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HISTORY OF HALLOWEEN
Halloween is tradit ional ly
celebrated on the night of 31st
October, the night before Al l
Saint’s Day.
IN ENGLAND HALLOWEEN WAS
CALLED ‘ALL HALLOW’S EVE’.
ON HALLOWEEN NIGHT ALL EVIL
SPIRITS WENT OUT TO HAUNT
PEOPLE.
HALLOWEEN IS BASED ON AN ANCIENT
CELTIC HOLIDAY AND THE NAME
‘HALLOWEEN’ MEANS ‘SUMMER’S END’ .
IN PAST T IMES PEOPLE PUT LAMPS OR
LANTERNS OUTSIDE THEIR HOUSES TO
BE FRIENDLY TO THE SPIRITS.
PEOPLE BEL IEVED THAT WITCHES,
GHOSTS AND GOBLINS WENT AROUND
AT N IGHT LOOKING FOR A L IV ING BODY!
ON HALLOWEEN PEOPLE DRESSED UP AS
GHOSTS AND WITCHES SO THAT THE
SP IR ITS WOULD NOT STEAL THEIR BODY.
NOWADAYS PEOPLE PUT
PUMPKINS WITH FACES OUTSIDE
THEIR HOUSES.
THE PUMPKIN IS SOMETIMES
CALLED THE ‘JACK-O-LANTERN’.
‘ tr ick or treat’ is a game chi ldren
play at hal loween to play jokeS
–tr ick- or get sweetS –treat- .