Презентация, доклад по английскому языку на тему История праздника Halloween (7 класс)

This Celtic festival, originally symbolizes the coming of winter and the dark forces, as the days grow shorter and the nights colder and longer. Before the holiday had a very different name: "the vigil Samana". The Celts believed that on October 31 Samana gathered all the spirits of the dead for the last year. They, according to their beliefs, lived in the bodies of animals as punishment for their evil deeds.

the dead, it was believed that on this night, people die, break their vows. . That night, Samhain opens the gates between the living and the dead, between the world of humans and the world of spirits. According to the beliefs of the Celts, only once in a year people could easily get into the world of spirits. To protect them from the Celts dressed in their likeness and went from house to house, asking for food for evil spirits to appease her.

this day they dressed in costumes of evil, teach in schools, public events on the theme of the festival, run by schools and homes with the cry: "draw up or treat!", need sweets. In addition, on Halloween people of different ages merry pranks, wondering, and pay great attention to preparing pumpkin lanterns.

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Pumpkin also mean the end of the harvest, and the evil spirit, and the sacred fire, frightening followers Halloween believe that pumpkin with a scary face and a candle inside is a symbol at the same time the evil spirit and the Holy fire, frightening him. But not everywhere the devil's candlesticks prepare pumpkin. For example, in England candle put on beets, and in Scotland and Ireland in turnips, potatoes or zucchini. Modern Day of all saints is more like a hoax. His love not only in America but also in many European countries.