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Halloween Trivia

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Deck Created: October 09, 2009
Last Updated: October 09, 2009  by: Kelly Dave
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Created by: Kelly Dave
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2. What is the significance of Halloween?&nb...
The Celts (Irish) believed that at the end of summer, Samhain, the lord of death becomes powerful and overpowers the sun god. On October 31, Samhain assembles all the evil spirits who had died the previous year and allows them to return home to visit the living. Hence this is celebrated as Halloween
3. Halloween is the original tradition of wh...
Irish Tradition;brought to the US when the Irish came fleeing the potato famine - Great Famine of 1846
8. Children associate Halloween with?
Pranks, costumes and games
10. Why are orange and black the colours of H...
Orange being associated with fall harvest and black symbolizing darkness and death
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Halloween is the original tradition of which community? Irish Tradition;brought to the US when the Irish came fleeing the potato famine - Great Famine of 1846
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