Trabajo De Halloween En Ingles

1.- Origins of Halloween

The name Halloween is a transliteration derived from the English expression "ALL Hallows Eve", which means "Eve or Vigil of All Saints'.

What we know today as Halloween night or Halloween is celebrated more than 3000 years ago by the Celts, a warlike people who inhabited areas in Ireland, England, Scotland and France. It is precisely the October 31, the Celts celebrated the end of the year with the Samhain a pagan festival and celebrated by the Catholics on November 1. With European immigration to the United States, mainly for the Irish Catholics in 1846, came the tradition of Halloween to the American continent.

2.- Symbols of Halloween

Owl: Darkness of symbol. The sorcerers use the sound of this animal to banish according to them, the powers of the darkness. They take its image as a good luck amulet..

Toads: It was one of the plagues sent by God on the Egyptian people (village), since they

were considering it to be sacred and were producing cult.

Full moon and stars: Used in the practices of the occultism, witchcraft, magic and symbols adopted in the 'new age' according to them we are in the age of 'aquarium' (astrology, belief in the stars).

Masks: There are false faces or faces that show what really is not a person, the buffoons

were using it to make laugh the kings of Rome.

Crystal balls: Used by the astrologers and new age, also they possess similarity to

the practices where quartzes, pyramids, pendulums are used for according to them to bring good luck or positive magnetism and to produce hypnotism.

Black cats: The black cats have been considered to be spiritual animals. In many

societies have been adored and one believes that they have the aptitude to protect

against the bad spirits.

Bogeys and skeletons: The bogeys are universal symbols of the deceased. The skeletons and bones are of the death and they remind the briefness of the life.

Witch brooms: Witches and broomsticks go hand in hand. Have been associated with

during centuries. Is often depicted witches flying on her broomstick through the dark sky

with a black cat.

Spiders and cobwebs: Although many cultures, within the context of the nature, consider that the web represents the fabric of life, for the night of Halloween decoration represents an ideal in mysterious places.

Scarecrow: They are commonly used as a means to scare away the birds. Although its

origin is unknown, are associated with Halloween and holidays of the modern culture.

Bats: The bonfires attracted large numbers of mosquitoes, a delicacy for these small nocturnal mammals that were seen flying over the fire.

Pumpkin: Vegetables carved with faces terrifying and bright inside. Fashion and the

tradition have made it increasingly more universal.

3.- Ways to celebrate Halloween

Currently, the celebration of Halloween involves many activities, but it keeps intact the sense of unity between the world of the living and the dead. The spirit of Halloween seizes all alike, but the celebration is especially popular among children, who often use costumes from terror of all kinds for the traditional trick or treating for Halloween.

But among adults is also very popular: they become festivities of Halloween costumes and participates in celebrations of all kinds. It is very common the decoration of houses, which are put into play all the imagination to decorate gardens, doors and windows with garlands, candle, Halloween pumpkins and other

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