HalloweenHalloween

By Linda 黃怡綾

For sixth graders

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兩千五百年前，居住在大不列顛的塞爾特族人（即目前的蘇格蘭人，愛爾蘭人等），他們相信世人的生活是由神明所主宰的。而每年十月三十一日的前夕，象徵著一年的結束，以及開始。這一天是塞爾特族人表達他們對太陽神敬意的日子，因為太陽神讓他們的穀物豐收，以應付即將到來的冬天！可是在這一個夜晚也是惡靈力量最強大的一天，因此牧師和祭司也會主持祭典，安撫掌管死亡的神！古時的歐洲人相信惡運是由惡靈帶來的，而惡靈會被醜陋的面具嚇走！

也有傳說在愛爾蘭有一位吝嗇的男子 Jack ，曾設計將撒旦騙上樹，並在樹幹上刻了一個十字架，讓撒旦不敢下來，後來惡魔答應 Jack一整年都不嚇他，才被放出來。據說可憐的傑克在死後，天堂和地獄都拒絕他進入。魔鬼給了他一小塊灰燼，讓他在黑暗的地獄中比較能看清楚路，他便將這小塊灰燼放在一個打了許多洞的菜頭當中，好讓它燒久一點。後來愛爾蘭人就用馬鈴薯或是大頭菜做成燈籠，玩著 "Trick or Treat" 的遊戲。但是當移民們到了美國之後，發現新大陸的南瓜比菜頭普遍，於是改為用南瓜雕刻成各種鬼臉，然後在裡面擺蠟燭了。

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Halloween

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pumpkin

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Jack- o’- Lantern

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trick-or-treat

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party

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scary

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costume

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The neighborhoods were decorated with pumpkins and The neighborhoods were decorated with pumpkins and other black and orange.other black and orange.

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Tony

Coco

Ha! (Try to scare Coco with his jack o’ lantern costume.)

What are you doing, Tony? And what is that thing you’re wearing?

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Coco

Here comes Halloween. And there’ll be a big Halloween party on October 31st. I’m trying on my costume.

I don’t understand what it is.

Well, first, you need to be someone

who is scary.

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Follow me. You’ll see.

What’s trick or treating? Coco

When Halloween came, Tony asked Coco to go trick or When Halloween came, Tony asked Coco to go trick or treating with him and his friend.treating with him and his friend.

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Tony

Trick or treat!

Coco

They walked to a neighborhood They walked to a neighborhood house and knocked at the house and knocked at the doordoor..

Happy Halloween, kids. Take these

candies and go have some fun.

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TonySee? We knocked at the door and asked for sweets from people on Halloween night. If they don’t treat us, we’d play the tricks on them. OK, let’s move to the next door.

Wow, I hope we have this in

Taiwan on this day.

Coco

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Let’s chant…

Trick-or-TreatSmell my feet

Give me something good to eat

If you don't, I don't careI will pull down your

underwear

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Let’s playAnswer the questions~!

When is Halloween?

October 31th December 25th

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Answer the questions~!

What will people do on Halloween?

Go trick or treating Play firecrackers

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What do you wear on Halloween?

bikini scary costume

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On Halloween, what do you see everywhere?

flowers pumpkins

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2500 years ago, the Celts living in the Great Britain believed that human is mastered by gods. Halloween marks the end of the year to celebrate getting all the crops in before winter sets in. It's also a ceremony of the dead. The Celts believed that ghosts came to ask their living relatives for warmth and comfort. To Witches and Pagans, Halloween (or Samhain) is the Festival of the Dead, and the most important Sabbat of the year. So, some Celts were dressed in costumes made from animal heads or furs, which was the origin of contemporary Halloween masquerade.

As the Irish folklore is told, a man named Jack who was notorious as a drunkard and trickster, tricked Satan into climbing a tree. Jack then carved an image of a cross in the tree's trunk, trapping the devil up the tree. Jack made a deal with the devil that, if he would never tempt him again, he would promise to let him down the tree. According to the folk tale, after Jack died, he was denied entrance to Heaven because of his evil ways, but he was also denied access to Hell because he had tricked the devil. Instead, the devil gave him a single ember to light his way through the frigid darkness. The ember was placed inside a hollowed-out turnip to keep it glowing longer. The Irish started to use pumpkins after they came to America. Chinese

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TThhee EEnndd~~!!

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