Halloween is a holiday celebrated on the night of October 31. Traditional activities include trick-or-treating, bonfires, costume parties, visiting "haunted houses" and carving jack-o-lanterns.
Halloween has its origins in the ancient Celtic festival known as Samhain. The festival of Samhain is a celebration of the end of the harvest season in Gaelic culture. Samhain was a time used by the ancient pagans to take stock of supplies and prepare for winter.
The festival would frequently involve bonfires. It is believed that the fires attracted insects to the area which attracted bats to the area. These are additional attributes of the history of Halloween. Masks and costumes were worn* in an attempt to mimic the evil spirits or appease* them.
The ancient Gaels believed that on October 31, the boundaries* between the worlds of the living and the dead overlapped* and the deceased* would come back to life and cause havoc* such as sickness* or damaged* crops*.
VOCABULARY:
Boundary: frontera
Overlapped: sobreposar-se
Deceased: mort
Havoc: lios
Sickness: malalties
Damaged: mal
Crops: cultius
Worn: usat
Appease: calmar
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