Happy Halloween, everyone!!

[Jessica]

el día de los muertos
Day of the Dead (for Mexico)
I am going trick or treating this year! ^^
I won't be here around 6 because I will be getting candy!! ^^
have a happy Halloween everyone!! :) :)
No school on Monday and Tuesday of next week, so it's a four day weekend!! :D

[Planet hopper]

Will you burn fake money at your home's door?
That is so cool.
But Chinese do that some days before halloween, don't they?

[Elaina]

el día de los muertos
Day of the Dead (for Mexico)
I am going trick or treating this year! ^^
I won't be here around 6 because I will be getting candy!! ^^
have a happy Halloween everyone!! :) :)
No school on Monday and Tuesday of next week, so it's a four day weekend!! :D

El Dia de los Muertos se celebra el 1ero de Noviembre.......coincide con All Souls Day.

Este día es el Dia de las Brujas. (For lack of a better term)

[Jessica]

Will you burn fake money at your home's door?
That is so cool.
But Chinese do that some days before halloween, don't they?

No we won't. We will just give away candy ^^
I'm not sure of Chinese do that, I'll have to ask....

[Planet hopper]

Right, here you go, details:

1.- In Spain it's called '(El dia de) todos los santos'. Here, the word muertos sounds heavy, and dia sounds like a festival, so it doesn't match. Todos los santos is a day, and halloween is an evening. Maybe el dia de las brujas, but it is also the day of the werewolves, and so on. Here, in Spanish we just say Halloween (The holy evening)

2.-All saints (souls) was created by the catholic church as a reaction against halloween, which is regarded as a pagan festival, originally from Scotland, much much older and extremely popular in Ireland where the british landlords would give away food and gifts on that day. To the Scottish tradition, Halloween is new year for the witches and you protect your home from spectres with a Jack-o-lantern. You should feel happy because if you are sad, a ghost will take your soul.

3.-We are assimilating halloween, though many many people are against celebrating it. Today the Spanish TV launched the idea that teenagers (and younger) in Spain are the halloween generation. One thing we attach to Halloween is the broadcast, 70 years ago, of the War of the worlds on the radio, read by Orson Wells. I just heard a version on Spanish radio, it was interesting.
Happy Halloween again :) :) :)

[CrOtALiTo]

In Mexico is The day of the dead, and I don't celebrate it, good anyway Jessica, I hope you get funny today.

[Planet hopper]

The point is, the day of the dead, or all souls / saints, is Nov 1st, and Halloween is 31st Oct. They are different festivals, all saints being closer to what the chinese call tomb-sweeping day. In Europe they are also felt as opposite, if you are a religious person you wouldn't celebrate Halloween, and if you are not, you would enjoy halloween more.

[CrOtALiTo]

Look, in my country this celebrations named Halloween is very a few sounded, normally in my country we celebrate the day of the dead, it's the 1st November and 2st November, bony until tomorrow.

[Jessica]

oh now I understand ^^ thanks everyone!