Thursday, November 09, 2006

THE HALOWEEN ORIGIN

Halloween is a celebration of the Anglo-Saxon culture that is celebrated at night of day 31 of October. The children disguise themselves for the occasion and take a walk by the streets requesting sweet of door in door. After calling to the door the children "Trick or treatment" pronounces the phrase. If the adults give caramels them, money or any other type of compensates, is interpreted that they have accepted the treatment. If on the contrary they refuse, the boys will crack a small joke to them, being commonest to throw eggs or foams to shave against the door. Halloween is a derivation of the English expression All Hallow's Eve (Day Eve of the Saints). It is celebrated in the Anglo-Saxon countries, mainly in Canada, the United States, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. Also he is popular in Australia and Puerto Rico, and sometimes it is celebrated in New Zealand


Their origins go back to celtas, and the celebration was exported to the United States by European emigrants in century XIX, more or less towards 1846. The expansive force of the culture of the U.S.A. has caused that Halloween has also become popular in other countries. The day of Halloween, in modern times a American celebration is considered

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