1. What is it?

2.  Very old Celtic holiday called “Samhain”  November 1 st was the start of the New Year.  The marked the end of summer.

3.  October 31 was called All Hallow’s Eve.  October is the day when the world of the living and the dead become one.

4.  Poor Celtic children went to homes on October 31 st.  They were given food.  For food, they would pray for the souls of the giver’s dead family.  They would pray on All Saint’s Day (Nov. 1)

5.  This tradition began when people believed that making scary faces on pumpkins scares away evil ghosts!  We use pumpkins because there are a lot in America.

8.  During Samhain, people worse masks and costumes to hide from evil spirits!  This became popular in the US in the 1930s.

10.  spooky  ghost  witch  pumpkin  bat  spiders  mummy  frankenstein  superhero  candy  goblin  Vampire  haunted house  lanterns  моторошний  привид  відьма  гарбуз  летюча миша  павуки  мумія  Франкенштейн  супергероєм  цукерки  гоблін  Вампір  будинок з привидами  ліхтарі

11.  Haunted Houses are ways to make money for clubs.  Each room has something scary in it!

12.  Halloween makes over 5,000,000,000 dollars a year.  Halloween started 6,000 years ago in Ireland.  Boston had 30,128 Jack O Lanterns !  The first Jack O Lanterns were made from beets.  The word “witch” comes from the old English word, Wicce, which means wise woman.  Samhainophobia is a fear of Halloween.  The largest pumpkin in the world was in 1993, and was 500 Kilograms.