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HALLOWEEN ‘09
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WHERE DOES HALLOWEEN COME FROM?
We celebrate Halloween every year on October 31st.
Where does the holiday come from?
The holiday originally comes from a people called the Celts.
The Celts lived in Europe more than 2000...
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ENGLISH
HALLOWEEN ‘09
NAME: DATE:
WHERE DOES HALLOWEEN COME FROM?
We celebrate Halloween every year on October 31st.
Where does the holiday come from?
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.
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.
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.
They also had a tradition of giving food to the spirits.
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