Halloween

Halloween
October 31st

Halloween is a shortened form of All Hallows' Eve. Halloween means holy. Eve is the day before a holy day. Halloween was an ancient British Celtic festival. At Halloween the souls of the dead returned. People lit bonfires to frighten evil spirits. Now bonfires are only burnt on November 5th. Bonfire night.

• Masks
• costumes
• ghosts
• Witches on boomsticks with black cats
• skeletons, bats and spiders
• and Halloween lanterns

...have all become part of Halloween.

Children play trick-or-treat
They ask for a treath hoping to get sweets.