Thursday, October 30, 2008

Week 6 : Task 3 : Halloween history

Halloween which is a patchwork, stick together with cultural, religious and decode tradition. More than 2000 years ago, in Europe, Oct 31st was the day that people celebrated the end of the harvest season and there was also the magical day that ghosts from the death came back to life. According to the video, Halloween was called that Hallowmas (Hallow meaned: Holy) . On 1840, Halloween was brought into America. Children've wore masks so they won't be recognized to play a game called Trick or treat. However, back to the 1930s, the tradition has become too dangerous and rude such a vandalism like give candy or your house will be trashed...

New words:

  1. patchwork (n): connect something together
  2. vandalism (n) : a destruction of public or private property.
  3. trash (v) : destroy (property)
  4. gaze (n) (v) : Stare at somebody

1 comment:

Evan Zhang said...

I like it. It is interesting, in addition, it's useful. It is interesting that ghost can back to live.