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Halloween

Depending on your family background you may call it Shadowfest, Samhain Festival, Teng Chieh, Los Dias De Los Muertos, All Hallows Eve, Hallowe'en, or Halloween. According to Skal (2002), "all histories of Halloween inevitably wind back
to . . . the death of summer and the beginning of the Celtic new year". Even our religious background has an affect on how or if we celebrate this holiday. I will compare the traditional North American celebration called Halloween to Mexico's Los Dias De Los Muertos, and Ireland's/Celtic's Samhain Festival.
It is believed that the Irish brought Halloween to North America when they fled the Potato Famine of the 1840's. The Irish were not the only ones that contributed to what North America calls Halloween. The English immigrants brought their traditions and merged them with the Irish. The combination of these two cultures is the beginning of what North America calls Halloween (Mackinnon, 2005).
In North America we put lit pumpkins in our......


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