万圣节前夜Halloween.doc

万圣节前夜（Halloween）
Halloween, or Hallowe’en, is a holiday celebrated on the night of October 31. 活动
Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, ghost tours, bonfires, costume parties, visiting "haunted houses", carving Jack-o'-lanterns, reading scary stories and watching horror movies.
Today' school dances and neighborhood parties called "block parties" are popular among young and old alike. More and more adults celebrate Halloween. They dress up like historical or political figures and go to masquerade parties（化妆舞会）. In larger cities, costumed children and their parents gather at shopping malls early in the evening. Stores and businesses give parties with games and treats for the children.Teenagers enjoy costume dances at their schools and the more outrageous the costume the better!
Certain pranks（恶作剧）such as soaping car windows and tipping over garbage cans are expected. But partying and pranks are not the only things that Halloweeners enjoy doing. Some collect money to buy food and medicine for needy children around the world.

开始时间
Irish immigrants（爱尔兰移民） 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 celebrated in several countries of the Western world, most commonly in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Ireland, Puerto Rico, Japan, New Zealand, and occasionally in parts of Australia. In Sweden the All Saints' official holiday takes place on the first Saturday of November.
起源
Halloween has its origins in the ancient Celtic festival known as Samhain. The festival of Samhain is a celebration of the end of the harvest season in Gaelic culture, and is sometimes regarded as the "Celtic（凯尔特人） New Year". Traditionally, the festival was a time used by the ancient pagans to take stock of supplies and slaughter livestock for winter stores. The ancient Gaels believed that on October 31, now known as Halloween, the boundary（分界线） between the alive and the deceased （已故的） dissolved（结束）, and the dead become dangerous for the living by causing problems such as sickness or damaged crops. The festivals would frequently involve bonfires, into which bones of slaughtered livestock were thrown. Costumes and masks were also worn at the festivals in an attempt to mimic the evil spirits or placate them.
食物
Caramel Apples，太妃糖苹果（toffee apples）粟米糖 candy corn热苹果酒 （Hot apple cider）烘南瓜子（Roasted pumpkin seeds）糖果candy， 女巫状的香料生姜饼（Witch like the spice ginger cake）
服装
南瓜灯（Jack-o-lantern），幽灵（ghost），僵尸（Corpse），吸血鬼The Vampire，巫婆witch，科学怪人Frankenstein，精灵spirit，半人马The Centaur，狼人The werewolf，魔鬼devil，哥布林Brother Bollinger
不死火焰鸟Immortal flame bird，牛头人The Minotaur，美杜莎Medusa
泰坦The Titans，石像鬼Gargoyle，蜥蜴人Lizard man，木乃伊mummy，矮人dwarf，无头骑士The headless horseman，骷髅Human skeleton