2. THE HISTORY OF HALLOWEEN
• We celebrate Halloween every year on October 31st.
• The holiday originally comes from a people called the
Celts.
• The Celts lived in Europe more than 2000 years ago.
•On November 1st they celebrated the end of summer.
They thought ghosts visited the living on October 31st.
They dressed up like ghosts so the spirits would not harm
them.
3. THE HISTORY OF HALLOWEEN
• Halloween is an old tradition in Ireland and Scotland. In
those countries, people dressed up and carried lanterns
made of turnips.
• When people moved from Ireland and Scotland to the
United States, they started using pumpkins.
• This is where the jack-o´-lantern comes from.
4. HALLOWEEN ´ S NAME
• Today, many countries still remember the dead on
November 1st. It is called All Saints Day.
•Another name for it is All Hallow´s day. The day before,
October 31st, is called All Hallow´s Eve, or Halloween for
short.
5. JACK-O-LANTERNS
• Irish children used to
carve out potatoes or
turnips and light them for
Halloween. They
commemorated Jack, an Irish
villian so evil that the God
and the Devil didn´t want
him. Rejected by both the
sacred and the profane, he
wandered the world looking
for a place to rest. His only
6. TRICK OR TREAT
• They also had a tradition of giving food to the spirits.
Later, they gave the food to poor people. This is where
trick-or-treating comes from.
• At present, young people (with their coustumes) go
from house to house saying “trick or treat”. People often
say “treat” and give them sweets. If they say “trick”,
young people will do a mischief.
7. TRADITIONAL FOOD IN HALLOWEEN
• Pumpkin pie, pumpkin soup and pumkin biscuits are very
popular.
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•Barnbrack is a kind of fruitcake that can be bought in
strores or baked at home. A muslin-wrapped treat is baked
inside the cake that, it is said, can foretell the eater´s
future. If a ring is found, it means that the person will
soon be wed; a piece of straw means thah a prosperous
year is on its way. A barnbrack
