- People would light fires to honor the dead. It was believed that on October 31st,spirits were able to visit the world of the living. it was also the time when those who had passed away during the year could travel to the beyond.
- Gifts of food and drink were placed out for these spirits to appease them. This began the tradition of children dressing up different costumes and going door to door to collect treats.
- On Halloween, when it was believed that ghosts came back to the earthy world, people thought that they would encounter ghosts if they left their homes. To avoid being recognized by these ghosts, people would wear masks when they left their home after dark so the ghosts would mistake them for fellow spirits.
HALLOWEEN'S COSTUMES
- Most experts believed that the tradition of wearing costumes on Halloween scare away ghosts. There is a lot of different costumes, for example: ghost, princesses, superheroes, jokers etc.
TRICK OR TREAT
- As for the trick or treating traditions, beginning in the Middle ages, children and sometimes poor adults would dress up in costumes and go door to door during Halloween begging for food or money in exchange for songs and prayers
- Why is this big orange thing so innate to Halloween? Well, the short answer is that it isn't. Hundred of years ago the practice of carving pumpkins was quite common place. The scary faces that could be created out of them were used to scare people and travellers at night.
By: Noura BEKDACHE
Riwa IDRISS
Hussein HARIRI
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