Tuesday, October 30, 2007

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Halloween

Halloween, or Halloweens, is a holiday celebrated on the night of October 31. Traditional activities include trick-or-treating, Halloween festivals, bonfires, costume parties, visiting "haunted houses" and viewing horror films. Halloween originated from the Pagan festival Samhain, celebrated among the Celts of Ireland and Great Britain. Irish and Scottish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century. Other western countries embraced the holiday in the late twentieth century. Halloween is now celebrated in several parts of the western world, most commonly in Ireland, the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, and the United KingdomThe meaning of the gourd.


It is said that the witches were using the crania of the human victims and were adorning them with candles between the basins of the eyes and the nose. When the Irish pagans came to The United States, they could not carry out these practices with human crania, so that gourds used.


Recipes:
-Packages of cookies with cheese
-Chewing gums without sugar
-Toothpicks (bread) of cheese
-Boxes of juices
-Small boxes of dried fruit or you spend(pass)
-Packages of instantaneous chocolate
-Dried fruit with rind

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