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miércoles, 19 de noviembre de 2008

HALLOWEEN


This day really isn´t special for me,but almost all the people celabrate this day there is an exeption when all my classmates and me participating it was an amaizing excperience and it was very funny. I found this information on the web and I would like to share with us this information.
Halloween
(or Hallowe’en) is a holiday celebrated on October 31. Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, ghost tours, bonfires, costume parties, visiting haunted attractions, carving jack-o'-lanterns, reading scary stories, watching horror movies and individual traditions. Irish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America during Ireland's potato famine of 1846. Other western countries embraced the holiday in the late twentieth century. Halloween is celebrated in several countries of the Western world. Halloween is also becoming increasingly popular with children in other countries due to the influences of American pop culture.

History

Halloween has origins in the ancient Celtic festival known as Samhain (Irish pronunciation:[ˈsˠaunʲ]; from the Old Irish samain). The festival of Samhain is a celebration of the end of the harvest season in Gaelic culture, and is sometimes regarded as the "Celtic New Year".festival was a time used by the ancient Celtic pagans to take stock of supplies and slaughter livestock for winter stores. The ancient Gaels believed that on October 31, now known as Halloween, the boundary between the living and the deceased dissolved, and the dead become dangerous for the living by causing problems such as sickness or damaged crops. The festivals would frequently involve bonfires, into which the bones of slaughtered livestock were thrown. Costumes and masks were also worn at the festivals in an attempt to copy the evil spirits Traditionally, the or placate them.

Origin of name

The term Halloween is shortened from All Hallows' Even (both "even" and "eve" are abbreviations of "evening," but "Halloween" gets its "n" from "even") as it is the eve of "All Hallows' Day",which is now also known as All Saints' Day. It was a day of religious festivities in various northern European Pagan traditions, until Popes Gregory III and Gregory IV moved the old Christian feast of All Saints' Day from May 13 (which had itself been the date of a pagan holiday, the Feast of the Lemures) to November 1. In the ninth century, the Church measured the day as starting at sunset, in accordance with the Florentine calendar. Although All Saints' Day is now considered to occur one day after Halloween, the two holidays were, at that time, celebrated on the same day.


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