HALLOWEEN

Halloween  has origins in the ancient Gaelic festival known as Samhain [sa:win], which means roughly ...... 

Halloween is sometimes regarded as the "Celtic New Year".

The Celts believed that on this night, all of the ghosts and spirits left «the world of the dead» and entered «the world of the living».

People wore costumes of witches, skeletons, zombies and ghosts because they wanted to ....

Celts believed that ........... could scare evil spirits

The Pope replaced the festival of Samhain with All Saints Day...

Irish and Scottish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America in the 17th century. 

Children go from door to door, knocking and saying

The tradition of saying " trick or treating ' originates from Britain and Ireland and dates back to the Stone Ages when poor people used to go from door to door on November the 1st

It is an old Irish tradition because Irish people used to carry turnips with candles inside them.

Jack-O-Lanterns is .....

According to the Irish legend, Jack was a man who couldn’t get into the heaven because he was greedy and he also couldn’t enter hell either because he tricked the devil.