Halloween is one of the oldeste celebrations in the world. Is always celebrated on 31st October.Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, ghost tours, bonfires, costume parties, visiting haunted attractions, carving jack-o'-lanterns, reading scary stories, and watching horror movies.
Celebrating UK Halloween is a fun filled adventure with great costumes, decorations and lots of fun. The UK Halloween is the most creative of holidays, where people make their costumes and head out for fun and competition. The children get candy during the UK Halloween celebration.
Traditional festivals in United Kingdom:
In UK there is a traditional festival called Mischief Night.During the celebratin children knock on doors, demanding a treat( Trick or Treat)and people disguise themselves as witches,ghosts,pumpkins and spiders in order to obtain food and money.
Bobbing for apples is a well-established associated with Halloween. In the game, attempts are made with one's mouth only to catch an apple placed in a water-filled barrel. Once an apple is caught, it is sometimes peeled and tossed over the shoulder in the hope that the strips would fall into the shape of a letter, which would be the first initial of the participant's true love.
Other traditions include apple-bobbing and making toffee-apples and apple tarts.
In the old days people lit bonfires, to scared away evil spirits.They believed that light had power over darkness.
Today, people light candles in pumpkin lanterns and then put them outside their homes to frighten away witches and ghosts.
Sources:
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/Halloween/why.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween
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