1) Monday, October thirty-first, is Halloween in the United States.

On
that night, many people will dress in clothes to make them look like
frightening ______________________________ ( R E E C T A U R
S ) like monsters or ghosts.
2) Faith Lapidus tells us more. The traditions of Halloween grew out
of Celtic ______________________________ ( I B E L S E F ) in
ancient Britain.
3) The Celts thought ______________________________ ( I R I P S T
S ) of the dead would return to their homes on October thirty-first,
the day of the autumn feast.
4) The Celts built huge ______________________________ ( F I S E
R ) to frighten away evil spirits released with the dead on that night.
5) People from Scotland and Ireland brought these ideas with them
to America. Some people still believed that spirits played
______________________________ ( C R I T K S ) on people on the
last night of October.
6) History ______________________________ ( T X P R E E S ) say
many of the Halloween traditions today developed from those of
ancient times.
7) For example, they say that burning a candle inside a hollow
______________________________ ( K U N I M P P ) recalls the fires
set many years ago in Britain.
8) And they say that wearing a ______________________________
( K M A S ) to hide a persons face is similar to the way ancient
villagers covered their faces to force evil spirits away.
9) On Halloween night, American children dress in special clothing
and go from house to house shouting 'trick or treat!'. If the people
in the houses do not give them a ______________________________
( A Y D N C ), the children might play a trick on them.
10) Americans spend a great deal of money buying Halloween
______________________________ ( S S U O M E T C ) to wear.
They also buy pumpkins and frightening objects to place outside
their homes.

( Adaptation d'un historique trouv sur le Net et traduction libre de cette adaptation.)
( Free translation of lines from an Internet text. )

Halloween is an annual celebration, but just

what is it actually a celebration of? And how
did this peculiar custom originate?

One story says that, on that day, the disembodied

spirits of all those who had died throughout the
preceding year would come back in search of living
bodies to possess for the next year. The Celts
believed all laws of space and time were suspended
during this time, allowing the spirit world to
intermingle with the living.

Halloween est une clbration annuelle,

mais une clbration de quoi au fait? Et
comment cette coutume particulire a-t-elle
commenc la source ?

On raconte que ce jour-l, les esprits

dsincarns des morts de l'anne
prcdente revenaient chercher des corps
vivants pour en prendre possession
pendant l'anne suivante.Les Celtes
croyaient que toutes les lois de l'espace et
du temps taient alors suspendues
permettant au monde des esprits de se
mlanger celui des vivants.

Naturally, the still-living did not want to be

possessed. So on the night of October 31, villagers
would extinguish the fires in their homes, to make
them cold and undesirable.
They would then dress up in all manner of ghoulish
costumes and noisily paraded around the
neighbourhood, being as destructive as possible in
order to frighten away spirits looking for bodies to
possess.
Some accounts tell of how the Celts would burn
someone at the stake that was thought to have
already been possessed, as sort of a lesson to the
spirits.

The Romans adopted the Celtic practices as

their own and in the first century it was
assimilated into celebrations of some of the
other Roman traditions that took place in
October, such as their day to honour Pomona,
the Roman goddess of fruit and trees. The
symbol of Pomona is the apple, which might
explain the origin of our modern tradition of
bobbing for apples on Halloween.

The custom of Halloween was brought to America

in the 1840's by Irish immigrants fleeing their
country's famine.

Naturellement, les vivants ne voulaient

pas tre possds. C'est ainsi que la nuit
du 31 octobre, les villageois teignaient les
lumires de leurs maisons, afin de les
rendre froides et indsirables.
Ils s'habillaient alors avec des costumes
horribles et dfilaient bruyamment dans le
voisinage, devenant ainsi aussi
destructeurs que possible afin d'effrayer les
esprits en qute de corps possder.
Quelques sources racontent la faon dont
les Celtes brlaient des personnes dont ils
pensaient qu'elles taient dj
possdes, en guise d'avertissement aux
esprits

Les Romains adoptrent les pratiques

celtiques comme les leurs et au premier
sicle elles furent assimiles la
clbration d'autres traditions romaines qui
avaient lieu en octobre, telles que leur jour
pour honorer Pomona, la desse romaine
des fruits et des arbres. Le symbole de
Pomona est la pomme, ce qui pourrait
expliquer l'origine de la tradition moderne
qui consistait plonger pour ramasser les
pommes avec les dents lors d'Halloween.

The custom of trick-or-treating is thought to have

originated not with the Irish Celts, but with a ninthcentury European custom called souling. On
November 2, All Souls Day, early Christians would
walk from village to village begging for 'soul cakes,' La coutume de Halloween est arrive en
made out of square pieces of bread with currants.
Amrique en 1840 par les immigrs
irlandais fuyant la famine dans leur pays.

On pense que la coutume du trick-ortreating n'a pas commenc avec les Celtes
irlandais, mais avec une coutume
europenne du neuvime sicle appele le
jour des morts. Le 2 novembre, le jour des
The Jack-o-lantern custom probably comes from
Irish folklore. As the tale is told, a man named Jack, mes, les premiers chrtiens marchaient de
village en village rclamant des gteaux

who was notorious as a drunkard and trickster,

tricked Satan into climbing a tree. Jack then carved
an image of a cross in the tree's trunk, trapping the
devil up the tree. Jack made a deal with the devil
that, if he would never tempt him again, he would
promise to let him down the tree.
According to the folk tale, after Jack died, he was
denied entrance to Heaven because of his evil ways,
but he was also denied access to Hell because he had
tricked the devil. Instead, the devil gave him a single
ember to light his way through the frigid darkness.

The ember was placed inside a hollowed-out turnip

to keep it glowing longer. The Irish used turnips as
their 'Jack's lanterns' originally. But when the
immigrants came to America, they found that
pumpkins were far more plentiful than turnips. So
the Jack-O-Lantern in America was a hollowedout pumpkin, lit with an ember.

Today, even many churches

have Halloweenparties or pumpkin carving
events for the kids.

pour les mes faits de morceaux carrs de

pain avec des groseilles.

La coutume de Jack-o-lanterne vient

probablement du folklore irlandais. Car on
raconte qu'un homme appel Jack, ivrogne
notoire et filou, dupa Satan en grimpant
dans un arbre. Jack aurait alors dcoup
l'image d'une croix dans le tronc de l'arbre,
emprisonnant le diable. Jack fit ensuite un
march avec lui: s'il ne le tentait plus
jamais, il promettait de le librer. Selon la
croyance populaire, sa mort, l'entre au
paradis lui a t refuse en raison de son
comportement, mais l'accs l'enfer
galement parce qu'il avait dup le diable.
En change, le diable lui donna une braise
pour clairer son chemin dans l'obscurit
glaciale.

La braise tait place l'intrieur d'un navet

creus pour qu'elle ne s'teigne pas et
continue rougeoyer plus longtemps. A
l'origine les navets taient utiliss par les
irlandais comme lanternes comme leur
'Jack-lanterns '. Mais quand les immigrs
sont arrivs en Amrique, ils constatrent
que les citrouilles taient plus abondantes
que les navets. Ainsi la Jack-O-Lanterne en
Amrique est devenue une citrouille
creuse dont l'intrieur tait illumin avec
des braises.

Aujourd'hui, mme beaucoup d'glises ont

conserv cette fte pour les enfants.

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