HALLOWEEN TRADITIONS!

Our students will have to investigate if there is a festival, songs. games... whose source is the Halloween of the Celts in their towns or countries.

Ntra. Sra. de la Antigua
Mérida
SPAIN

At the time of the chestnuts, the seller chestnuts
bring chestnuts from the mountain to the square town.
The skirt is too big.
The shirt fits close
Shoes make them, cluck, cluck,
They sing and dance like clockwork.

It seems that of the tradition of eating these foods comes from the fact that during All Saints night, the night before All Souls' Day in the Christian tradition, bell ringers would ring bells in commemoration of the dead into the arly morning. Friends and relatives would help with this task, and everyone would eat these foods for sustenance.

Its origins are in an ancient ritual festival of the dead, Halloween or the Celtic Samhain.

Ntra. Sra. de la Antigua
Mérida
SPAIN

"The Roman chronicles tell that in the lands of western Asturias, called pésicos lived, probably a tribe of Celtic origin, and according to these writers, they kept wild ways, one of which would be to let it dry bones of his enemies dead, then stick them in a row on the floor and try to break them by throwing them against the skull itself, to prove so in the other world and this enemy would be able to overcome "

RAFA AND ANDRÉS, our PE teachers are teaching us how to play bowlings.

Halloween is an old word for Hallows Evenning, the night before ´All Hallows´or All Saint´s .

On that night of the year, ghosts and wiches walk free. Well, that´s the traditional story.

A long time ago people were afraid and stayed at home on Halloween.

But now , there are a lot of parties. At this parties ,people wear masks and they dress as ghosts, wichfrom es or monsters.

Some people make special Halloween lamps a large fruit, the pumpkin. They take out the middle of the pumpkin, they cut holes for the eyes, nose and mouth. The put a candle inside the pumpkin.

Francisco Giner de los Ríos

Mérida

Spain

These are the illustration of Halloween tradition described by Giner de los Rios

In Poland we don't celebrate Halloween because it's not in our tradition. We don’t have festivals, songs and games whose source is the Halloween of Celts. Our students find out about Halloween from English lessons.

This is one of the song that we teach them:

Witches flying through the air.

Witches, witches everywhere.

Witches here, witches there.

Witches, witches everywhere.

Witches hiding in the dark.

Witches dancing in the park.

Witches here, witches there.

Witches, witches everywhere.

Witches flying through the air.

Witches, witches everywhere.

Big black hats on their bright green hair.

Witches, witches everywhere.

Witches here, witches there.

Riding on a broomstick, flying through the air.

Witches here, witches there.

Witches, witches everywhere.

Teresa