Transcript THE ORIGINS OF HALLOWEEN

THE ORIGINS OF HALLOWEEN
• Halloween, celebrated each
year on October 31, is a mix
of ancient Celtic practices.
• Halloween is a time of
celebration and superstition.
• Halloween's origins date back
to the ancient Celtic festival
of Samhain (pronounced sowin).
• This day marked the end of
summer and the harvest and
the beginning of the dark.
SYMBOLS OF HALLOWEEN
• Halloween is not just
innocent
entertainment.
• It's symbols and
practices breathes
new life into the
dark rituals and
symbols of past
civilizations.
• Many of its symbols
are universal.
TYPES OF SYMBOLS OF
HALLOWEEN
BATS
• They eat
mosquitoes these
small nocturnal
mammals have a
bad reputation
because of their
infamous cousin,
the vampire bat.
GHOST
• A universal symbol for
departed spirits and occult
visitations.
• These cookies, like the
ghost-shaped sweets served
at Mexico's Day of the Dead
celebrations, tend to
minimize the reality of
spiritual warfare in postChristian America.
• The decorative ghosts may
be cute, but to the countless
victims of demonic bondage
and oppression, the spirit
world is no joke.
GRAVESTONE
• Christians may see it as
a memorial to those who
died, but others see it
as an exciting symbol of
death.
• Since Halloween, like
the Mexican Day of the
Dead, celebrates visits
from the spirit world,
these gravestone
cookies fit both feasts.
TRADITIONAL SONGS IN
HALLOWEEN
• This is very simple but
the children love it.
His name is “Ghost
Chant” (recite veri
quietly):
-Ghost to scary
-Ghost to white
-Don´t scare (child´s
name)! (shout the
name)
-On halloween night
TRADITIONAL FOOD IN
HALLOWEEN
Many people make a sweets, for
exemple:
Huge Scary Spiders:Large
chocolate biscuits shaped
like spiders. The kids love
them.
INGREDIENTS
60g baking chocolate
150g plain flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking
powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
60g butter
200g caster sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
40 red smarties or similar
SPANISH ALL SANT´S DAY
VERSUS HALLOWEEN
• All Saints' Day (in the Roman catholic Church officially the
Solemnity of All Saints and also called All Hallows or
Hallowmas), often shortened to All Saints, is a solemnity
celebrated on 1 November by parts of Western Christianity,
and on the first Sunday after Pentecost in Eastern
Christianity, in honor of all the saints, known and unknown.
It is a national holiday in many historically Catholic
countries. In the Roman Catholic Church, the next day, All
Souls’ Day, specifically commemorates the departed faithful
who have not yet been purified and reached heaven.
Catholics celebrate All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day in the
fundamental belief that there is a prayerful spiritual
communion between those in the state of grace who have
died and are either being purified in purgatory or are in
heaven and the ‘Church militant' who are the living.
HALLOWEEN
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Halloween (or Hallowe'en) is an annual holiday observed on October 31.
It has roots in the Celtic festival of Samhain and the Christian holiday
All Saints' Day , but is today largely a secular celebration. Day of the
Dead (Spanish: Día de los Muertos) is a holiday celebrated by many in
Mexico and by some Mexican Americans living in the United States and
Canada, The holiday focuses on gatherings of family and friends to pray
for and remember friends and family members who have died. The
celebration occurs on November 2 in connection with the Catholic
holidays of All Saints' Day (November 1) and All Souls' Day (November
2). Traditions connected with the holiday include building private altars
honoring the deceased using sugar skulls, marigolds, and the favorite
foods and beverages of the departed and visiting graves with these as
gifts. The Day of the Dead is a time of celebration when eating and
partying are common. Due to occurring shortly after Halloween, the Day
of the Dead is sometimes thought to be a similar holiday, although the
two are celebrated differently.
TRICK OR
TREAT
The origin of “trick or treat” is a custom that
has his origin to the pursuit of the
Protestants against the Catholics in
England, particularly in the XVIth and
XVIIth century. Due to this pursuit, James
I (Protestant king) and his parliament,
they were victims of an attempted murder.
But the plan failed when Guy Fawkes (one
of the organizers) spoke under the
pressure of the hangmen and betrayed his
companions, being executed later. All this
gave origin to a custom, of character
more or less burlesque, by means of that
Lutherans' gangs, which were protecting
his identity under lugubrious masks, were
celebrating the date of the discovery of
the perfidy. For it, they were visiting the
catholic homes and were demanding
pastry and beer from them. Finally, the
custom moved to America and passed on
October 31, joining Halloween's holiday.
JACK
O’LANTERN
Carving Jack O'
Lanterns is a
Halloween custom that
dates back to ancient
Ireland. the first Jack
O' Lanterns were
made of turnips even
potatoes, not
pumpkins.
An Irish legend tells that a man named Stingy
Jack invited the Devil to have a drink. When it
came time to pay, he convinced the Devil to
change into a sixpence, but instead of paying
for the drink Jack pocketed the sixpence and
kept it stored beside a silver cross, which
prevented the Devil from changing back.
Jack made a deal with the Devil before letting
him free that the Devil could not harass him.
Next Halloween Jack died and was turned
back from the Gates of Heaven. He went to
the Gates of Hell and the Devil told him to go
away, as Jack had made him promise not to
claim his soul. Jack didn't want to leave
because it was dark and he couldn't find his
way. The Devil tossed Jack a glowing coal
and Jack put it inside a turnip, and ever since
with this "Jack O' Lantern", Stingy Jack's
lonely soul has been roaming the faces of this
earth.
GHOST STORIES
BLOODY MARY
• Go into a room with a mirror and turn all the
lights off. Bathrooms seem to be perfect for
this since they almost always have a mirror
and are usually dark at night with the lights
off and the door closed. Light a candle, look
into the mirror, start chanting "Bloody Mary"
You have to do this 13 times, of course. You
should see Bloody Mary behind your left
shoulder after the thirteenth time.
The Long Distance Phone Call
• An elderly woman receives a phone call on a dark, stormy
night. She hears a moaning on the other end and a voice that
sounds like her recently diseased husband. The calls
torment her all night. The next day, she asks her driver to
take her past the cemetery where her husband was laid to
rest. They discover that during the storm, a phone line had
fallen down ...........and was laying on her dead husbands
grave! Were the phone calls she had received the night
before made from beyond the grave by her dead husband?
Another variation of this has the woman dying from shock in
her bed after answering the phone call. Then, when she is
being taken to the cemetery it is discovered that the phone
line is laying on her husbands grave.
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Fabiola Tenza Marco
Antonio Martinez Fernández
Carmen María Muñoz Espallardo
Sandra Tenza Alonso
Eliana Vicente Ródenas