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For more than 3000 years, Scotland and IRELAND have celebrated THE NEW YEAR from October 31 until NOVEMBER 1, following an ancient GAELIC (or PAGAN) calendar.
Samhuinn is for celebrating the DEAD. In Scotland, people believe that the festival helps souls TRANSITION after people have died. During the Samhuinn festival, people and animals dance around large BONFIRES, because FIRE is a SYMBOL of PURIFICATION to Gaelic people.
The Hungry Ghost Festival takes place in JULY. During the festival, DEAD people come back to visit their families, and the families are expected to BURN GIFTS for the dead. The families buy PAPER copies of food, money, cars, and PHONES to burn.
Chuseok is sometimes called Hangawi, is known as the KOREAN THANKSGIVING. It is a fall HARVEST festival, celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th month.
For Chuseok, many Korean people visit their HOMETOWNS, eat TRADITIONAL food together, have a MEMORIAL service for their ANCESTORS, and visit FAMILY GRAVES.
There are also CONCERTS and OPERAS to celebrate the festival.
People in Scotland invented the tradition of carving TURNIPS into faces and lighting a CANDLE inside. We do this in Canada, too, but we use PUMPKINS. Carved turnips or pumpkins are called JACK-O-LANTERNS.
MICROFICTION is just another name for VERY short stories. It is very common to read and write microfiction at Halloween, because microfiction is so short, so it is easy to make the stories spooky.
Example: “There was a picture on my phone of me sleeping, but I don't know how it got there, because
I live alone.”
Walpurgis Night is a celebration from APRIL 30 to MAY 1 in Germany and EASTERN EUROPE, to celebrate SAINT WALPURGIS. Saint Walpurgis fought pests, rabies, whooping cough, and WITCHCRAFT. Unlike other Halloween-like celebrations, Walpurgis is a CHRISTIAN holiday.
Halloween used to be called ALL HALLOWS EVE and it was based on the old belief that there is ONE DAY A YEAR when DEAD people will rise from their graves and visit LIVING people.
Originally, people would dress up in costumes as GHOSTS or DEMONS to celebrate this day and confuse the ghosts.
To celebrate Walpurgis, people TRAVEL to her TOMB in Germany and LIGHT FIRES, wear WITCH and DEMON costumes, dance, play loud music, and set off FIREWORKS to scare away WITCHES.
Obon happens in the middle of AUGUST. Japanese people believe that for about ONE WEEK the DEAD come back to visit their FAMILIES or HOME. There is DANCING, LANTERNS, and FOOD to celebrate.
Over the last hundred years or so, Halloween has become a holiday where people can DRESS UP IN COSTUMES of any kind to have fun, and children can get candy for visiting their NEIGHBOURS while wearing their costumes.
In Kyoto, they light FIRES on the mountain OBON, and each one has a FAREWELL message for the spirits going home. This is called GOSAN-NO-OKURIBI.
Halloween is a special occasion that happens on OCTOBER 31ST every year, primarily in NORTH AMERICA. (Unfortunately, Halloween is NOT a holiday from WORK or SCHOOL in CANADA.)
Other countries have holidays that are very SIMILAR to Halloween (they also include COSTUMES and CANDY), but with a few important differences...
In England, there is a similar holiday called Guy Fawkes Day, on NOVEMBER 5. Guy Fawkes Day is about celebrating that the KING of England wasn't killed by ASSASSINS using GUNPOWDER, over 400 years ago. People in England celebrate the King's survival with FIREWORKS, which are made from GUNPOWDER.
Guy Fawkes Day is named after THE MAN who tried to kill the king. When people celebrate Guy Fawkes Day, some people are celebrating that one man was BRAVE enough to try and change the GOVERNMENT. Other people celebrate Guy Fawkes Day because they are GRATEFUL that one man could not stop the government. Either way, many people wear A MASK designed to look like Guy Fawkes.
Borgo a Mozzano is a town in Italy. Their Halloween festival ends on October 31, at DEVIL'S BRIDGE. It is a holiday to play games about the DEVIL and WITCHES.
On the bridge, the people RECREATE the story of a NOBLEWOMAN named Lucida. The people dress in COSTUMES and throw a pretend LUCIDA off the bridge and into the water.
Castañada is also known as the CHESTNUT FESTIVAL. This festival is celebrated in several SPANISH, PORTUGUESE and FRENCH speaking countries.
During Castanada (which has different names in different places), people collect FIREWOOD and NUTS (like chestnuts and pine nuts) from the forest. GIRLS bring CHESTNUTS to the festival, and BOYS bring WINE. This festival has BONFIRES, where people DANCE, SING, JUMP, and PLAY in the ashes of the fires.
Up until 1880, there would be a cat TRAPPED in the barrel, which would run away when the barrel was BROKEN. Fastelavn also includes special baked DESSERTS and PARADES.
Gai Jatra means "COW FESTIVAL," and it happens at the end of SUMMER. The people in Nepal believe that COWS help the dead TRANSITION to the other world.
Children dress up as COWS for the festival, but there are also other costumes, music, food, and FACE PAINT.
Fastelavn is a CARNIVAL holiday where children dress up and visit their neighbours to get TREATS or MONEY. They also have a game called CAT IN A BARREL which is like a PINATA (children hit the barrel until the candy falls out).
In the village of TRASMOZ, in Spain there is a WITCH of the year" contest every year. The village has only 96 people in it, but the town has been CURSED and EXCOMMUNICATED from the CATHOLIC CHURCH.