Презентация, доклад к внеклассному мероприятию Halloween

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Halloween

[sa:win], which means roughly "summer's end. The festival of Samhain celebrates the end of the "lighter half" of the year and beginning of the "darker half", and is sometimes regarded as the "Celtic New Year".

on this night, all of the ghosts and spirits left «the world of the dead» and entered «the world of the living».
It is believed that the need to ward off harmful spirits led to the wearing of costumes and masks. Their purpose was to disguise oneself as a harmful spirit and thus avoid harm.

made huge bonefires to drive the dead back to the spirit world and keep them away from the living.

candle outside their houses.

Samhain with All Saints Day, then the night before October 31th was All-Hallows Eve, which was later changed into Halloween.

North America in the nineteenth century. Other western countries embraced the holiday in the late twentieth century including Ireland, the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom as well as Australia and New Zealand.

started in the British Isles. You need a large tub of water with apples in it floating on the surface. Players must try to catch one only using their mouth! During the celebration, young unmarried people try to bite into an apple floating in water; the first person to bite into the apple would be the next one to marry.

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conquered Britain. Romans had a goddess of trees and fruit called Pomona. When they reached Britain, they also introduced this goddess into the culture of Halloween’s day.

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«trick or treat» in exchange for sweets or sometimes, money.

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to the Middle Ages when poor people used to go from door to door on November the 1st receiving food in return for prayers for the dead on All Souls Day.

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an old Irish tradition because Irish people used to carry turnips with candles inside them to light their way and also to scare off any ghosts.
It was changed to the well-known pumpkin by the Americans.

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a man who couldn’t get into the heaven because he was greedy. He couldn’t enter hell either because he tricked the devil. So he had to stay on the earth with a lantern for ever.

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such things as witches, the devil, skeletons, mummies, vampires etc.

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on this night,
they might meet ghosts and so they dressed up so that
they would not be recognised!

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foods. There is a lot of creativity when making dishes.

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