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Halloween - Viola Ragonese, Rossella Escobar, Marcos Baldanzi, Giulia Lo Bianco, Jacopo Ori

Halloween derives from "All Allows Day". The origins of that celebration goes back to the ancient Celts. In fact, their druids honored Samhain, the god of the death.

The Celts believed that the dead, led by Samhain, went out of their graves on the night of the 31st October. So the living were afraid of them, and they dressed in scary costumes to frighten the spirits.

After the Roman invasion, Halloween became a harvest festival. The colours of Halloween are in fact orange (that represents the harvest), and black (that represents the death).

"All Allows Day" was first important in Ireland and Scotland, and then it was brought to the USA by the Irish immigrants.

The legend of Jack O'Lantern

A man called Jack, who lived in Ireland and who was known for his drunkenness, one day went to a pub, where he met the Devil.

The Devil wanted his soul, but Jack asked him one more drink without having the money to pay. So the Devil became a coin, Jack trapped him into his pocket, and he let him free on the condition of having one more year of life.

One year later he trapped the Devil again and the Devil had to promise to let him ten more years of life.

When Jack died, he wasn't accepted in Heaven nor in Hell, because the Devil had recognised him.

However, the Devil gave him a piece of a coal that Jack put into a turnip to use it as a lantern.

On Halloween night, in the USA they couldn't celebrate with a turnip, because there were no turnips there. So people started using pumpkins as lanterns; that's why pumpkins are still symbols of this famous celebration.

Fun facts

• Legendary magician Harry Houdini died in Detroit of gangrene and peritonitis resulting from a ruptured appendix on Halloween in 1926.
• Vampires think Halloween is tacky and don't bother going around that night.
• Halloween is second only to Christmas in spending. Consumers will spend over $2.5 Billion during Halloween. That's a whole lot of candy, costumes, decorations and party goods.
• People have believed for centuries that light keeps away ghosts and ghouls. Making a pumpkin lantern with a candle inside may keep you safe from all the spooky spirits flying around on Halloween.

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HALLOWEEN MENU’

Starter:

• sauce of vomit

Avocado, lemon juice, red pepper (sliced), tomato cubes, cheese.

Main courses:

• larvas drowned in slime attached by ants

400 grams spaghetti, four fennels, garlic, oil, salt, pepper, poppy seeds, chive.

• wings of bat and marshy sauce

20 chicken wings, soy sauce, paprika, salt pepper, aromatic herbs, garlic.

For the sauce: fresh cheese, pepper, garlic, asparaguses.

Vegetables:

• ocular bulbs

12 eggs, 12 olives,and red food coloring.

Dessert:

• skewers of snake bowels

Grapes, dates, pineapple.

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How to make your halloween pumpkin:

For creating the best Halloween atmosphere you must show your shiny pumpkin!

Here you’ll learn how to carve the famous “Jack O’Lantern”; it’s not difficult, you need only this things:

• a spoon or an ice-cream scoop;
• a knife with long and sharp blade;
• some newspapers;
• a pumpkin (obviously).

STEP 1:

With your knife, cut away the top of the pumpkin.

The hole must be big enough to crave the inner part by hand, whit the spoon. The cut must be pentagonal or hexagonal (not circular), so it will be easier.

Clean the cap of the pumpkin, so you’ll be able to use it as a blug. Then, with the spoon scrape the inner walls of the pumpkin for cleaning from the filaments.

STEP 2:

Search the better part of the pumpkin for carving the face. Now use carefully the knife for scratching the single parts of the face (if you want, you can sign the face with a pencil before the scratching).

When you have finished to cut, peel back the leavings.

STEP 3:

Check if the bottom is fit to put a candle on it.

Now you’re ready to light you Jack O’Lantern for the Halloween night!

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The colours of halloween

Black, green, orange and red

Four are the colours that on Halloween I wear

Red, orange, greeen and black

These are the colours of the mistery.

Orange is the decourated pumpkin for the party

That menacing  looks out the window.

 Orange is the sweet of the tradition

 I’ll devour it all in one bite.

Green is the bad monsters’ colour

They roam the streets mingling with the alives.

Green is the colour of the soup

That the whitch compouds in the big pot.

Black is the vampire’s mantle

He wraps an himself when he goes out.

Black are the cat, the spider and the crow

That they’re whooping at me with scowl.

Red fire is the small devil

Horns, tail and tuft

I prefer go to bed

To being in his sight!

Red, orange, green and black

These are the colours of the mistery.

Black, green, orange and red

Four are the colours that on Halloween I wear.

Nero, verde, arancione e rosso Black, green, orange and red

Quattro i colori che ad Halloween indosso.

Rosso, arancione, verde e nero 

Questi i colori del mistero.

Arancione è la zucca addobbata a festa 

Che minacciosa guarda dalla finestra.

Arancione è il dolce della tradizione 

Lo divoro tutto in un solo boccone.

Verde è il colore dei mostri cattivi 

Si aggirano per strada mischiandosi ai vivi.

Verde il colore del minestrone 

Che la strega rimescola nel pentolone.

Nero è il mantello del vampiro 

Vi si avvolge tutto quando va in giro.

Neri il gatto, il ragno ed il corvo 

Che mi osservano insieme con sguardo torvo.

Rosso fuoco è il diavoletto 

Corna, coda e ciuffetto 

Preferisco andare a letto 

Che trovarmi al suo cospetto!

Rosso, arancione, verde e nero 

Questi i colori del mistero.

Nero, verde, arancione e rosso 

Quattro i colori che ad Halloween indosso.

Lavoro svolto da: Gaia Simoncini, Ilaria Falaschi, Agnese Menichetti, Eva Orsini, Eleonora Callaioli e Greta Masoni, classe III° BL a.s. 2014/2015.