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Halloween (History (People use to have to dance for their treats, Haloween…
Halloween
Do we celebrate Halloween in NZ?
Some people in NZ don't celebrate it
NZ does celebrate Halloween in some houses
What customs and traditions are associated with it?
Kids go trick or treating and dress up
It started as a festival of the dead
they carve Jake-o-lanterns
Studies have shown that Halloween actually makes kids act more evil.
History
People use to have to dance for their treats
Haloween is more Irish than St Pactirck Day
They use to wear animal skins and heads
Jako Lanterns were once made out of turnips, beats and potatoes
Halloween used to be a day to find your soul mate
In a few towns it used to be called Cabbage Night
Some animal shelters won't allow the adoption of black cats around Halloween for fear they'll be sacrificed
when is it celebrated
Halloween is celebrated on the 31st of October
Why is it celebrated?
It started as a festival of the dead
The dead could hang out with the living
The veil of the world of the living to the word of the dead is the thinnest
So that people could remember the passed away
They had a festival in honor of these souls of the dead. They call it Samhain
Where did Halloween first originate?
The custom of Halloween was brought to America in the 1840s by Irish immigrants fleeing their country’s potato famine.
Halloween celebrates heaps of things
Halloween isn't actually a holiday like Christmas
Ireland started Halloween in their own country before fleeing
Halloween was made more popular in America
