Halloween Presentation

Halloween (Origins and Traditions)

Index

2. Samhain

4. Pumpkin Carving

6. Trick or Treating

1. Origins

3. Costumes

5. Apple Bobbing

1. WHAT IS HALLOWEEN?

Halloween is an annual holiday celebrated on October 31, known for scary costumes, trick or treating, and spooky decorations. It is a funny time when people celebrate together all kind of supernatural things.

1. WHEN DID IT START? IS

All the Hallow's Eve!

Halloween is an annual holiday celebrated on October 31, known for spooky costumes, trick or treating, and spooky decorations. It is a time when people celebrate all things spooky and supernatural.

1. WHEN DID IT START? IS

All the Hallow's Eve!

Halloween is an annual holiday celebrated on October 31, known for spooky costumes, trick or treating, and spooky decorations. It is a time when people celebrate all things spooky and supernatural.

2. ORIGINS OF THE HOLIDAY

The Halloween holiday has its roots in the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, a pagan religious celebration celebrated in Ireland which marked the end of the harvest season and beginning of winter or "darker half" of the year.

3. COSTUMES

At Samhain, people wore frightening costumes to scare paranormal beings and souls from the underworld. This tradition has lived all over the years and nowadays, on Halloween, children go to the street disguised as mommies, skeletons, witches or wizards

4. PUMPKIN CARVING

Besides wearing costumes, on Samhain, people carved the faces of evil spirits into potatoes or turnips; lighted them and put them in their window to scare away the spirits. Carved pumpkins, also called "jack-o-lanterns" is a Halloween tradition.It is common to see jack-o'-lanterns used as external and interior decorations in all houses.

JACK -O'-LANTERNS

A man named Stingy Jack trapped the Devil and only let him go on the condition that Jack would never go to Hell. But when Jack died, Heaven did not want his soul and he was forced to wander the Earth as a ghost for eternity. The Devil gave Jack a carved turnip to light his way. .

HALLOWEEN TODAY

Nowadays, Halloween is celebrated around the world but it’s most popular in the United States, Canada, and United Kingdom.

HALLOWEEN TRADITIONS

Nowadays, there are many different traditions that families do in Halloween, but the most popular ones are : apple bobbing and trick or treating.

Apple bobbing or dunking is a game in which apples float in a tub or a large basin of water and the participants must use only their teeth to remove an apple from the basin

APPLE BOBBING

People in costumes go house to house with the phrase "trick or treat". The "treat" is some usually candy/sweets. The "trick" refers to a threat, a mischief on the resident or their property if no treat is given.

TRICK OR TREATING

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_eAKG1paUk

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

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