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What is it? . HALLOWEEN!!!. How did Halloween Start?. Very old Celtic holiday called “Samhain” November 1 st was the start of the New Year. The marked the end of summer. . How did Halloween Start?. October 31 was called All Hallow’s Eve.
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What is it? HALLOWEEN!!!
How did Halloween Start? • Very old Celtic holiday called “Samhain” • November 1st was the start of the New Year. • The marked the end of summer.
How did Halloween Start? • October 31 was called All Hallow’s Eve. • October is the day when the world of the living and the dead become one.
TRICK OR TREAT! • Poor Celtic children went to homes on October 31st. • They were given food. • For food, they would pray for the souls of the giver’s dead family. • They would pray on All Saint’s Day (Nov. 1)
JACK-O’-LANTERNS • This tradition began when people believed that making scary faces on pumpkins scares away evil ghosts! • We use pumpkins because there are a lot in America.
COSTUMES • During Samhain, people worse masks and costumes to hide from evil spirits! • This became popular in the US in the 1930s.
Halloween Spooky Vocabulary! • spooky • ghost • witch • pumpkin • bat • spiders • mummy • frankenstein • superhero • candy • goblin • Vampire • haunted house • lanterns • моторошний • привид • відьма • гарбуз • летючамиша • павуки • мумія • Франкенштейн • супергероєм • цукерки • гоблін • Вампір • будинокзпривидами • ліхтарі
Haunted Houses! • Haunted Houses are ways to make money for clubs. • Each room has something scary in it!
CRAZY FACTS ABOUT HALLOWEEN! • Halloween makes over 5,000,000,000 dollars a year. • Halloween started 6,000 years ago in Ireland. • Boston had 30,128 Jack O Lanterns ! • The first Jack O Lanterns were made from beets. • The word “witch” comes from the old English word, Wicce, which means wise woman. • Samhainophobia is a fear of Halloween. • The largest pumpkin in the world was in 1993, and was 500 Kilograms.