Halloween
Halloween came about
thanks to the Celts who celebrated an ancient New Year festival that marked the
change of seasons. The Celts believed that for one night prior to the New Year,
the world between the living and the dead intertwined and ghosts could return
to earth! Spooky! As the Catholic religion took hold this pagan festival
changed but never completely vanished, as we know, we still celebrate Halloween
to this day.
In Australia,
Halloween is not an important holiday, but it is in the United States of
America, where six billion dollars is spent on this holiday each year.
What do people do on
Halloween? Well children (and some adults) get dressed up in scary costumes of
things like- witches or ghosts. In the evening they go visiting from house to
house ‘trick-or-treating’ at each house they visit, they receive lollies. A lot
of houses will be decorated with carved lanterns made from pumpkins.
Some people have
Halloween parties where they might have a bonfire, tell ghost stories, watch
scary movies or play a party game called ‘Bobbing for Apples’.
