HISTORY OF HALLOWEEN

Halloween is tradit ional ly

celebrated on the night of 31st

October, the night before Al l

Saint’s Day.

IN ENGLAND HALLOWEEN WAS

CALLED ‘ALL HALLOW’S EVE’.

ON HALLOWEEN NIGHT ALL EVIL

SPIRITS WENT OUT TO HAUNT

PEOPLE.

HALLOWEEN IS BASED ON AN ANCIENT

CELTIC HOLIDAY AND THE NAME

‘HALLOWEEN’ MEANS ‘SUMMER’S END’ .

IN PAST T IMES PEOPLE PUT LAMPS OR

LANTERNS OUTSIDE THEIR HOUSES TO

BE FRIENDLY TO THE SPIRITS.

PEOPLE BEL IEVED THAT WITCHES,

GHOSTS AND GOBLINS WENT AROUND

AT N IGHT LOOKING FOR A L IV ING BODY!

ON HALLOWEEN PEOPLE DRESSED UP AS

GHOSTS AND WITCHES SO THAT THE

SP IR ITS WOULD NOT STEAL THEIR BODY.

NOWADAYS PEOPLE PUT

PUMPKINS WITH FACES OUTSIDE

THEIR HOUSES.

THE PUMPKIN IS SOMETIMES

CALLED THE ‘JACK-O-LANTERN’.

‘ tr ick or treat’ is a game chi ldren

play at hal loween to play jokeS

–tr ick- or get sweetS –treat- .