PPT-What is Halloween? Reflection week beginning 31 October 2016

Why do we have festivals and celebrations Every celebration we have is linked to the natural world around us At Easter we celebrate new life we can see in the plants and animals In Christianity it is a celebration of new life via the Resurrection of Jesus. 1 miles At the Downtown Alachua County Headquarters Library we hosted our annual Halloween Reading Bash. We had an amazing turnout! Families enjoyed free face painting, crafts, and candy. With help from our sponsor Project Princess, we had a special story time with Princess . Origins and Traditions. Origins. Halloween began two thousand years ago in Ireland, England, and Northern France with the ancient religion of the Celts (Paganism). . They celebrated their New. . Year on November 1. By 43 A.D., the Roman Empire had conquered the majority of Celtic territory. In the course of the four hundred years that they ruled the Celtic lands, two festivals of Roman origin were combined with the traditional Celtic celebration of . Celebration of Halloween began in Ireland about 1000 AD. Irish immigrants brought these traditions to the United States. Halloween was originally a pagan festival named “. Samhain. ” meaning “end of summer”. BY: Cassidy Goldman. Why do people celebrate Halloween: A Closer Look. Do people enjoy taking on a different identity?. Closer look. Catfish. Second Life. The Start of a Holiday. Started as a Celtic holiday of . HALLOWEEN QUIZ . 1..  . Halloween is celebrated on ___.. a. February 14th. b. July 14th. c. October 31st. d. December 25th. HALLOWEEN QUIZ . 2. The word comes from medieval England's All Hallows' ___.. The first . H. alloween was started by the Celts 2000 years ago.. On the first of November the Celts celebrated . Samhain. .. On the night before . Samhain. , the 31. st. of October they believed the dead came to life as spirits .. By Kelly Koch, RA, University of South Florida. Haunted History. Halloween's origins date back more than 2,000 years. On what we consider November 1, Europe's Celtic peoples celebrated their New Year's Day, called Samhain (SAH-win).. In the United States children wear costumes and masks and go trick-or-treating. . Many of them carve jack-o'-. lantens. out of pumpkins. Fortunetelling and storytelling about ghosts and witches are popular activities. . Table of Contents. The beginnings of Halloween pg. 3. The First Jack . O’lantern. pg. 4. Dia. De Los . Muertos. pg. 5. An American Halloween pg. 6 . Halloween Quiz pg. 7-14. Make a Jack O’ Lantern pg. 15 . October in the United States,. Canada, Ireland and England.. It has roots in the . Celtic.  . festival of . Sambain. .  . and the . Christian . holiday.  . All Saint’s Day. The . name . Sambain. st. , All Hallows Day (or All Saints Day) is a Catholic day of observance in honor of saints.. In Mexico, they celebrate El Dia de los Muertos or the Day of the Dead starting the evening of October 31. Halloween's origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of . Samhain. . The Celts lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom, and northern France. They celebrated their new year on November 1. This day marked the end of summer and of the harvest, and marked the beginning of the dark, cold winter. The cold winter was a time of year that was often associated with human death at this time. .