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Samhain
Guy Fawkes Day
El Dia De Los Muertos
Modern Traditions
Superstitions
100
A people who lived 2,000 year ago in what is now Ireland, the United Kingdom and northern France.
Who are the Celts?
100
The country that Guy Fawkes Day is celebrated in.
What is England?
100
El Dia De Los Muertos in English.
What is the Day of the Dead?
100
This tradition probably dates back to the early All Souls' Day parades in England when poor citizens would beg for food called soul cakes.
What is trick or treating?
100
People thought that this was how a witch would hide.
What is a black cat?
200
The Celts often wore these during the event of Samhain.
What are costumes made of animal heads and skins?
200
Guy Fawkes has little to do with Samhain. It commemorates.....
The execution of an English Traitor.
200
The reason this holiday is celebrated.
To honor the dead who (it is believed) return to their earthly homes on Halloween.
200
This tradition has roots European and Celtic roots. People would wear masks to avoid being recognized by ghosts.
What is dressing up in costume?
200
Women would throw these into the fireplace in hopes of finding out who their future husband might be.
What are hazlenuts?
300
The Celts believed this became blurred on the night of October 31st.
What is the boundary between the worlds of the living and dead?
300
The first bonfires, set up to burn symbolic bones.
What are bone-fires?
300
These help the dead find their way home on this holiday.
What are candles and incense?
300
Bobbing for apples may have come from this tradition.
What is snap-apple?
300
Young women would toss these over their shoulders to find out the initials of their future husband.
What are apple peels?
400
The Celts celebrated Samhain because they though with ghosts present they could make predictions about the future AND _____________
So the ghosts wouldn't cause trouble for the living.
400
An effigy carried by children during this holiday.
What is a "guy."
400
Many families construct this to honor deceased relatives and decorate it with _________, ___________, _________, and food/drinks.
What is an altar and it is decorated with candy, flowers, photographs.
400
Ding dong ditch may have come from this Irish tradition.
What is "knock a dolly"?
400
Egyptians believed that these are sacred.
What are triangles?
500
A kind of fruitcake.
What is barnbrack?
500
The activity that English Children do that most closely resembles trick or treating.
What is "a penny for the guy"?
500
Before having a big feast at relatives gravesites family members will _____________ and _____________ it.
What are repair and decorate?
500
What is how much people in the United States spend annually on Halloween.
What is $6.9 billion?
500
BONUS!
Everyone gets the points :)