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Bet You Didn'T Know: Halloween: Complete The Sentences With The Missing Information

1. When most people think of Halloween they think of trick-or-treating, costumes, candy, and other family-friendly activities. 2. It originated from the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain celebrated 2000 years ago on November 1st. 3. On the night before Samhain, people believed that the dead returned as ghosts.

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Bet You Didn'T Know: Halloween: Complete The Sentences With The Missing Information

1. When most people think of Halloween they think of trick-or-treating, costumes, candy, and other family-friendly activities. 2. It originated from the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain celebrated 2000 years ago on November 1st. 3. On the night before Samhain, people believed that the dead returned as ghosts.

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BET YOU DIDN’T KNOW: HALLOWEEN

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Complete the sentences with the missing information:

1. When most people think of Halloween they think of ________________, _______________,


_______________, and other family-friendly activities.

2. It all goes back _________ years to the ancient Celtic festival known as Samhain celebrated on _______.

3. On the night before Samhain, people believed that the ______________ returned as _________________.

4. They would leave _____________ and _______________ on their doorstep to keep roaming spirits at bay.

5. The Christian church turned Samhain into _____________________________ or all hallows.

6. The night before became all hallow’s eve later shortened to ___________________.

7. You’ve heard of trick-or-treating on Halloween, but what about _______________ or _________________.

8. All three of these traditions originated in ______________________________.

9. On all souls’ day the needy would beg for pastries known as ___________________. In return they would
pray for people’s dead relatives.

10. In the medieval Halloween tradition of guising, young people would dress up in ________________ and
accept _____________, _____________, ____________ and other offerings in exchange for singing,
reciting poetry or telling jokes.

11. In 19th century America Irish and Scottish immigrants revived these old traditions. The result was
____________________.

12. At first it was much more about the __________ in the form of pranks and hijinks, then the _____________.

13. It wasn’t until the _______’s that the custom took on its current family-friendly
__________________________ form.

14. Today Halloween is big ____________________, with U.S. consumers spending more than 2.5 billion on
costumes annually. Add in the candy, and it’s estimated that Americans spend up to
_______________________ on Halloween each year.

15. Making it the second most commercial holiday after _____________________.


ANSWERS.

1. trick-or-treating, parades, bobbing for apples

2. 2,000, November 1st

3. dead, ghosts

4. food, wine

5. all saints day

6. Halloween

7. souling, guising

8. medieval Britain

9. soul cakes

10. costume, food, wine, money

11. trick-or-treating

12. tricks, treats

13. 1950, kid-centered

14. business, 6 billion

15. Christmas

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