Halloween is celebrated on the night of October 31st mostly by children dressing in costumes and going door-to-door collecting sweets.Halloween spread across Europe over 2, 000 years ago. It was a cultural, religious and Celtic tradition celebrating the end of the harvest season. Although it was not called Halloween at first. The holiday was a day of religious festivities in various northern European Druid traditions. Then later in the 7 century because of the Catholic Church's influence, it began to be celebrated as “All Saints Day” to honour all the Saints who did not have a special day of their own. So the term Halloween is from 'HALLOWMAS'. ‘Hallow’ means holy or Saint; it is the eve of the feast of ‘All Hallows’ Eve (often shortened to Hallow Eve) or "All Saints' Day". Over time the name has been shortened to Halloween. In the 19th century it was brought to North America by Irish immigrants.
In my country we don’t have such a holiday. I can only compare it to New year, because that's then all children dress-up.
Excellent work Tatyana! You've shown you undersatnd the festival of Halloween and you wrote about it without copying straight from the internet! Well done!
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