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    The origins of Halloween date back to ancient Celtic traditions in Ireland over 2,500 years ago, where people would dress in costumes and make noise to frighten away spirits returning on the new year. Later, the Catholic Church designated November 1 as All Saints' Day and the night before as All Hallows' Eve, which became Halloween. Irish immigrants brought traditions like carving turnips and pumpkins into jack-o'-lanterns to America. Today, children dress in costumes and go door-to-door saying "trick or treat" to receive candy, and Halloween parties often involve telling scary stories.

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    Lektion-Se 13894 Microsoft Word - Halloween Chapter

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    The origins of Halloween date back to ancient Celtic traditions in Ireland over 2,500 years ago, where people would dress in costumes and make noise to frighten away spirits returning on the new year. Later, the Catholic Church designated November 1 as All Saints' Day and the night before as All Hallows' Eve, which became Halloween. Irish immigrants brought traditions like carving turnips and pumpkins into jack-o'-lanterns to America. Today, children dress in costumes and go door-to-door saying "trick or treat" to receive candy, and Halloween parties often involve telling scary stories.

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    The origins of Halloween date back to ancient Celtic traditions in Ireland over 2,500 years ago, where people would dress in costumes and make noise to frighten away spirits returning on the new year. Later, the Catholic Church designated November 1 as All Saints' Day and the night before as All Hallows' Eve, which became Halloween. Irish immigrants brought traditions like carving turnips and pumpkins into jack-o'-lanterns to America. Today, children dress in costumes and go door-to-door saying "trick or treat" to receive candy, and Halloween parties often involve telling scary stories.

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    Lektion-Se 13894 Microsoft Word - Halloween Chapter

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    The origins of Halloween date back to ancient Celtic traditions in Ireland over 2,500 years ago, where people would dress in costumes and make noise to frighten away spirits returning on the new year. Later, the Catholic Church designated November 1 as All Saints' Day and the night before as All Hallows' Eve, which became Halloween. Irish immigrants brought traditions like carving turnips and pumpkins into jack-o'-lanterns to America. Today, children dress in costumes and go door-to-door saying "trick or treat" to receive candy, and Halloween parties often involve telling scary stories.

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    Halloween

    The Celts

    About 2500 years ago in Ireland there lived


    the Celts. When summer ended and they had
    brought the last of their food in for the winter,
    they had a holiday. This was also the
    beginning of their new year. They believed
    that the dead would come alive on that day
    and that their ghosts would come around and
    look for a new body to live in. So people used
    to dress up in ugly and horrifying clothes and
    walk around their houses making a lot of noise to frighten the spirits
    away. They would also leave food out for the spirits so that they wouldn’t
    get angry and just leave the village peacefully.

    The Catholics

    A lot later the Catholic Church started calling November 1st All Hallows’
    Day, which means All Saints’ Day, and the night before was called All
    Hallows Eve. That’s how we got the word Halloween, which is still
    celebrated on the 31st of October every year.

    Jack-o-lanterns

    In Ireland people told a legend of a man named Jack, who was so wicked
    that he was not allowed into heaven when he died. Neither was he
    allowed into hell, because he had once tricked the Devil into a tree. His
    spirit was wandering around carrying a hollowed-out turnip with some
    light in so he could see where he was going. That is why the Irish made
    turnips look like scary faces and put a candle inside. These are called
    Jack-o-lanterns.
    Pumpkins

    In the 1840’s a lot of Irish people moved to America, because there


    wasn’t enough food for them in Ireland. When it was time for Halloween,
    there weren’t any turnips to make Jack-o-lanterns of, so they started using
    the large orange pumpkins instead. Pumpkins have become a symbol of
    Halloween and orange the traditional Halloween colour - apart from
    black, of course.

    “Trick or Treats”

    The Celtic tradition of giving food to the


    spirits has turned into a common children’s
    game at Halloween. Especially American
    children dress up as ghosts and witches and
    go around knocking on their neighbours’
    doors yelling “trick or treat” as soon as the
    door opens. If they don’t get any treat, like
    candy or money, they will play a trick on the
    owners of the house. They might turn over some garbage cans; let the air
    out of bike tyres or “tp” the whole house. (“Tp” is short for “toilet paper”.
    This means that they roll out toilet paper all around the garden.)

    Scary stories

    No Halloween party is complete without a scary story. They are told in


    the eerie light of a single candle and speaking in a low, creepy voice. The
    listeners are holding their breaths waiting for the spooky ending, although
    it’s not uncommon that they are being tricked into a final scare or a shriek
    to make everybody jump and then laugh away the terror from their
    bodies.
    Over the Graveyard
    Over the graveyard and through the tombs,
    To the haunted house we go.
    The ghosts are a fright,
    This spooky night
    So come and join the show.

    Over the graveyard and through the tombs,


    Just hear the dreadful cries,
    The banshees howl,
    The black cats yowl,
    Their shrieking fills the skies.

    Over the graveyard and through the tombs


    Where all the goblins meet,
    Witches and ghouls,
    They are no fools,
    They all yell, “Trick or Treat.”

    Over the graveyard and through the tombs


    The jack-o-lanterns gleam.
    Bats fill the skies,
    With glowing eyes,
    Hooray! It’s Halloween!

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