万圣节万圣节制作人：孙云霞 邢台职业技术学院

October 31st is Halloween

• Halloween is one of the world’s oldest holidays, celebrated in several countries around the globe including the USA, Canada, England, Ireland, Scotland, Mexico, Latin America, and Spain.

Origin 起源• For the ancient Celtic peoples, the New Year was

celebrated on November 1st of every year. This date marked the end of Summer and the beginning of Winter.

• This time of year was often associated with human death.

• The Celts believed that on the night before the new year, the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred as the dead searched for the afterlife.

Symbols 象征

Monster Actions

Ghost appears and disappears

Vampire drinks blood, sleeps in coffins

Witch flies on a broom

Werewolf transforms at full moon

Mummy wears bandages

Pirate attacks and steals from ships

Zombie comes back from death

What do children do on

Halloween?

• They trick or treat.• They wear costumes.• They carve pumpkin lanterns.• They watch scary movies.• They visit haunted houses.

It originated from an Irish myth about a man known as “Stingy Jack.” Stingy Jack one day invited the Devil to have a drink with him. Not wanting to pay for the drink, he tricked the Devil into turning himself into a coin, and then put the Devil into his pocket next to a cross that prevented the Devil from changing back into his original form.

Jack freed the Devil after the Devil promised not to bother Jack or, should he die, claim his soul.

Jack-o-lantern

Eventually, when Jack did die, God would not take him into Heaven, and the Devil, who had promised not to claim Jack’s soul, could not take him into Hell.

Thus, the Devil sent Jack’s spirit into the night with only a burning candle to light his way. Jack put the candle into a carved out turnip and has been roaming the Earth ever since.

The Irish began to refer to this ghostly figure as “Jack of the Lantern,” and then simply as “Jack-o-lantern.”

Jack-o-lantern