Antonio Fernández Toro Jorge Sánchez Cortés Antonio Fernández Toro David Villena Villena

INDEX History. Costumes. Traditions. Recipes. Countries. Story. Symbols. Pumpkin.

HISTORY Halloween is a yearly holiday that is celebrated around the world on 31st October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows. The American version of Halloween Day celebration owes its origin to the Celts in Scotland, Wales and Ireland. The children dress up and they compete for see the most affright dress of all and they go from house to house saying “trick or treat”.

COSTUMES The tradition of dressing up on Halloween night is so that when we go out of our homes to avoid the evil ghosts. The most popular are: the witch, the vampire, the ghost, the exorcist's daughter, the wolfman, the death, the mummy and the zombie while the rarest halloween costumes along Benjamin Franklin are: Indiana Jones, Harry Potter, zookeeper, Astronaut, etc.

TRADITIONS · To look for spirits: the boys in his houses, play declaring things, to call to the spirits of the dead men. · Stories in the house: the children celebrate doing parties in their houses with all kinds of distractions, in which they can take part their parents and grandparents, who tell old terrifying legends to the children. · House of terror : the children enter to a house of terror created by the parents so that their children amuse themselves with his friends, with monsters , manikins, things that jump you, sometimes with the idea from you take a good fright to yourself and also you join points and take to yourself a prize (toys or sweets).

RECIPES Black and Orange Boo Cups. Creepy Crawlers. Mini Pumpkin Patch Cakes. Nutty Ghosts . Spider Critter Cakes . Spooky Snack Hands.  Frightful Sweets . Shortbread "Fingers" . Sugar Cookie Ghosts.  Gingerbread Jack-O'- Lanterns.

COUNTRIES TOO MUCH INFO, SUMMARISE!! The hometown of Halloween was Ireland. The halloween has an origin outside the Christian faith. This celebration is attributed to the Celts (who lived in the area now Ireland) and was originally called "Samhain", which among other things, was to worship the dead. The tradition of trick or treating Halloween Day itself stems from the persecution that made the Protestants in England (1500-1700) against Catholics. In this period, Catholics had no legal rights. They could not hold any public office and were harassed by fines, high taxes and even jail. The church service was a capital offense and hundreds of priests were martyred for their ministry. At this time there was an attempt to assassinate Catholics Protestant King James I using gunpowder. But the plot was discovered and the instigators were hanged. This became a big celebration in England (even to this day). The Protestants of these regions, hidden with masks, celebrated this date (early November) visiting Catholics and demanding beer and food for the meeting who would harm threatened them if they did not provide this for the celebration. This custom was brought by immigrants to the new land of America, a tradition that came together to Halloween. While in Europe this party was losing steam in America became a sign of identity of their culture

STORY Five boys met at an abandoned house to do spiritualism. When they prepared all, they began to start the session, the spokesperson said: "If you want someone go out, said it." The glass indicated two names, the owners of the names said goodbye to the other people and exited from the house. When they were walking, the house was destroyed.

OTHER HALLOWEEN'S SYMBOLS Búho: Symbol of darkness. Sapo: In Egypt they were sacred and were producing worship. Vampiros: Long ago they were considered Demons. Gatos:It was a deity in the pagan ancient cultures. Máscaras: They are false faces that used the buffoons to make laughing to the kings. Media luna y las estrellas: Symbol of the astrology. Bolas de cristal: It was said that it was bringing good luck and was reading the future.

THE PUMPKIN The origin of carving pumpkins comes from the anecdote of jack'o'lantern, that was a drinker who was sitting down under an oak. One day met Satan to take it to him to the hell but Jack challenged him to climbing the tree and he won him and he put a cross to Satan in order that it could not descend . So, Jack did a treatment to him: it would allow him to go down if it was not returning for him. When Jack died they prohibited him the entry to the sky and to the hell for having been deceptive to Satan. Satan gave to him a lantern up to the Final Judgment.