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Every year on October 31st children (and some adults) dress up incostumesto celebrateHalloween.

Houses are decorated withJack - o - Lanterns, artificialspidersandcobwebs, pretendwitchesandghostsand other frightening objects that symbolize this special day.

On the evening of Halloween, in North America and many other countries around the world, groups of children can be seen walking the streets wearing costumes and visiting their neighbors´ houses to receive candy.

Typical festive Halloween activities includeTrick - or - Treating(going house to house to receive sweets or food), attending costume parties, decorating, carvingpumpkinsinto jack - o’ - lanterns, lightingbonfires, apple bobbing, visitinghaunted houses, telling scary stories, and watching horror films.

But where does this holiday come from?

Halloween originally comes fromthe Celtsthat lived in Europe over 2000 years ago.

The Celtic festival of Samhain, which comes from the Old Irish for “summer’s end” marked the end of theharvest seasonand the beginning of winter or the ‘darker half’ of the year.

It was seen as a time when thespiritscould more easily come into our world.

Thesoulsof the dead throughout history were both honored and warded - off.

The custom of wearing costumes andmasksat Halloween goes back to Celtic traditions of attempting to copy theevilspirits or placate them.

Bonfires, which were deemed to have protective and cleansing powers, were used in rituals and to scare off witches.

Throughout history Halloween has been an important tradition in Scotland and Ireland.

In these countries, children and poor people would sing and say prayers for the dead in return for cakes which is where “trick or treating” began.

The Celts would carrylanternsmade withturnips.

During the 19th Century when the Irish and Scottish immigrated massively to North America they brought the Halloween tradition with them.

On US soil, the turnip lanterns changed to pumpkin lanterns which are called Jack - o - Lanterns.

Trick or Treating was confined to the immigrant communities of North American during the 1800´s, but slowly it was gradually assimilated intomainstream societyand by the early 1900´s it was being celebrated coast to coast by people of all social, racial and religious backgrounds.

Today, many countries still remember the dead on November 1st which is called All Saints Day.

Another name for it is “All Hallow’s Day”.

The day before, October 31st, is called “All Hallow’s Eve”, or Halloween for short.