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Did you know that in China there is no Halloween?
你知不知道中国没有万圣节？

🎃Happy Halloween! 👻

Do you know WHY we celebrate Halloween?! 

😱Halloween originated over 2000 years ago, in what today is the British Isles😱🇬🇧

🌀The Celts believed that during the time when the SEASONS passed from SUMMER to WINTER, the barrier between the REAL WORLD and the SPIRITUAL WORLD was WEAK! 🌎

👻This allowed SPIRITS to walk on Earth👻

🧙🏼‍♀️The Celts wore COSTUMES to scare these ghosts away! 🎃

Halloween is celebrated every year on the 31st of October. People dress up in costumes, children go trick-or-treating and everyone watched scary films with their friends and families. 

But what is the history behind Halloween?

Halloween originated from the Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced like [s-ow-in]). It marked the time of year when seasons changed and the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred. 
The Celts of ancient Ireland and Scotland would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off these ghosts. This festival is supposed to have come from pagan roots, which makes Halloween a pre-Christian tradition.

Over time as Christianity took over the Celtic lands, Halloween was eventually blended with other Christian traditions. 
The church celebrated All Saints' (All Hallows') Day on the 1st of November. With this came All Hallow's Eve (31st of October), eventually becoming Halloween.  
It’s widely believed today that the church was attempting to replace the Celtic festival of Samhain with a related, church-sanctioned holiday.

During the 19th Century when many Irish people immigrated to America, fleeing the famine in their own country, they brought the tradition of Halloween with them. This helped to popularise the festival and eventually developed it into the holiday we all know today.

Was any of this information new to you? Where did you think Halloween originated from? 

Happy Halloween everyone!

🎃🎃🕸my student wearing her halloween costume 🎃🎃🕷

El Trauco (EXTRACT)

#Halloween 🎃👻 

El Trauco, un enano feo y perverso, pero con esposa. Narrada por Karina Cárcamo
https://www.italki.com/en/teacher/7570654

Full episode
#Spotify
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Pombero

#Halloween 🎃👻 

La profe chío Garcete me cuenta una historia de un ser paraguayo que te podría sacar un f4rt. 

Rocío Garcete 
https://www.italki.com/en/teacher/6909942 

#spotify

La Tulivieja 

#Halloween 🎃👻 

Detrás de una bella muchacha, se esconde una escalofriante historia. 

Ft. Allys Johan (Panamá) 
https://www.italki.com/en/teacher/10464776

La Mocuana y La Carretanagua Ft. Celeste Sáenz (Nicaragua)

#Halloween  🎃👻

Celeste Sáenz me contó dos leyendas de su país, Nicaragua.

https://www.italki.com/en/teacher/11134200

Halloween is a holiday celebrated each year on October 31.  The tradition originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, when people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off ghosts.