Halloween

Halloween • Is celebrate on 31st October• People were believed that halloween is a day, when

spirits (of those who died in the previous year) would come back and posses a body, which allow themselves to pass into the afterlife.

Trick-or-treating (known as „Guising“)• Is a celebration for children on Halloween

• Children go in costume from house to house, asking for treats such as a candy or sometimes money, with the question, "Trick or treat?

Trick-or-treaters

• They believe that these costumes can frighten all spirits away. And this is the how the moderm Halloween holiday was born.

Costumes• People, which dont want to be possessed,

should dress up in scary costumes.

Halloween is the most expensive feast Christmas in spending. Consumers will spend over $2.5 billion during Halloween. That's a whole lot of candy, costumes, decorations, and party goods.HALLOWEEN IS THE MOST EXPENSIVE

FEAST AFTER CHRISTMAS.

Consumers will spend over $2.5 billion during Halloween.

That's a whole lot of candy

costumes

decorations and party goods.

Samhainophobia

• It's not uncommon for people to be afraid of Halloween. In fact, there's even a name for this fear: SAMHAINOPHOBIA

Samhain

and other beings such as fairies, to come into our world.

was seen as a time when the 'door' to the Otherworld opened enough for the souls of the dead,

Apple boobing

• is a game traditionally

played on Halloween.

• Players have to try to

bite one of the apples

using only their teeth.

The hands must

remain behind the

back at all times.

„Stay dry“ apple bobbing• the kids can bob for

apples without all the mess that comes along with a traditional bobbing for apples game.

• We need aples with long stems and tie long strings to the stem of each apple.

• Traditionally, the winner of this game was predicted to be the next to get married.

Jack o Lanterns• When Irish immigrants came to America, they quickly

discovered that pumpkins were much easier to carve out and began using them.

• Because of this discovery Jack-o-Lanterns as we know them were born.

- pumpkins with candles inside them

COLOURS OF HALLOWEEN• Orange - became

Halloween color because of orange is associated with pumpkin

• Black – because is associated with death

Other names for Halloween:• All Hallows Eve

• Samhain• The feast of the Dead

Natália Václaviková