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of the Dead celebrates dead relatives; anyone who celebrates Day of the Dead sets up a shrine for their dead relative (or relatives) so that their spirit can find it’s way back to their family. Halloween celebrates the end of summer, and we can go trick or treating and get candy. Both holidays celebrate something around the same time of year.Halloween is only one day long, and Day of the Dead is three days long. Halloween starts and ends on October…

the evil spirits. The Celtics believed that the end of the year which is October 31st, the living and dead world would overlap. This resulted in the dead having access to roam earth again. So by people dressing up in costumes they were trying to trick the spirits into believing that they themselves are spirits too. Spirits were also thought to visit their last residence in search of hospitality, so people left food and drinks on their doorsteps as an offering. They would also go guising which…

near doors and people would go trick-or-treating making sure to hit each and every house.Irony several including a skeleton crash test dummy a ninja and of mine. Even in an ice cream cone the year before this Photograph was taken I still manage to go out for the holiday. I had a ton of homework that night Nightwing biology Civics and economics and math 2 my phone that there was enough to keep me busy the entire night. as a result I told my mom and sister to go trick or treating without me.…

Halloween Party Pooper Is Halloween really worth spending hours upon hours getting ready and walking door to door just for candy? Well, by personal experience, going trick or treating is not worth the outcome by any means. -- I was ten minutes away from finishing my mime makeup before heading over to my friend, Emily, to go trick or treating. As I made the triangular shape around my eye with black eye makeup, my hand shook vigorously due to my nerves. I did not know why I was so nervous, but I…

went off to go trick or treating “mom mom mom can we please go to that house?” Sophie asked. It's the scariest house on the block Eli thought. “ Um,” Sophie’s mom replied. “I’ll go,” their dad interrupted.…

were pretty thin. I let Jace struggle because I was curious to which page we would open it to. He finally got the page and it was opened to the first page with the first pictures. Not, the introduction page. From there I started to read ‘Barney’s Trick or Treat!’ The boys listened intently. They started with only observing and taking in the first two pages but when they got comfortable with my talking they decided to chime in. The boys made comments on every page about the pictures. Jace pointed…

It’s that time of year when underaged kids get into costume and travel around the neighborhood ringing doorbells and wanting a lot of treats. When do you think about it, trick or treating is kind of a weird thing. Where did it come from though? I was looking through the web and discovered that the practice began with the Celtic tradition of celebrating the end of the year by dressing up as evil spirits. The Celts believed that, as we moved from one year to the next, the dead and the living would…

A Loss of Candy Last Halloween night, in my neighborhood, I was trick-or-treating. As it was a little after six o'clock, the sun was just setting; it cast a beautiful shade of purple across the sky. All kinds of skeletons, goblins, and other monsters had started to roam about. I had had a specific plan for how I wanted to trick-or-treat. Everything was going smoothly; I was stocking up on candy. I was about to go into the outskirts of my neighborhood and I had almost filled my bag already. That…

involving tricks using a skateboard. Skateboarding became popular in the 1950's throughout California. The idea of skateboarding was born when surfers got creative and wanted to "surf on the streets." Skateboarding is a very popular sport, but it carries many stereotypes and stigmas. Many people believe that the world of skateboarding is full of drugs and vandalism, but it is simply a recreational activity. There are two types of skateboarding, street skating, which involves many tricks with…

candy I managed to keep. Alone in my room, I munched onto the candy and recalled the unexpected events of tonight... Halloween started like every other year. I told my mom I was headed to Jenny’s house for her Halloween party. In reality, I went trick or treating. This year, my best friend, Jenny, and I agreed to dress up as Twix and Kit-Kat bars. The next few weeks were spent planning out every last detail of our Halloween night. The first houses we would go to were in the neighborhood across…