2013/11/21

HALLOWEEN IN IRELAND


In Ireland, Halloween is a cultural event. Samhain is the name for the month of November, which is when celebrated. The medieval Irish festival of Samhain marked the end of the harvest, the days are shorter and the nights longest. On Halloween night, adults and children dress up as ghost, ghouls, zombies, witches and goblins.The city of Derry is where it is
most celebrated, organized on the island, in the form of a street carnival and fireworks display. The house are adorned with orange pumpkins or turnips carved with scary faces, lights or candles are placed inside. The tradicional Halloween cake in Ireland is the barmbrack, which is a fruit bread. They also games are typical apples and bonfires and trick or treat. HAPPY HALLOWEEN!



Aingery Garay Castiñeira









HALLOWEEN IN IRELAND

  Halloween is celebrated in Ireland since ancient times. There was celebrated under the name of "Samnhain Night" (November night). The medieval Irish festival of Samnahain marked the end of the harvest, heralding shorter days and the "darker half" of the year. It is linked to the dead revisiting the moetal world, large communal bomfires and associated lore.

   In halloween, children and adults dress up as creatures of the night (zombies, witches, ghosts, globings ...). Houses are frequently adorned with orange pumpking, or traditional turnip intro scary faces; lights or candeles are sometimes placed inside the carving, resulting in an eerie effect. The traditional Halloween cake in Ireland is the barmbrack which is a fruit bread.

   Games are often played, such as bobbing for apples in which apples , peanuts, and other nuts and fruit and some small coins are placed in a basin of water. The apples and nuts float, but the coins, which sink, are harder to catch.


   By: Oier Santamaria Txapartegi 6.D

2013/11/20

HALLOWEEN IN JAPAN

In Japan, they celebrate the O-bon festival. It has got a budisht origin.  The O-bon festival is celebrated in the memory of the dead people on the thirteenth of August.  The kids go trick or trating around the houses of the neigbourhood. In Japan there are traditions too. They put water and food in front  of the dead people.


By:Óscar González