HALLOWEEN Halloween Halloween is a festival that takes place on October 31. Halloween developed from New Year festivals and festivals of the dead. - презентация

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2 Halloween Halloween is a festival that takes place on October 31. Halloween developed from New Year festivals and festivals of the dead.

3 The main Halloween activity for children is trick or treating. Children dress in costumes and masks and go from door to door saying "trick or treat". The neighbours give children such treats as candy, fruit and pennies so that children do not play tricks on them.

4 Many of them carve lanterns from pumpkins. Jack o lanterns are hallowed out pumpkins with face carved into one side. Most jack o lanterns contain a candle inside.

5 An Irish legend says that jack-o'-lanterns are named after the man called Jack. He could not enter heaven because he was a miser, and he could not enter hell because he had played jokes on devil. As a result, Jack has to walk on the earth with his lantern until Judgment Day.

6 Popular activities are fortune telling, telling stories about witches and ghosts. Fortunetelling is an important part of Halloween. For example, a coin, a ring, and a thimble were baked into a cake. It was believed that the person who found the coin would become wealthy. The one who found the ring would marry soon. And the person who found the thimble would never get married. Today people practice card- reading or palmistry.

7 People once believed that there were many ghosts and witches on the Earth and that they met on October 31 to worship the devil. Today, people do not believe in ghosts and witches but they like to tell stories about them on Halloween.