Halloween

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Halloween 2014/2015

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Fantasy and Folklore

Halloween is an ancient festival. The Celtic peoples, who were once found all over Europe, divided the year by four major holidays. According to their calendar, the year began on a day corresponding to November 1st on our present calendar. The date marked the beginning of winter. Since they were pastoral people, it was a time when cattle and sheep had to be moved to closer pastures and all livestock had to be secured for the winter months.

Crops were harvested and stored. The date marked both an ending and a beginning in an eternal cycle.

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Many of today's Halloween traditions are associated with America, however they originated in Celtic history.

Trick or Treat

For example the custom of 'trick or treat' originated in England as ‘Mischief Night' when children declared one ‘lawless night' of unpunished pranks (usually May Day eve or Halloween).

Nowadays children dress up in costumes and go from door to door where they knock on the door, or ring the doorbell, and yell 'Trick or treat!'. The idea being that the owners of the house give the children a treat (sweets or money) or the children will play a trick on them - I believe that in legal terminology this is called extortion!

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+ Superstitions associated with Halloween was believed to be the night when the barrier between the living world and that of the spirits was at its weakest. In the old days people lit bonfires to ward away evil spirits and in some places they used to jump over the fire to bring good luck.

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Now we light candles in pumpkin lanterns called Jack-o'-Lanterns.

This is intended to scare away evil spirits from the home.

Halloween was also a time to honour the dead, and divine the future.

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