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1、最新万圣节英语：万圣节的介绍:关于万圣节的英语介绍英语资源网权威发布万圣节英语：万圣节的介绍，更多万圣节英语相关信息请访问英语资源网。Halloween, or Halloween, is a holiday celebrated on the night of October 31. Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, ghost tours, bonfires, costume parties, visiting haunted houses, carving Jack-o-lanterns, reading scary stor

2、ies and watching horror movies. Irish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century. Other western countries embraced the holiday in the late twentieth century. Halloween is celebrated in several countries of the Western world, most commonly in the United Ki

3、ngdom, the United States, Canada, Ireland, Puerto Rico, Japan, New Zealand, and occasionally in parts of Australia. In Sweden the All Saints official holiday takes place on the first Saturday of November.Halloween has its origins in the ancient Celtic festival known as Samhain. The festival of Samha

4、in is a celebration of the end of the harvest season in Gaelic culture, and is sometimes regarded as the Celtic New Year. Traditionally, the festival was a time used by the ancient pagans to take stock of supplies and slaughter livestock for winter stores. The ancient Gaels believed that on October

5、31, now known as Halloween, the boundary between the alive and the deceased dissolved, and the dead become dangerous for the living by causing problems such as sickness or damaged crops. The festivals would frequently involve bonfires, into which bones of slaughtered livestock were thrown. Costumes and masks were also worn at the festivals in an attempt to mimic the evil spirits or placate them.第 2 页 共 2 页