Halloween nazar Darwish 3eme1

On 31st October, the night before All Saints' Day, Americans, Scots and Irish people celebrate Halloween : they dress up as witches and ghosts, have parties, tell ghost stories and play games. Halloween is the second biggest celebration in America after Christmas.

 

Every year Americans spend more than $2.5 billion on sweets, cards, costumes and decorations. More than 66 per cent of houses are decorated.

Halloween was originally a Celtic festival called Samhain celebrating the New Year. Celts believed that the dead could come back to the world on that day. So people wore costumes like witches and ghosts.

Today, Irish and Scottish kids dress up for Halloween, and they visit houses and sing a song or tell a joke. If they don't get sweets, they play a trick.