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1 - surprisingly

2 - singer

3 - popularity

4 - famous

5- regularly

6 - impressive

7 - deepest

8 - was discovered

9 - became

10 - this ( не точно)

11 - first

12 - will not forget

Halloween is a holiday of vampires, witches, ghosts and other evil spirits. Because of this, children wear costumes and masks with their images. Until recently, this holiday was wildly celebrated only in the United States and now it is becoming more and more popular in Europe and gradually in the USSR. What do we know about this holiday, where it originates? For thousands of years, different people have celebrated different holidays and festivals in October. Halloween is one of the oldest holidays in the world. This history dates back thousands of years, starting with the Celtic festival of Samhejn, the Roman day of Pomona (the goddess of plants) and the Christian "all Saints 'Day". This holiday strangely combines the Celtic tradition of celebrating the evil spirit and the Christian-the worship of everything sacred.

Across Europe, this night marked the transition to winter. They believe that at this time the souls of the dead visit former homes to warm themselves by the fire. They wander around collecting donations of food and drink from other family members. The souls of the dead could take on different forms-the evil ones took over the animals. Along with them, there are other forces of darkness: demons, brownies, witches. All evil Spirits descend to the earth. Because of fear, people extinguished the fires in their homes and dressed up as scary as possible-in animal skins and heads, hoping to scare away evil spirits.

At the end of the XIX century, Halloween was tried to turn into a public holiday, and many superstitious features of Halloween disappeared into history.

Now Halloween is a festival that takes place on October 31. In the United States, children wear costumes and masks and go for candy or treats. Many of them carve Jack-a-lanterns out of plump species. Divination and telling stories about ghosts and witches are popular activities.

People once believed that there were many ghosts and witches on Earth, and that they met on October 31 to worship the devil. Today, people don't believe in ghosts and witches, but they love to tell stories about them on Halloween.

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