Origins of Halloween
The tradition originated with this ancient Celtic festival, when people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off ghosts.
CLUES
1-The name of this festival contains 6 letters
2-The first 3 letters could be associated with the USA
3-The last 3 letters could be associated with a Scottish word meaning "to save, to leave off"
The ancient Celtic festival of Samhain
During some Celtic celebrations of Samhain, villagers disguised themselves in costumes to drive away phantom visitors; banquet tables were prepared and food was left out to placate unwelcome spirits. What were their costumes made of?
OPTIONS
1-Tree leaves
2-Animal skins
2-Wool
Animal skins
The celebration of Halloween was extremely limited in colonial New England but much more common in Maryland and the southern colonies. Why?
Because of the rigid Protestant belief systems there.
Place in America in which a series of investigations and persecutions caused 19 convicted “witches” to be hanged and many other suspects to be imprisoned.(June 1692–May 1693)
Salem Village in the Massachusetts Bay Colony (now Danvers, Massachusetts).
Director: Wes Craven
Plot: A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a new killer, who targets the girl and her friends by using horror films as part of a deadly game.
Scream
Season during which the Celts felt especially close to deceased relatives and friends.
OPTIONS
A-The end of the winter
B-The end of the autumn
C-The end of the summer
The end of the summer
Poor people would visit the houses of wealthier families and receive pastries called soul cakes in exchange for a promise to pray for the souls of the homeowners’ dead relatives. What is this practice known as?
CLUE
OUI (The consonants are missing)
"Souling"
This practice was later taken up by children, who would go from door to door asking for gifts such as food, money and ale.
A distinctly American version of Halloween emerged because of this.
Because the beliefs and customs of different European ethnic groups and the American Indians meshed.
We avoid crossing paths with black cats, afraid that they might bring us bad luck. This idea has its roots in the Roman Empire, when many people believed that witches avoided detection by turning themselves into black cats. True or False?
False
This idea has its roots in the Middle Ages
This film may have been panned (criticised) by critics when first released but since then it is one of the most famous and influential horror films, the franchise containing one of horror's most iconic villains. The film is popular enough to become a franchise and spawn several sequels of varying quality and generally inferior to the one that started it all off.
Friday the 13th
This day marked the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of the dark, cold winter, a time of year that was often associated with human death.
OPTIONS
A-October 31st
B-November 1st
C-November 2nd
November 1st
In these two countries, young people took part in a tradition called guising, dressing up in costume and accepting offerings from various households. Rather than pledging to pray for the dead, they would sing a song, recite a poem, tell a joke or perform another sort of “trick” before collecting their treat, which typically consisted of fruit, nuts or coins.
A-SCOTLAND AND ENGLAND
B-IRLAND AND WALES
B-SCOTLAND AND IRELAND
Scotland and Ireland
In the second half of the 19th century, America was flooded with new immigrants. But the ones from this country helped to popularize the celebration of Halloween nationally.
OPTIONS
A-Spain
B-Germany
C-Ireland
Ireland. Millions of Irish fleeing the Irish Potato Famine helped to popularize the celebration of Halloween nationally.
Try not to walk under ladders. This superstition may have come from the ancient Egyptians, who believed that triangles were sacred. True or False?
True
This film is a 1988 fantasy that is darker than you may remember. There are some serious themes in this outrageous film: a young married couple comes to grips with the fact that they're dead, and a teenager contemplates suicide. Some of the imagery is pretty creepy, and there's some strong language (both "s--t" and "f--k" are used). There's smoking, drinking, and a reference to Valium. An afterlife waiting room abounds with people in various states of deadness, including some gory-looking ones that imply very violent deaths. Main characters are chased by giant striped worms in a desert. A character shrivels up like a mummy in a matter of seconds.
Beetlejuice
By 43 A.D., an empire had conquered the majority of Celtic territory. In the course of the 400 years that they ruled the Celtic lands, two of their festivals were combined with the traditional Celtic celebration of Samhain. What empire was it?
CLUE
TH RMN MPR (The vowels are missing)
The Roman Empire
Modern-day trick-or-treating also has elements akin to annual celebrations of Guy Fawkes Night (also known as Bonfire Night). On this night, which commemorates the foiling of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605, British children wore masks and carry effigies while begging for pennies. This day in November, 1606, Fawkes was executed for his role in the Catholic-led conspiracy to blow up England’s parliament building and remove King James I, a Protestant, from power.
CLUE
1-Fifty-four days and twenty-four hours before Christmas.
5
November 5th
Young women believed that on Halloween they could guess this by doing tricks with yarn, apple parings or mirrors.
The name or appearance of their future husband.
Pumpkins with ghoulish faces and illuminated by candles are a sure sign of the Halloween season. The practice of decorating jack-o'-lanterns originated in Wales, where large turnips and potatoes served as early canvasses. In fact, the name, jack-o'-lantern, comes from a Welsh folktale about a man named Stingy Jack. Welsh immigrants brought the tradition to America, home of the pumpkin, and it became an integral part of Halloween festivities.
False
... The practice of decorating jack-o'-lanterns originated in Ireland, where large turnips and potatoes served as early canvasses. In fact, the name, jack-o'-lantern, comes from an Irish folktale about a man named Stingy Jack. Irish immigrants brought the tradition to America, home of the pumpkin, and it became an integral part of Halloween festivities.
This is truly a horror classic. Specifically, it's more creative than most of them, due to the fact that Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) has to go inside peoples' dreams to kill them. His blade-fingers are like a character in and of themselves. This is one movie that no horror-fetishist can afford to miss.
A Nightmare on Elm Street
In this century, Pope Gregory III designated November 1 as a time to honor all saints.
OPTIONS
A- In the sixth century
B-In the seventh century
C-In the eighth century
In the eighth century
Century in which, Irish and Scottish communities revived the Old World traditions of souling and guising in the United States. By the 1920s, however, pranks had become the Halloween activity of choice for rowdy young people.
CLUE
READ THE TEXT CAREFULLY.
The early 20th century
Parents were encouraged by newspapers and community leaders to take anything “frightening” or “grotesque” out of Halloween celebrations. Because of these efforts, Halloween lost most of its superstitious and religious overtones by the beginning of this century.
OPTIONS
A-By the beginning of the twentieth century
B-By the middle of the twentieth century
C-By the end of the twentieth century
By the beginning of the twentieth century.
n the ancient mythologies of the Welsh and Irish Celts, these played an important role in some of their most enduring stories and myths. In these, they were often attributed with magical properties but in the everyday life of the Celts, they were also very useful and versatile utensils.
Cauldrons
A sub-genre of horror film typically involving a psychopathic killer (sometimes wearing a mask) who stalks and graphically murders a series of adolescent victims in a typically random, unprovoked fashion, killing many within a single day.
A slasher film