Halloween, do you celebrate it?

[Cybil van-Sot]

Gypsy J, you did an amazing job! I always fail at carving pumpkins =smile_cry=

[Cybil van-Sot]

[Gypsy J]

Guffy, thanks a lot)))))
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Cybil Bones, did you do that for this year Halloween?
Thanks)))

[Gypsy J]

[Cybil van-Sot]

Злюка Войевна, yup, I used to go to school which specialized in English, so we celebrated Halloween and catholic Christmas. I still don't know why) We had pretty much fun making costumes and getting extra sweets for these holidays. And we had a pumpkin carving contest for halloween, it took me two or three times to understand that I'm not a pumpking sculptor and the best I can do is to give up spoiling vegetables))

[Cybil van-Sot]

[Guffy]

Cybil Bones, haha, me too :D I'll never be able to do right it :D

[Guffy]

[azazel ravenclaw]

Hello I am new here. Halloween

Halloween is a festival that takes place on October 31. In the United States children wear costumes and masks and go trick-or-treating. Many of them carve jack-o'-lantens out of pumpkins. Fortunetelling and storytelling about ghosts and witches are popular activities.

Halloween developed from new year festivals and festivals of the dead. Christian church established a festival on November 1 called All Saints' Day so that people could continue to celebrate their festivals.

The Mass said on All Saints' Day was called Allhallowmass. The day before All Saints' Day was known all hallows' Eve or All Hallow e'en.

The main Halloween activity for children is trick-or-treating. Children dress in costumes and masks and go from door to door saying "trick or treat". The neighbours give children such treats as candy, fruit and pennies so that children do not play tricks on them.

Jack-o'-lanterns are hallowed-out pumpkins with face carved into one side. Most jack-o'-lanterns contain a candle inside. An Irish legend says that jack-o'-lanterns are named after the man called Jack.

He could not enter heaven because he was a miser, and he could not enter hell because he had played jokes on devil. As a result, Jack has to walk on the earth with his lantern until Judgment Day.

Fortunetelling is an important part of Halloween. For example, a coin, a ring, and a thimble were baked into a cake. It was believed that the person who found the coin would become wealthy. The one who found the ring would marry soon. And the person who found the thimble would never get married. Today people practice cardreading or palmistry.

People once believed that there were many ghosts and witches on the Earth and that they met on October 31 to worship the devil. Today, people do not believe in ghosts and witches but they like to tell stories about them on Halloween. this is a very joyful holiday

[azazel ravenclaw]

[Gypsy J]

Cybil Bones, hahah
did you celebrate it this year?

[Gypsy J]

[Оленёнок]

sometimes in school

[Оленёнок]

[Nancy Black]

I don't celebrate Halloween but I know quite a lot of information about it.

[Nancy Black]

[Фея кленового сиропа]

Nancy Black, if you were celebrating Halloween, what kind of clothes would you wear?

[Фея кленового сиропа]