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By Lily Pham, Vietnam

Halloween is celebrated throughout the world, with different cultures celebrating in a variety of ways. On the other hand, in my country, Vietnam, Halloween is quite a brand new holiday which has been imported from U.S culture in recent years. There are just a very few tedious activities taking place on Halloween’s Eve just for kids and teenagers. Parents dress up for their kids in a limited number of Halloween costumes and wander around town.

The way Americans celebrate was really surprising to me and it was an eye-opener. Irrespective of sex and age, everyone from old to young eagerly rush to the streets with a variety of costumes full of colors and characters, such as Zombies, Cinderellas, the tape faces, and Spidermen. What impressed me was the kids dressed up in adorable costumes, carrying pumpkin bags, being watched over by their parents as they went trick or treating door to door.

By Willemijn Vos, The Netherlands

Every year, there is one day that everybody gets dressed-up really scary or weird. That is Halloween. The activities you do with Halloween are trick-or-treating, bonfires, costume parties, visiting ‘’haunted houses’’ and carving pumpkins. Halloween is celebrated on the night of October 31.

Halloween has it orgins in the Samhain. The festival of Samhain is a celebration of the end of the harvest season in Gaelic culture. Samhain was a time used to take stock of supplies and prepare for the winter. They believed that on October 31, the boundaries between the worlds of the living and the dead overlapped and the deceased would come back to life and cause havoc.

Sonja Kappler, Germany

Halloween today is all about scary costumes, crazy parties and candies. All around the world people go out and children walk around the streets asking for a “trick or treat”.  But most people don´t know why we even celebrate Halloween on October 31.

Over 2000 years ago people, who are called the Celts, lived in today´s Ireland and parts of Northern France. November first was their New Year’s Day and they believed that on that day the living and death came together.

More than 1000 years ago the Christian named November the first “All Saints Day” also which later changed to “Allhallows”. They celebrated the day to honor saints and other people who died for their religion.

The night before Allhallows was called “Hallows Eve” which is today´s “Halloween”.

People also believed that the spirits of the death visit the earth on Halloween and that also evil spirits would hurt them or cause problems.

As a result they dressed up as ghost or other evil creatures so that the spirits think they are also dead and that they won´t hurt them.

   

The tradition of Halloween was carried to America by the European immigrants and America is now known for celebrating Halloween the most.

Today Halloween is not a religious holiday anymore, but it´s a great day on which all generations come together to celebrate and to have fun. It is also a great family holiday because parents visit pumpkin patches with their kids and crave the pumpkins they picked.

  

So go out, dress up and have fun on Halloween to scare and ban all the bad spirits!

 

By Jessica Fruehbrodt, Germany

My Halloween experience here in the United States of America was amazing. We celebrated a big party at school on Friday with a lot of candies and games. We also had a costume contest ! On Saturday night I went out in Santa Monica. People were dressed up really pretty and we danced all night long. On Monday, the actual Halloween night, I stayed at home to wait for the kids. TRICK OR TREAT !!

Halloween is a celebration on the night of October 31st. This is the time for children to wear costumes and go to people’s home to get candy. They have to say the famous sentence « Trick or treat ! ».

 

This event is not recent. In fact, over two thousand years ago, people believed that the night before All Hallows, was a time when the living and the dead came together. The Europ
eans and Celts thought the dead people’s spirits returned to the earth on the October 31st. They thought if they were dressed like spirits, they would don’t harm them granted that they would think they are dead too.That’s why people wear costumes nowadays.

 

 

The night before All Hallows was called Hallows Eve but later the name changed to be Halloween. This event was considered like a religious holiday.

Nowadays, there are countries like USA who continue to celebrate it a lot. Houses are decorated and people wear costumes. To represented Halloween on the decoration, in America pumpkins cut out with candle inside are popular. There is also other decorations like ghost, spiders…

 

But there are countries, like France, who don’t celebrate Halloween a lot. People don’t decorate their house. Sometimes you can see children on streets to get some candies.

 

Laurie RUYET, France

 

Edvin Ottenvall, sweden

Halloween (hallows eve) is mostly celebrated in North America. It’s an holiday when you dress up as a character, go out to trick or treat, which is when you go random people’s households and ask them for candy. Halloween is mostly celebrated in the USA as well as Canada, but is now days more common in other countries since there is a lot of promotion of Halloween in social media and movies. For instance, in Sweden we usually throw Halloween parties. And there is also some trick or treat sometimes but we’re still not participating as much as the north american countries.

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