Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Halloween and Day of Dead

HALLOWEEN
It is a most important holiday in the United Sates and it is celebrate on October 31st.
The traditional activities are the trick-or-treating, Halloween fetivals, costume parties, bonfires, visiting houses, ask for candiesand watch horror films.
The term Halloween is a shortened for All-halloween-eve as it is the even as it the evening of "All Hallows`Day", also know as "All Saints Day". It was a day of religious festival.
This day is very traditional in the United States bacause they celebrate the Day of the Witches on October 31st at nigth..

THE DAY OF DEADS
The day of Deads is more important for Mexico and it begins on October 31st and finish on November 2nd.
In November 1st, they celebrate the Day of the Angel Children or "Innocent aints" and November 2nd is it the Day of Staunch Deceased.
In Mexico it is traditional that people go to visit their families in the cementary and children.
At night, the children go to houses to ask for candies. In the school the children make parties with costumes and make rhymes about the dead called "Calaveritas".
The Day of Dead is the a more religious celebration, because the people go to church to celebrate and remember their deads families.
noyo

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