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1、最新关于万圣节的来历的英语介绍 万圣节的来历英语英语资源网权威发布关于万圣节的来历的英语介绍，更多关于万圣节的来历的英语介绍相关信息请访问英语资源网。Halloween (or Halloween) is an annual holiday observed on October 31, which commonly includes activities such as trick-or-treating, attending costume parties, carving jack-o-lanterns, bonfires, apple bobbing, visiting haunted

2、 attractions, playing pranks, telling scary stories, and watching horror films.Historian Nicholas Rogers, exploring the origins of Halloween, notes that while some folklorists have detected its origins in the Roman feast of Pomona, the goddess of fruits and seeds, or in the festival of the dead call

3、ed Parentalia, it is more typically linked to the Celtic festival of Samhain, whose original spelling was Samuin (pronounced sow-an or sow-in).The name is derived from Old Irish and means roughly summers end.Snap-Apple Night (1832) by Daniel Maclise.Depicts apple bobbing and divination games at a Ha

4、lloween party in Blarney, Ireland.The name Halloween and many of its present-day traditions derive from the Old English era.The word Halloween is first attested in the 16th century and represents a Scottish variant of the fuller All-Hallows-Even (evening), that is, the night before All Hallows Day.4 Although the phrase All Hallows is found in Old English (ealra hlgena m?ssed?g, mass-day of all saints), All-Hallows-Even is itself not attested until 1556.第 2 页 共 2 页