holloween

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Some of my batch mates and I are rode in jeepey with beth.

We went to dress shop in public market but we did not buy the Halloween part mask. Because we did not want the mask.

So we went to small. I found a pretty hair

Band. It is red in color and looks like devils torn.

I bought it. And I bought a devil’s stick and a devil’s wings.

They are very cute. I like it.

Halloween day started in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Ireland. On October 31st, children dressed as pirates, princesses, ghosts, and most popular heroes go around their neighborhood with their bags, knocking on their door, shouting "trick or treat!" The neighbors great them with treats such as cookies and candies. Sometimes, they try to guess who is underneath the costume.

 October 31st was a day before Celts' New Year. The Celts believed that ghosts came around and mixed with people on that day. Therefore, the residents baked bread all day and dressed up like the dead at night. They left the food at the end of the town for the ghosts until the New Year’s Day, hoping that they leave peacefully.

 As time passed by, as Christianity was introduced to the island, October 31st was no longer the day a year ended but was celebrated by children. It is said that this tradition was passed on to the Americans when the islanders immigrated to America in 1840. 

As Halloween originated from a tradition that celebrated the ghosts, skulls, ghosts, and witches riding brooms with black cats are all symbols of Halloween. Kids wear these spooky costumes when trick-or-treating and these images are often used as decorations for cards and windows. It can be assumed that the traditional color of Halloween, black, comes from the fact that the celebration started at night. Many Americans decorate their houses and schools with silhouettes of witches and black cats a week before Halloween. Moreover, the carved pumpkins are also, a well known symbol of Halloween.

People carve faces on pumpkins and call them "Jack O'Lantern.”

 This name is from an islander who died and as he was too tightfisted and made jokes about devils, was denied access to neither heaven nor hell.

He is known to walk around this life with a lantern until the judge mint day. On Halloween, Jack O'Lantern on someone's window means that they have candies for children.

The early history known of the Celts is that on All Hallow’s Eve, the belief was that spirits of the dead would try to take over the bodies of the living. The idea of scaring the spirits away with bonfires and scary costumes or practical jokes and confusing tricks is probably the basis of what is understood to be the trick part of trick-or-treat. It is possible, but undocumented, that the carving of a pumpkin in order to create a scary facade may have begun at this time as well.

On November 2nd, All Souls Day, the poor would go from house to house and ask for cakes or other such sweet fare. The greater the generosity of those more fortunate, the more prayers would be said for their dead relations. This is likely the beginnings of the treat part of trick-or-treat. Over the years, the Christian influence in these rituals has brought these traditions together.