Презентация на тему по английскому языку на тему: Сходства и различия праздников Хэллуина и Дня Ивана Купалы

and the Day of Ivan Kupala: similarities and differences»
The

purpose of our research work is comparing two holidays: Halloween and the Day of Ivan Kupala.
The problem: Halloween has quickly spread in Russia at that time though the holiday of Ivan Kupala we don’t know much.
The hypothesis: we assume that the Russians are not familiar with the holiday of Ivan Kupala and not poorly informed about foreign Halloween.
Tasks:
• To find out the customs of the celebration of Halloween and Day of Ivan Kupala, their superstitions;
• Find similarities and differences of holidays;
• To compare the popularity of holidays;
• To do research.

is more than two thousand years. The origin of

this holiday goes from the Celtic culture.
Supernatural beings could cross over to the material world.
That’s why people dressed just as they, and went from house to house, asking for food for the evil forces.

"trick-or-treating". It is to "pay off" with sweets to

children begging for sweets. Otherwise they commit a prank.
Traditionally, Halloween is celebrated around the fire, with songs and dances, scary stories and legends about spirits, sorcerers, witches and all other evil spirits.
There appeared a tradition to carve faces in a pumpkin and put candles inside it.

of Ivan Kupala

spread of Christianity in Europe and it is celebrated

in the days of the summer solstice, from 20th to 22th June.
There is a rumor that on the night of Ivan Kupala’s day a fern flower has a magical power. According to the legend, if this amazing red flower finds a guy and a girl, their marriage will be very happy.
People believe that in the day of Ivan Kupala rituals have a miraculous power that can make any person healthy and happy.

night all the evil spirits become very active. People

sing songs-prayers to mermaids, littered the thresholds and window sills with nettles to protect themselves from witches, collected and dried grass, scaring away any evil spirits and disease.

You mustn’t go sleep in this day because you can be hurt by evil spirits and get a lot of troubles. So the holiday lasts until the morning.
On this night, the girls divined on the wreaths and floated them on the river – where to bank sticks, there true love lives.

of Ivan Kupala
There are two holidays in Russia that

are associated with the evil spirit: a celebration of Ivan Kupala and Halloween. And they are the opposites of each other. These holidays have similarities and differences.

Kupala
On the popularization of Halloween there is a whole

industry works – Halloween costumes, masks, carved pumpkins is only part of what works for the occasion. In America at the end of October hit record sales on candy. Also a lot of movies are dedicated to Halloween.
The Ivan Kupala day has become a source of inspiration for many great people. Its traditions and rituals had brilliant display N. In.Gogol in the story "Evenings on a farm near Dikanka", Russian playwright and storyteller A. Ostrovsky "snow maiden" Rimsky-Korsakov Opera of the same name. One of the most mystical days of the year believed, and Sergei Yesenin and Nikolai Gumilev.