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Halloween. What is Halloween?. Halloween is a night of fantasy and mystery where there is remembered and represents everything related to the world of the dead men and the phenomenon in yes of the death. Origin. The holiday that
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What is Halloween? • Halloween is a night of fantasy and mystery where there is remembered and represents everything related to the world of the dead men and the phenomenon in yes of the death.
Origin • The holiday that today is celebrated by Halloween's name goes back to it does three thousand years, when the Celts were living through largely of Europa Occidental. When the summer was coming to his end, the Celts, who were practising the religion Druid, were celebrating the festival called Samhain. This one had a meaning transition between the clear epoch (summer) and the dark period (winter). For them it was the beginning of a new year, but also it had a meaning of opening to other worlds.
The pumpkin, his vegetable icon • The pumpkin is the most representative symbol of Halloween's festivity, but not as vegetable, if not as an oil-lamp igniting a candle in his interior, drawing in his surface diverse motives, it is used to light of macabre and enterteining form the night of Halloween producing the own effect of light of a lantern.
Why do we use constumes in halloween? • The tradition of dress up for Halloween has Celtic and European roots. Hundreds of years behind, the winter nights were menacing. The people were afraid to the darkness of the night and in the Day of Bruges, when one believed that they were turning the ghosts, the people were thinking that one would find them if it was leaving his homes. This way it is that, not to be recognized by the ghosts, they were using masks when they were going out of his houses after the late afternoon, with the aim to confuse to the ghosts in his search of spirits.
Why is trick or treat said? • The famous trick or treat owes to the belief of that in the night of halloween a spirit called Jack o ' lantern was strolling of house in house asking for trick or treat, The legend claim that the better thing was to do the treatment, without importing the cost that this one had, since of it the spirit does not accept curse your house and to his inhabitants
Who is Jack o' lantern? • Jack or ' lanterns not only they are the famous lamps of gourd, Jack was a farmer who was lying and manipulating his friends and neighbors, such age his bad reputation that I manage to rival even with the very same Devil, until one day Satan I present him to take him to beyond, and up to him it was manipulated by the trickery and Jack's evilness
Pumpkin´s Cake The food more typical of halloween • The Pumpkin's cake is the most popular food in halloween, with the remains extracted from the gourds used for decoration delicious pastry are done.
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