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1st JANUARY
EASTER

25th DECEMBER
GUY FAWKES DAY SPRING
MOTHER’S DAY 1st MAY
HALLOWEEN 5th NOVEMBER
MAY DAY 26th MARCH
VALENTINE’S DAY 31st OCTOBER
NEW YEAR’S DAY 14th FEBRUARY

1st JANUARY
EASTER

25th DECEMBER
GUY FAWKES DAY SPRING
MOTHER’S DAY 1st MAY
HALLOWEEN 5th NOVEMBER
MAY DAY 26th MARCH
VALENTINE’S DAY 31st OCTOBER
NEW YEAR’S DAY 14th FEBRUARY

sweethearts. One of the earliest popular symbols of the

day is Cupid, the Roman god of Love, who is represented by the image of a young boy with bow and arrow.

popular belief that wearing 3 new things on this

holiday will bring good luck. Traditionally its parades of people in bright new spring clothes are held on this day. Another custom is decorating eggs.

Saints’ Day. People dress up in costumes and masks

over their faces. A favourite custom of the holiday is to make a jack-o’-lantern (the children cut the eyes, nose and mouth in the pumpkin). They light a candle inside the pumpkin to scare their friends.

old year out and the New Year in. One

of the traditions of the day is the First Footing. The first man to come into the house is very important. The Englishmen believe that he brings luck. This man (not a woman) must be healthy, young, pretty-looking. He brings presents - bread, a piece of coal or a coin.

Britain. It is the time when all the family

gets together round the tree decorated with toys and sweets. They often hang up large stockings for the presents. All families have dinners. They eat traditional dishes - turkey, duck, pudding.

It is customary to visit one's mother on that

day. Mother ought to be given a present - tea, flowers or a cake.

Middle Ages. In the very early morning, young girls

went to the fields and washed their faces with dew. They believed this made them very beautiful for a year after that. Also on this day the young men of each village tried to win prizes with their bows and arrows, and people danced round the maypole. Many English-villages still have a maypole, and on this holiday, the villagers dance round it.

almost every town and village in England one can

see fire burning, fireworks, cracking and lighting up the sky, small groups of children pulling round in a homemade cart, a figure that looks something like a man but consists of an old suit of clothes, stuffed with straw.