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Halloween is a holiday from Celtic culture that takes place primarily in the United States on the night of October 31. Children are disguised for the occasion and walk through the streets demanding candy door to door. After calling at the door children uttered the phrase "Trick or Treat" or "Sweet or trick" (from the phrase "trick or treat"). If adults give them candy, money or any other type of reward, is interpreted to have accepted the deal. If on the other hand they refuse, the boys will spend a little joke, the most common throw eggs or shaving foam against the door.

The word Halloween is a derivation of the phrase All Hallow's Eve (Eve Day Saints). It was held in Anglo-Saxon countries, mainly in Canada, the United States, Ireland and the United Kingdom. But now celebrated in almost all Western countries with a greater or lesser presence.

Its origins go back to the Celts , and the feast was exported to the United States by Irish immigrants especially in the nineteenth century, more or less toward 1846. The expansive force of the culture of USA That Halloween has been popular in other countries. On Halloween, in modern times is considered an American holiday.

The history of Halloween goes back more than 2,500 years, when the year ended Celtic at the end of the summer, the very day on October 31 in our calendar. Livestock was taken from pastures to the stables for the winter. That last day, it was assumed that the spirits could leave the cemetery and take over the bodies of the living to resurrect. To avoid this, villages Celtic dirty houses and "decorated" with bones, skulls and other unpleasant things, so that the dead rising from long scared. Hence comes the tradition of decorating houses with sinister motives in the current eve of All Saints' and the costumes.

The journey in search of candy child probably link to the Dutch tradition of the Feast of St. Maarten.

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While not conceived a festival of Halloween without this vegetable, pumpkin is not a symbol of the primitive own Halloween or Samhain celebrating Celtic peoples of Europe. The Irish emigrants discovered pumpkin (pumpkin) to arrive as colonists to America (see "History of Halloween"). To find the origin of this fruit symbolic of the night of witches and their use as candil terrifying, you have to know the legend of Jack or Jack-o-lantern. Also we show different templates to cut pumpkins (pumpkin carving patterns), as well ambientarás so impeccable and realistic Halloween party at your house, which in American homes called "Halloween decores." Today, on the night of Halloween masquerade American children and go from house to house with a candle inserted in a pumpkin previously emptied. When you open the doors of the houses these shout "trick or treat" (trick or treatment), to imply that spent a joke whom no sort of a bonus, delicacy or money.