete mess of kitchens;
while in other places he is seen as a plain-
ly malevolent figure.
He is a young black boy with just one
leg, who smokes a pipe and wears a red
cap which gives him magical powers, like
the power to appear and disappear whe-
never he wants to. He likes frightening
travelers and lonely hunters in the woods.
Texto 1 (sobre o Halloween) He also likes hiding children’s toys,
Halloween is a celebration that is about 2000 years old and is ba-
setting free the cattle held in the cor-
sed on a Celtic festival which occurred each year at the end of har-
rals, spilling salt inside kitchens and, on
vest on October 31. It was one of the major festivals of the Celtic
full-moon nights, he likes riding a horse
year. Bon fires were lit in honor of the dead and to keep them
and crossing fields making a lot of noise.
away from the living. The Celts believed the veil between the li-
According to popular belief, inside each
ving and the dead became thin at this time and the dead could
small whirlwind there is a Saci.
bring illness or poor crops if not distracted. Dressing in costumes
Fonte: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/11/01/
and masks to mimic the dead was believed to distract them from brazilian-myths-and-haunts-on-the-lusosphere-part-3/
causing harm and prevent them for recognizing the person wea-
ring the costume.
The holiday was thought to be brought to America by Scottish
and Irish immigrants. In these countries the carved pumpkin was
actually a carved turnip or rutabaga! It was only in America whe-
re Pumpkins were plentiful that pumpkins began to be used as
Jack-o-Lanterns.
The tradition of the Jack-o-Lantern is based on the Irish myth
of Stingy Jack. As the story is told, Stingy Jack tricked the devil
and in retribution the devil condemned him to wander the earth
in darkness. Ever since that day, according to the myth, he has ro-
amed the earth trapped between heaven and hell. The tradition of
carving pumpkins and placing candles inside was thought to keep
evil spirits and Stingy Jack away. The name Halloween is a shorte-
ned version of All Hallows Even, another name for All Saints Day.
In the Christian tradition All Saints Day is a day to honor the de-
ad that have gone to heaven. The Celts believed their departed de-
ad did not really die but went to another place different from the
living world but still in contact with it especially on this festival
when the veil between the two worlds was felt to be thin.
In the USA, American children go from door to door in their
neighborhood asking for treats (candies and sweets) by saying
“trick or treat”. If people refuse to give them treats, they play so-
me tricks on them. For example, they rub soap bars on car windo-
ws, adorn trees and gardens with toilet paper, throw eggs at hou-
ses or ring the doorbell and run away. Children usually wear some
Halloween costume – witches, ghosts, and so on.
Fonte: Adapted from www.bukisa.com/articles/149417_halloween-facts-and-history
and www.wikipedia.org