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Halloween
The Celtic people of Ireland celebrated a festival called Samhain,
which means the end of summer. During this time crops were harvested and
animals were slaughtered to prepare for the long, cold winter. The Celtics
belived that the worlds between the dead and the living could communicate
because the air was the thinnest during this time. So October 31 was known
as The eve of all Hallows, Hallows even, and eventually Hallo ....
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.... came to America.
The immigrants brought their own customs as well as making new customs in
America. In Ireland people lit candles and placed them in turnips as jack-
o-lanterns, but when coming to the new world they found that carving
pumpkins and putting candles in them was a much better way to make a jack-
o-lantern. The original jack-o-lantern came to be when a man named Jack
made a deal with the devil to treat him kindly throughout the year. Well
Jack died and was turned aw ....
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