customs in America Halloween HALLOWEEN Halloween

customs in America Halloween

HALLOWEEN • Halloween is celebrated on 31 October, the eve of all saints Day. Halloween is traditionally celebrated in English-speaking countries, although the official holiday is not.

LAMP JACK • The main symbol of the holiday is the socalled Lamp Jack. He is a pumpkin, which cut a sinister grinning face; inside the pumpkin is placed a lighted candle. For the first time "lighting Jack" appeared in the UK, but originally for their production used a Swede or turnip. It was believed that such fruit left in all saints Day around the house will repel from him the evil spirits. When the tradition of celebrating Halloween has spread in the United States, lamps were made of pumpkins, more accessible and affordable

COSTUMES • The clothing in costumes is a relatively recent element of the holiday. Costumes for Halloween has evolved greatly over the past century. The original costumes were ugly emaciated images of people's faces. It looked festive and not scary enough. However, by early 2000 the costumes acquired increasingly vivid images and the celebration turned into a show. The main theme of the costumes for Halloween are different evil spirits or supernatural characters, however popular and suits completely arbitrary subjects, although the main motive continues to be the most common. So, in the 2000 s, among the costumes on Halloween were to be found not only costumes of vampires, werewolves or witches, and fairies, Queens, figures of pop culture

THE TRICK-OR-TREAT • The tradition of dressing up in costumes and walk from house to house, begging for sweets, appeared in the middle Ages and was originally to do with Christmas. In England Ireland poor from its very beginning went from house to house and begging for the so-called "spiritual cakes" on all saints ' Day (1 November), promising in return to pray for the souls of deceased relatives of the owners

FESTIVE TABLE • Since the holiday falls on the harvest time of apples, most Halloween sweets based on apples. Specially for the celebration prepare Apple caramel, apples in syrup (sometimes with the addition of nuts), toffee Apple. First, there was a tradition to give the children apples-candy, but it faded quickly because of the urban legend that said that in such an evil candy people put pins and needles. Although such cases have been reported several times, they never led to serious injury. In turn, in North America popular candy root and pumpkin candy, candy corn, and pumpkin, respectively. Candy corn is a candy made from sugar, corn syrup, artificial coloring and binders. Their recipe and method of cooking practically has not changed, the production of candy materials are still based on manual work. Despite its name, candy pumpkin is a variation of the previous sweets. The main difference between "pumpkin" from "corn" is the use of honey, more abundant add marshmallows and, finally, the frequently used special non-greasy cream

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