Dear Neighbor
occasion of Halloween, we invite all to participate with their children this day Friday 31 at 20 hrs. in the square opposite the guard house, then go house to house trick.
The requirement to participate is to bring something to give kids (Cakes, kuchenes, cookies, drinks, coffee, etc.. And something for the dads), the idea is to have fun and entertain.
Organizing Committee
HISTORY OF HALLOWEEN
V century BC In the Ireland of the Celts, on October 31 in the evening was a feast marking the end of summer and the beginning of a new year. It was said that during that night and magic spells were stronger than any other day.
In 46 BC C. with the Roman conquest of the Celts, part of this festival and its customs went to Christian Rome. In the fourth century AD in Rome, the Celts could not leave at all its customs, and that Christianity changed the name of Festival of Samhain to All Hallows Eve and the reason for this celebration became the Christian worship of martyrs religiosos.Las Christian communities in the ninth and tenth centuries began asking for cakes and sweets in exchange for praying for the souls and later changed their clothes and costumes.
Irish Americans imposed the myth of the pumpkin, which continues to this day. Halloween was first celebrated mass in 1921. That year was the first Halloween parade in the state of Minnesota and then was followed by other states. Halloween is a very important date in several countries.
- Customs of Halloween:
1. Trick: In the ninth century, Europe went from village to village begging for cakes and sweets. Today, in some countries, children dress up as ghosts to visit neighbors, to be paid by those with the gift of sweets.
2. Use of disguises: The Night of the Witches, is customary for people to dress up, taking the practice, its origins in medieval Europe. People wore masks when droughts or other disasters, the overwhelmed, so driven away the spirits and witches.
3. Pumpkins with lights: On October 31 the Celts left a candle burning in their driveways but the wind did not go out, protected them with a hollow pumpkin.
Dress up and enjoy!
