13 INTERESTING THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT HALLOWEEN
1.- ONCE UPON A TIME...
You aren't going to
believe it but Halloween hasn't born in a fabric of sugar: this
celebration exist for more than 6000 years, it is believed to have
started in 4000 a.c in Ireland.
2.- ALIVE OR DEAD...
The origin of Halloween
was in the ancient Celtic festival <<Samhain>>, the
celebration in the end of the season of the crop. By then the Gaelic
people thought that the 31 of October the world of the people who
live and the world of the dead people in that night were united, so
the dead people come to live and started upsetting, killing live
people. How the people scare them? Wearing costumes.
3.-CLIN, CLIN
After Christmas, Halloween
is the second celebration where people in USA spend their money,
about 6900 millions of dollars in Halloween. They spend it in sweets,
costumes, parties, decoration, and they spend it too in costumes for
their pets.
4.- TITANIC? WHAT?
Of the 6900 millions of
dollars they spend every year in the United States, only in sweets
are about 2080 millions of dollars. How many sweets we can buy with
all that money? About 224 millions of Kilos, and thats equals to 6
ships like Titanic.
5.-SWEETS, SWEETS...
An American person eats
approximately 1.27Kilos of sweets in Halloween. That's the weight of
a chihuahua wearing a Halloween costume!
6.-LET'S TALK ABOUT SUGAR
The <<Trick or
Treat>>-(known for wearing costumes, and go house by house
asking for sweets)-Kids in Halloween eat about 7000 calories(you
should eat 66 bananas for eat 7000 calories).
7.-BUH!
Halloween scares you? So
that means, maybe you have “Samhainofobia” , fear of
Halloween.
8.-A WITCH? WHERE?
If you wear your clothes
inside out or you walk backwards in Halloween, the tradition says:if
you do that you will see a witch in the midnight.
9.-A BIG PUMPKIN...
The heaviest pumpkin in
the world, was grown in Switzeland, and it was 782,31 Kg, like a
small car.
10.-DOING WHAT? WHY?
The pumpkin and Halloween
are united, like sweets and Halloween: carving pumpkin in Halloween
it isn't only for fun, it's too because they believe that doing that
they scare the bad spirits, so let's start carving pumpkin!
11.-FOLLOW THE RULES
The truth is that<<Trick
or Treat>>it's just for kids: in some cities of the United
Stated they have ban to people older than 12 years old to do the
Trick or Treat . Some teenagers ignore that rule and do it but
if they are caught they have to pay a penalty fee about 1000 dollars!
Sure that 7000 calories of sweets can't pay that penalty fee!
12.-SMALL SPIDERS.
Do not scare or kill a
spider in Halloween: people believe that the spirit of a family
member or someone you love its protecting you that night.
13.-YOU HAVE BEEN DOING IT WRONG!
Probably you have been
misspelling Halloween, and yes! We too. The correct word to write
Halloween is Hallowe'en (All Hallows' Eve)
(Where it is celebrated
the most is in United States).
By Mª Mercedes Blanco and Mª Ángeles Vazquez
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