WHAT IS HALLOWEEN

1)                   Halloween is a a traditional folk and pagan festival originated in the Anglo-Celtic Isles celebrated on the evening of October 31 , the Eve of All Saints . Its Name Is a contraction of English.

2)  Halloween is now celebrated mainly in Ireland , in Britain , the United States , in Canada , in Australia , in New Zealand and, to a lesser extent in France . The best known modern tradition wants children dress up in scary costumes like ghosts costumes, witches, monsters or vampires and go ring the door asking for treats with the formula ! Trick or treat . 

3)  It is from the viii ^th  century under Pope Gregory III (731-741) and in the following century, under Pope Gregory IV (827-844), that the Catholic Church introduced the Toussaint dated 1 ^st November operating a syncretism with the festivals of Samhain 

                     

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BY JOUD EL ARAB  4E2