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Informative Essay About Halloween

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Even though , we might know halloween as a the night were you get to dress up and go trick or treating; there is a bigger deal behind it.

A good start is the history of halloween. Back in the old days, halloween was called “All Hallows Eve”. This holiday was a Catholic holiday. They believed in a festival called samhain. This is a term for “summer's end”. People also believed that if they wore costumes, the evil spirits wouldn’t recognize them. Since it was a Catholic holiday, people made Jack O Lanterns to represent souls in the purgatory. Trick or Treating was starting to get popular in 1934.

Second, let's talk about different places around the world that celebrate Halloween. Mexico’s halloween is called, Dia De Los Muertos. This day
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