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CUSTOMS & TRADITIONS OF HALLOWEEN

CUSTOMS & TRADITIONS OF HALLOWEEN Each country has its own customs and traditions THE CELEBRATION ENGLAND and SCOTLAND

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CUSTOMS & TRADITIONS OF HALLOWEEN

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  1. CUSTOMS & TRADITIONSOF HALLOWEEN

  2. Each country has its own customs and traditions

  3. THE CELEBRATION ENGLAND and SCOTLAND • All Saints' Day (All HallowsDay) becamefixedonNovember 1, 835, and All Souls' DayonNovember 2, circa 998. On All Souls' Eve, familiesstayeduplate, andlittle "soulcakes" wereeatenbyeveryone. TheEnglishReformationinthe 16th centuryde-emphasisedholidayslike All HallowsDayanditsassociatedeve. WiththeriseofGuyFawkesNightcelebrationsin 17th centuryEngland, many Halloween practices, especiallythebuildingofbonfires, weremovedtoNovember • In Scotland, folklore including that of Halloween, revolves around the ancient Celtic belief in faeries Sidhe” or “Sith” in modern Gaelic. Children who ventured out carried a traditional lantern (samhnag) with a devil face carved into it, to frighten away the evil spirits. Such Halloween lanterns were made from a turnip or “Neep” in “Lowland scots”, with a candle lit from a hollow inside. The autumn festival is pre-christian Celtic in origin, and is known in Scottish Gaelic as Oidhche Shamhna the “End of Summer”

  4. IRELAND • OneoldcustomassociatedwiththeWesternIsleswastoputtwolargenutsinthehearthofapeatfire. Theseweresupposedtorepresentyourselfandyourintendedspouse. Ifthenutscurledtogetherwhentheywarmedupthenthiswasdeemedtobeagoodomen, butiftheyjumpedapartthenitwastimetolookforanothersweetheart.

  5. THE USA CANADA AUSTRALIA • Halloween hasrecentlygainedalargeamountofrecognitioninAustralia • In 2006, costumeshopsreportedariseinsalesonHalloween-themedcostumes, onOctober 31, 2006 andhavereportedasteadyincreaseon Octobter 31, 2007. On Halloween night, horrorfilmsandhorror-themed TV episodesaretraditionallyaired, andcurrently, Halloween privatepartiesaremorecommonlyheldthanactual "trick-or-treating", howeverbotharestillobserved. Trickortreatingisgenerallyonlydoneinthetrick-or-treater's neighbourhood. • Halloween didnotbecomeaholidayintheUnitedStatesuntilthe 19th century, wherelingeringPuritantraditionrestrictedtheobservanceofmanyholidays. Americanalmanacsofthelate 18th andearly 19th centuriesdonotinclude Halloween intheirlistsofholidays. ThetransatlanticmigrationofnearlytwomillionIrishfollowingtheIrishPotatoFamine (1845-1849) finallybroughttheholidaytotheUnitedStates. ScottishemigrationfromtheBritishIsles, primarilytoCanadabefore 1870 andtotheUnitedStatesthereafter, broughttheScottishversionoftheholidaytoeachcountry.

  6. RUSSIA In our country we don’t officially celebrate this holiday, but during our lessons of English, weorganize “Halloween parties” in costumes. We are also making “trick or treat”, because that’s great fun!!!

  7. THAS’S THE WAY HOW HALLOWEEN CELEBRATING MUDDY’S COCTAIL OF HELL …

  8. WRITTEN BY GACHKAEVA NASTYA DOROFEEVA RITA 7 “A”

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