____ were people who lived in ancient Britain and Ireland from about 1000 BC and they celebrated a festival called '____'. Samhain was celebrated on 1 November because that was the end of summer and ____ time (which was associated with food and life) and the beginning of winter (which they associated with death). Have you ever wondered why Halloween colours are orange and black? Orange is related to harvests and black is related to ____. Samhain was the time for ____ to return to earth for a day. People lit a big fire, wore special clothes made of animal skin and hoped to be safe from the ghosts and the winter. In early America, the Native Americans and the first Europeans celebrated the end of the harvest, but not Halloween. When many ____ people went to live in America in the 1800s, they brought their Halloween traditions with them and Halloween became popular throughout the country. Many people make pumpkin ____ to decorate their homes at Halloween. They ____ the inside of the pumpkin, cut shapes for the eyes, nose and mouth and place a candle in the empty pumpkin to make a ____ face. This tradition came from the Celts, who ____ faces into vegetables like ____ and potatoes to scare the ghosts and make them go away. Irish people who came to live in the United States found pumpkins much easier to carve, and the tradition became the one we see today. People of all ages ____ on Halloween. In the UK some of the most popular costumes include witches, vampires, ghosts, skeletons, zombies and monsters. We can ____ this tradition back to the Celts, who were afraid of the ghosts that came on Samhain. If they went outside after dark, they ____ their faces with masks. They hoped any ghosts they met would think they were ghosts too and would leave them alone. North Americans wear all kinds of Halloween costumes and not just scary things like witches and ghosts. This is because in the late 19th century, people tried to make Halloween less about ghosts and more about celebrating the season with a ____ for neighbours and family.

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