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HALLOWEEN TRIVIA
This picture
is for the holiday Halloween which will be here before we know it! Halloween
is a great time for parents and children to have some fun together making
costumes, carving pumpkins, and cooking treats!
It is also
the spookiest time of the year! A time filled with ghosts, witches, and
big bags of candy! Yes, it is Halloween time!
Here is some
Halloween trivia for you:
There are
many different thoughts on the history of Halloween. What we do know is
that Halloween began hundreds of years ago as an old Celtic fire celebration
or festival called Samhain. The people who celebrate with a Celtic fire
celebration were known as Celts. The Celts lived in the places that we
now know as England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. They thought and truly
believed that the gods told the sun to leave the earth in the fall. When
the sun left, all their crops would die and the weather would get colder!
To calm the gods down, the Celts built campfires and dressed up in animal
costumes. What an interesting start to the holiday we now know of as Halloween!
Trick-or-treating
is based on an Old Irish practice. It is believed that poor Irish people
would go from door to door to collect money, bread, cheese, eggs, butter,
nuts, apples, or whatever people would give. Another way to view trick-or-treating
is that rich people would give food to the poor people of the village
on Halloween night. These rich people thought that the ghosts would look
highly on them for doing such a good deed.
Trick-or-treating
was brought to North America in the 1800's.
Read on to
our Fun Facts section for some delicious
Halloween food for you to make as a family!
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