Halloween

Don’t be surprised nor scared For tonight is Halloween!!!!! Tonight is the night To have a great fright Don’t be surprised nor scared Just be prepared For tonight is Halloween!!!!!

History Halloween is a festival that takes place on October 31. In the USA children wear costumes and masks and go trick-o-treating. Many of them carve jack-o-lanterns out of pumpkins. Fortunetelling and storytelling about ghosts and witches are popular activities.

History 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 neighbors give children such treats as candy, fruit and money so that children do not play tricks on them.

Trick or treat, trick or treat Give us something good to eat. Give us candy, give us cake Give us something sweet to take Give us cookies, fruit and gum Hurry up and give us some You had better do it quick Or we’ll surely play a trick Give us something good to it.

Jack-o-lantern, Jack-o-lantern You are such a funny sight As you sit there by the window Looking out into the night You were once a pumpkin Growing on a curly vine Now you are a Jack-o-Lantern See your night lights shine.

Fortunetelling is an important part of Halloween 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 cardreading or palmistry.

Halloween costumes are traditionally modeled after monsters such as ghosts, skeletons, witches and devils. Over time, the costumes selection extended to include popular characters from fiction and celebrities.

Because the holiday comes in the wake of the annual apple harvest, candy apples and pumpkin pies are the symbols of Halloween. Candy apple is an apple on a stick with a hard sugar candy coating, usually made from cooled sugar syrup and colored red.

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