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Halloween: Traditional Activites

Halloween is celebrated on October 31st and originated from the Celtic holiday of Samhain. Traditional Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, which began as a practice in Ireland where children would sing songs or say prayers for souls of the dead in exchange for food. Costumes are also worn on Halloween stemming from a Celtic tradition of dressing as spirits to appease them. Carving pumpkins into jack-o-lanterns is another tradition that originated from an Irish legend about a man named Stingy Jack who was sent into the night with only a carved turnip lit by burning coal.

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Halloween: Traditional Activites

Halloween is celebrated on October 31st and originated from the Celtic holiday of Samhain. Traditional Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, which began as a practice in Ireland where children would sing songs or say prayers for souls of the dead in exchange for food. Costumes are also worn on Halloween stemming from a Celtic tradition of dressing as spirits to appease them. Carving pumpkins into jack-o-lanterns is another tradition that originated from an Irish legend about a man named Stingy Jack who was sent into the night with only a carved turnip lit by burning coal.

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HALLOWEEN

Halloween is a holiday celebrated on the night of October 31. The word Halloween is a shortening
of All Hallows' Evening also known as Hallowe'en or All Hallows' Eve.

TRADITIONAL ACTIVITES:
- Trick or treating
Where did Trick or Treat come from?
Many changes have taken place since the celebrations of Samhain and the introduction of
Christianity played a huge part in that in
Ireland.
The custom of trick or treat was founded
in Ireland when children and the poor went
from door to door at Halloween and sang
songs or offered prayers for the soul of the
dead in return for food usually a soul cake
which was a flattened bread that contained
fruit, this tradition was known as Souling.

- Costume parties
Why do people wear fancy dress on
Halloween?
The custom of dressing up in costume comes from an old Celtic tradition when people used to dress
in costumes that resembled evil spirits in order to placate them. At Halloween when the veil
between the living and the dead is at it thinnest men would have dressed in white and blackened
their faces to resemble the dead to acknowledge them and so appease them that they might not visit

the homes of the living or if you were to meet a spirit on your travels they would accept you as one
of their own and not be tempted to carry you away in the morning.

- Carving pumpkins into Jack OLantern


Jack O'Lantern's history
Stingy Jack invited the Devil to have
a drink with him. Jack tricked the
Devil. Jack freed the Devil, under any
conditions. But the next year, Jack
again tricked the Devil. When Jack
died he was thrown out of the heaven
and also of the hell. Devil sent him of
into the dark night with only a
burning coal to light his way, Jack put
the coal into a carved-out turnip and
wandered forever.
http://www.yourirish.com/halloweenin-ireland
http://www.halloweenhistory.org/

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