Halloween

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* Halloween = All Hallows Evening (October 31)
* Halloween is one of the most important celebrations in United States, Canada, Ireland and UK(United Kingdom)

History
* The former Celtsbelieved that the line that joins to this world with Another World was becoming closer with the arrival of the Samhain, allowing to the spirits (both benevolent and malevolent) to go on to slant.
*it is more typically linked to the Celtic festival of Samhain, derived from the Old Irish Samuin "summer's end"
* The Celts used suits and masks to remove to the malignant spirits. His intentionwas to adopt the appearance of a malignant spirit to avoid to be damaged or possessed.
* They believed that on October 31, Samhain was meeting the spirits of all those who had died the previousyear.
Halloween Around The World
* Halloween is not celebrated in all countries and regions of the world, and among those that do the traditions and importance of the celebration varysignificantly
* In Scotland and Ireland, traditional Halloween customs include children dressing up in costume going "guising", holding parties, while other practices in Ireland include lighting bonfires, andhaving firework displays.
*  Mass transatlantic immigration in the 19th century popularized Halloween in North America, and celebration in the United States and Canada has had a significantimpact on how the event is observed in other nations.
* In this days we celebrate this date with parties and costumes
Costumes
* Halloween's costumes take traditionally the form of suchsupernatural
creatures as ghosts, vampires, and zombies.
* When the people celebrated this diabolical ceremony the people were using costumes made of heads and skins of animals.
* The personswere dancing and singing. All that was becoming to banish to the villains spirits. The disguised ones were going of house in house, using grotesque disguises
* Nowadays, the disguises are used to...
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