Webquest: Halloween

Activity 1

1. Halloween’s origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain

2. Ireland, the United Kingdom and northern France

3. It was believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth.

4. Crops

5. Druids built huge sacred bonfires, where the people gathered to burn crops and animals as sacrifices to the Celtic deities.

6. During the celebration, the Celts wore costumes, typically consisting of animal heads and skins, and attempted to tell each other's fortunes.

7. They re-lit their hearth fires to help protect them during the coming winter

8. The Roman Empire

9. Feralia and a day to honour Pomona

10. All Souls' Day, a day to honour the dead

11. Big bonfires, parades, and dressing up in costumes as saints, angels and devils

12.  All-hallows or All-hallowmas

13. All-hallows Eve, Halloween.

Activity 2

1.       A man nicknamed "Stingy Jack."

2.       He keeps the money and put it into his pocket next to a silver cross, because the cross prevented the Devil from changing back into his original form.

3.       He would not bother Jack for one year and that, should Jack die, he would not claim his soul.

4.       Jack tricked the Devil into climbing into a tree to pick a piece of fruit. Jack carved a sign of the cross into the tree's bark to prevent the devil coming down from the tree.

5.       Jack died

6.       His soul wasn’t accepted by both heaven and hell.

7.       Jack of the Lantern, simply "Jack O'Lantern."

8.       They began to make their own versions of Jack's lanterns by carving scary faces into turnips or potatoes and placed them in their windows and doorways to frighten away Stingy Jack and other wandering evil spirits.

9.       Pumpkins

Apple- bobbing

1.       Fill a tub or a large basin with water and put apples in the water. Then players try to catch one with their teeth.

2.       Because apples are less dense than water, they will float at the surface.

3.       Teeth

4.       Hands

Trick-or-treating

1.       Candy, sweets

2.       Trick or treat

3.       The trick is a treat to perform mischief on he homeowners or their property if no treat is given.

4.       Early 1950s

5.       They decorate their entrances. Some just leave the candy in bowls on the porch. Others might even ask an effort from the children in order to provide them with candy.

6.       Great Britain and Ireland

7.       Souling and Guising

8.       Children and poor people would sing and say prayers for the dead in return for cake in terms of Souling. For Guising, children ask for food and coins. For trick or treat, children just ask for candies.

9.        Skull