The English teacher Marta Fernández has organized a big festival to celebrate Halloween in high school today, Wednesday 31st of October. In her English lessons, students were looking for frightening, hidden words and were trying to discover the missing ingredient for her delicious Halloween recipe !
Remember that the tradition of Halloween on the 31st of October comes from the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain.
Samhain was the Celtic New Year and they celebrated it on the 1st of November because that was the
end of summer and harvest time (life), and the beginning of winter (death). It was also the time
for ghosts to return to Earth for a day.
People lit a big fire, wore special clothes made of
animal skin and hoped to be safe from ghosts and the winter. In AD 609, the Catholic
Church put the Christian celebration of All Saints Day on the 1st of November. Later In AD 1000, the church
added All Souls Day on the 2nd of November, and therefore All Hallows Eve – or Halloween – moved to the night
of the 31st.
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