Universidad de los

altos de Chiapas
Project:
Haloween history
Matter:
English IV
Teacher:
Ivn Prez rodas
Schoolgirl
Laura A. Prez Snchez
San cristobal de las casas, Chiapas
5 de november 2014

I can say is that Halloween is a

contraction of All Hallows' Eve, 'Eve of
All Saints'), also known as Witches Night
or day witches, is a celebration of Celtic
origin which is celebrated on the night of
October 31, particularly in Englishspeaking countries like Canada, USA,
Ireland and the UK and to a lesser extent
the rest of the world, including Latin
America and Spain. Despite being Englishspeaking countries, in Australia and New
Zealand is not seen as much as in other
countries.
the origin of this celebration of AngloSaxon origin. Its origins date back to the
Celts over 2,500 years ago when the
Celtic year ended at the end of summer,
on October 31 of our calendar (Samhain).
Cattle were brought from the meadows to the stables for the winter. That
last day was supposed that the spirits could come out of the graveyard and
take over the bodies of the living to rise again, asking food and cursing. They
were victims of spells if they did not accede to their requests: you give me
something or get into mischief, which is the translation of "Trick or Treat"
To avoid this, the Celtic villages littered houses and "decorated" with
bones, skulls and other nasty stuff, so spend long dead scared. Hence the
tradition of decorating houses with sinister motives in the current eve of All
Saints and also costumes. It is thus a party associated with the coming of the
heathen gods to life.

The church of Rome decided to convert to Catholicism festival. It was

instituted on November 1 as All Saints' Day, which in England was called "All
Hallows' Day", and the night before "All Hallows' Eve" which subsequently
resulted in "Halloween".
Halloween Tomb
The party was exported to the United States by European immigrants in
the nineteenth century to 1846. But not begin to massively held until 1921.
That year the first Halloween parade was held in Minnesota and other states
soon followed. The internationalization of Halloween was produced in the late
70s and early 80s thanks to movies and television series.
Today children dress for the occasion and walk the streets begging for candy
from door to door. After knocking on the door the children pronounce the
phrase "Trick or Treat". If adults give them candy, money or any other
reward, is interpreted to have accepted the deal. If instead they refuse, you
guys spend a little joke.
Halloween is a holiday based on fear, death, undead, black magic and
mystical monsters. The "characters" that are often associated with Halloween
include ghosts, witches, black cats, goblins, banshees, zombies and demons, as
well as some literary figures like Dracula and Frankenstein's monster.
The Celts used to dress up in animal skins
on October 31 so as not to be discovered
by the spirits, they say, that night
regained life. Hence the present custom
of dressing that day. The traditional
colors of Halloween are black of night and
the orange of the first light of day.
Halloween symbols include elements like
autumnal pumpkins and scarecrows.
read the origin of Halloween, I realized
that it is a tradition that traveled various
continents and countries, now and in
mexico adopted, I can not talk over the
origin because I made my summary and is somewhat curious to know what all
these celebrations arise. but I repeat it in mexico are different festivities
called Day of the Dead.