Halloween
Halloween is a party from the Celtic culture that takes place primarily in the United States on the evening of October 31. Children dress up for the occasion and walk through the streets asking for candy from door to door. After calling at the door children uttered the phrase "trick or treated", "Sweet or trick or trick-or-(from the phrase trick or treat). If adults give them candy, money or other reward, is interpreted to have accepted the deal. If on the other 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 of Holy Day). Was celebrated in Anglo-Saxon countries, mainly in Canada, Ireland and the UK. But today is celebrated in almost all Western countries with more or fewer. Its origins date back to the Celts, [1] and the party was exported to the United States by Irish immigrants especially in the nineteenth century, more or less towards 1846. The expansive force of the culture of EE. UU. fact that Halloween has been popular in other countries. On Halloween, in modern times is considered an American holiday. The history of Halloween goes back over 2500 years, when Celtic finished the year at the end of the summer, precisely on October 31 in our calendar. The cattle were brought from the 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, the villages dirty Celtic houses and "decorated" with bones, skulls and other unpleasant things, so that the dead are guided by these to reach a better place. Hence comes the tradition of decorating homes with sinister motives in today's Halloween costumes as well. The journey in search of candy children are likely to link with the Dutch tradition of the Feast of St. Martin