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1 HALLOWEEN

2 What does it bring in mind?
a PUMPKIN? a WITCH? a GHOST?

3 What is Halloween? Where is it celebrated? It is a holiday
celebrated on the night of October 31; It is celebrated in Ireland, the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, the United Kingdom, sometimes in Australia and New Zealand etc. Is it celebrated in your country too? Where is it celebrated?

4 What does the word Halloween mean?
The term Halloween is shortened from All-hallow-even,as it is the evening of/before “All Hallows’ Day”, also known as “All Saints’ Day”.

5 Traditional activities include:
decorating homes, carving pumpkins, trick-or-treating, Halloween festivals, bonfires, costume parties, visiting “haunted houses”, viewing horror films, etc...

6 What does trick-or-treating mean?
Trick-or-treating resembles the late medieval practice of “souling”, when poor folk would go door to door, receiving food in return for prayers for the dead on All Souls Day.

7 HAPPY HALLOWEEN!


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