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Halloween By Natalie Branand
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Origins of Halloween Ancient Celtic holiday of Samhain 2000 years ago. Market end of harvest season and they believed this day a bridge to the dead was formed. Used to stand for “All Hollow's Eve”. People would leave out food and wine on their doorsteps to please the roaming spirits to make sure they wouldn’t come inside. Whenever one would leave the house they would dress as a fellow ghoul or ghost to try to fool the ghosts roaming the streets that they were one of them.
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Present Day Halloween Activities include: Trick or treating Costume parties Decorating Carving Pumpkins Pranks Scary Stories o Famous Halloween Movies: All 8 of the Halloween movies Nightmare on Elm Street Friday the 13 th o Another pop culture Halloween subject is the notorious Michael Jackson Thriller which sold over 9 million copies and was claimed had one of the best music videos of all time. www.vevo.com/watch/michael-jackson/thriller/ussm20301507 www.vevo.com/watch/michael-jackson/thriller/ussm20301507
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Fun Facts Americans spend up to $6 billion on average on Halloween each year. U.S growers produce up to 1,500,000,000 pounds of pumpkins each year. Pumpkin carving originally came from Ireland but instead of pumpkins they would carve turnips.
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Sources http://www.history.com/topics/halloween http://www.history.com/topics/halloween http://www.livescience.com/40596-history-of- halloween.html http://www.livescience.com/40596-history-of- halloween.html http://www.history.com/topics/halloween/history-of- halloween/videos/bet-you-didnt-know-halloween http://www.history.com/topics/halloween/history-of- halloween/videos/bet-you-didnt-know-halloween http://www.history.com/topics/halloween/history-of- halloween/videos/all-about-the- pumpkin?m=528e394da93ae&s=undefined&f=1&free=f alse http://www.history.com/topics/halloween/history-of- halloween/videos/all-about-the- pumpkin?m=528e394da93ae&s=undefined&f=1&free=f alse
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