Halloween
is celebrated on October the 31st every year. It originated from a pagan
holiday and the christian holiday of All Saints’ Day. The name Halloween is a
shortened version of All Hallows’ Eve.
Today, it is more of a fun day for children and has largely lost its religious roots. Halloween is probably
most famous in the U.S.A. Irish immigrants took it to America in the mid-1600s and it slowly spread across the
country. Halloween is not celebrated in many countries around the world
although many people know about it. Some Christians are not so happy that
people celebrate Halloween. They believe the holiday is un-christian because of
its origin as a pagan "festival of the dead."
Halloween has many easily
identifiable symbols. The colours orange and black are widely used. In particular, orange pumpkins and fires
and black witches, cats and costumes are common features of this day.
One of the biggest Halloween activities is trick-or-treating. This is when
children knock on doors and ask for a small gift. If they don’t get
anything, they’ll play a trick on the person who opens the door.
Food also plays a big part of Halloween. Toffee apples are very popular and so is
anything made from pumpkin. Halloween is also a popular topic for Hollywood.
Many horror movies have been made about it. Because of this, Halloween is now
known in many countries that never actually celebrate it.
Do you celebrate Halloween? Are you going to a costume party?
What do you think about celebrating Halloween in Spain? Do you agree?
I don't like celebrating Halloween in Spain because it isn't our tradition. I respect it but I think that English countries doesn't celebrate Spanish parties than Carnivals or Easter.
ReplyDeleteI think Halloween is for young people. They are always waiting to party and they're looking fordwar to beginning another. I think is sad that our children don't know about our traditions.
I love Halloween, I always have wanted to be in EEUU, this day. I have thought that some day i will have a pretty house in a nice neighborhood and I will decorate it with a lot of fears ornaments. And I will dress me up of witch and I will scare to all children that come to ring the bell in search of "trick or treating" :) i will like live this day like in a chapter of "Modern Family" where all family help turn a house into a cementery. in my house there isn´t any tradition., and my mother and me we go of party.
ReplyDeleteThe Haloween party is fun, but I don't celebrate because I remember the family who died.
ReplyDeleteFrancisco, there's always two sides of the story.
DeleteSurprisingly, each year there are more and more parties.