Презентация на тему HALLOWEEN. Traditions, poems and songs

go from door to door at dusk gleefully calling

“Trick or Treat!”. The holiday gets its name from “All Hallows Evening” or the evening before All Saints Day, November 1, according to the western European Christian chirch calendar. However, in traditions date bake to pre-christian Celtic beliefs once prevalent in what is known as Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. Irish immigrants brought these customs with them to the United States.

new year, a time when ghostsor evil spirits walked

the earth and migled mischievously with the living. Costumes and jack-o-lanterns were thought to protect people from any harm they might cause. A jack-o-lantern is a face carved into one side of a hallowed out pumpkin in which a lighted candle has been placed. This is why the Halloween colours are orange and black. Even today small children are told that any house with a jack-o-lantern burning in the window is a safe place to go trick-or-treating. The custom of trick or treating comes from when children dressed in costumes on All Souls’ Day and went from house to house begging for soul cakes.

the last few years, school, church and neighborhood parties

are replacing the custom of trick or treating from house to house. More and more adults are also celebrating Halloween with masquerade parties in which they dress up like political and historical figures, or just plain old scary fellows from recent horror films like ghosts, vampires, goblins, Frankenstein, etc. Whitches flying on broomsticks with black cats, skeletons, spiders and haunted houses are other symbols of Halloween.

for apples. One person at a time must get

an apple out of a tub of water without using his hands and only by sinking his or her face into the water anf biting the apple. The party may start or end with a Halloween costume parade, wherein those with the best or scariest costumes receive prizes. Telling scary stories or “ghost’ stories while huddled together by candlelight or around a fire outside is one of the highlights of Halloween night. Any story will do, but it must be spoken in a low, tense voice and reach a starling climax, as does the following story told in Britain and in certain US eastern coastal states.

woman who lived all by herself, and she was

very lonely. Sitting in the kitchen one night, she said, “OH, I wish I had some company.” No sooner had she spoken than down the chimney tumbled two feet from which the flash had rotted. The old woman’s eyes bulged with terror.
Then two legs dropped to the hearth and attached themselves to the feet.
Then a body tumbled down, then two arms, and a man’s head. As the old woman watched, the parts came together into a great, tall man. The man danced around and around
the room. Faster and faster he went. Then he
stopped, and he looked into her eyes.
“What do you come for?” she asked in a
small voice that shivered and shook.
“What do I come for?” he said. “I come –
for YOU !!!”
(The narrator shouts and jumps at the nearest
person.)

is full and bright
And we shall see what can’t

be seen
On any other night:

Skeletons and ghosts and ghouls,
Grinning goblins fighting duels,
Werewolves rising from their tombs,
Witches on their magic brooms.

In masks and gowns we haunt the street
And knock on doors for trick or treat.
Tonight we are the king and queen,
For oh tonight it’s Halloween!

us something good to eat.
Give us candy, give us

cake
Give us something sweet to take.
Give us cookies, fruit and gum,
Hurry up and give us some.
You had better do it quick
Or we’ll surely play a trick.
Trick or treat, trick or treat,
Give us something good to eat.

an apple,
For an apple, apple, apple,
But no apple, apple,

apple,
Not an apple can I get.

Oh I cannot catch an apple,
Not one apple, apple, apple.
Though my sister got an apple,
All I got was soaking wet.

children make my famous grin
Then I’m a scary fellow.

the well to wash my toe,
When I got back,

my chickens were gone,
What time is it, old witch?
“One, two, three, four, five, six,
Seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve!”

witches,
Four little, five little, six little witches,
Seven little,

eight little, nine little witches, Ten little witches in the sky!

Ten little, nine little, eight little witches,
Seven little, six little, five little witches,
Four little, three little, two little witches,
One little witch,
Bye – bye!

a gate.
The first one said, “Oh my, it’s getting

late.”
The second one said, “There are witches in the air.”
The third one said, “But we don’t care!”
The fourth one said, “Let’s run and run and run!”
The fifth one said, “I’m ready fr some fun.”
Ooooooo o o o went the wind and out went the light,
And the five little pumpkins rolled out of sight.