Presentation of: D’Amico Alessandro Grassia Domenico Materia Simone Raciti Francesco

What is? Halloween is a day when people are very superstitions. The Celts, a very old Europeans tribe, believed that every year on the last day of October, the souls of dead people visited Earth, Halloween is therefore an ancient festival.

come you celebrate? Halloween modern began in the US in 1880. Some people still believe that this is the night of the witches fly. Americans celebrate Halloween by dressing up as ghosts and witches and go to parties. The young people go from house called 'Trick or Treat?'. People have to give them treats such as sweets, crisps, chocolate or money, or have bad luck. Today, most of the children and it is not bad jokes, like emptying the dustbin. Children cut pumpkins in the form of a head of making faces. They put a candle inside the pumpkin and put the window to stop evil spirits. People decorate the house with skeletons, witches, pumpkins, spiders, cats blacks, blats and ghosts.

The history Halloween was born from the festival of Samhain, which was annually on October 31 to honor Samhain Samhain was a harvest festival with huge sacred bonfires, marking the end of the Celtic year and beginning of a new one. Many of the practices involved in this celebration were fed superstition.The Celts believed that the souls of the dead roamed the streets and in the villages at night. Since not all spirits were thought to be friendly, gifts and treats were left out to pacify the evil and ensure next years crops would be plentiful.