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The Nightmare Before Christmas

The Nightmare Before Christmas

The Origin of Halloween

Various Costumes

Treat or Trick

Jack-o-lantern

Halloween is on October 31st, the last day of the Celtic calendar. It was originally a pagan holiday, honoring the dead. Halloween was referred to as All Hallows Eve and dates back to over 2000 years ago.

• Halloween culture can be traced back to the Druids(德鲁伊教 ), a Celtic culture in Ireland, Britain and Northern Europe. Roots lay in the feast of Samhain, which was annually on October 31st to honor the dead.

• Samhain signifies "summers end" or November. • The Celts believed the souls of the dead roamed the streets a

nd villages at night.

• One story about Jack, an Irishman, who was not allowed into Heaven because he was stingywith his money. So he was sent to hell. But down there he played tricks on the Devil (Satan), so he was kicked out of Hell and made to walk the earth forever carrying a lantern.

• The Irish name for these lanterns was "Jack with the lantern" or "Jack of the lantern," abbreviated as " Jack-o'-lantern" and now spelled "jack-o-lantern."

• is a customary celebration for children on Halloween. The word "trick" refers to a "threat" to perform mischief on the homeowners or their property if no treat is given.In this custom the child performs some sort of trick.

• the Middle Ages• North America in the

19th century• the term "trick or treat"

appears in 1927• postcards produced

between the turn of the 20th century and the 1920s

Two revelers dressed in financial themed costumes marches in the annual Greenwich Village Halloween Parade in New York, October31, 2008.

Revelers march in the annualGreenwich Village Halloween Parade in New York,

October 31, 2008.

Martha Stewart (L), dressed as Medusa, and actress Blake Lively, dressed as Cleopatra, prepare pumpkin-shaped chocolate marble cake during a special Halloween edition of 'The Martha Stewart Show' telecast on October 31, 2008.

A contestant who is participating as a Mummy poses before the start of a Halloween costume contest inside an amusement park in Manila October 31.

A boy dressed in Halloween costume plays with a phone before a contest during a trick or treat event in a mall in Quezon City, Metro Manila October 26, 2008.

Participants dress up in costume at the West Hollywood Halloween Costume Carnival in West Hollywood, California on October 31, 2008.

U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) steps off his campaign plane carrying a Halloween pumpkin, at Chicago Midway Airport, October 31, 2008.