TEN FUN FACTS ON HALLOWEEN

By Jess Dalmas

SPOOKY SEASON IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER SO WHY NOT LEARN SOME FUN FACTS!

1.Halloween comes from a Celtic festival for the dead

2.Halloween used to be called All Hallow’s Eve

3.People dress up for Halloween to ward off ghosts and scare demonic spirits,this was introduced in the eighteenth century

4.Bonfires are lit as protection from ghosts and to keep the evil spirit away

5.Carved pumpkins are used to attract good spirits into people's houses so they are safe

6.Pumpkins are carved and lit to put outside peoples houses for protection against the evil

7.The first pumpkin was carved in the nineteenth century in parts of Ireland and the Scottish Highlands

8.The frequent colour of orange during halloween symbolises the fires that warm up the cold nights,the changing colour of leaves and the yield harvested during the season.As Well as the burning spirits and and their voices.

9.Many of the Irish found that pumpkins were good for carving and decorating due to the lack that would grow in Ireland

10.”Halloween” originates from “All Hallows Eve”