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Mejor respuesta: Halloween, or Halloween, is a holiday celebrated on the night of

October 31. Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, ghost tours, bonfires, costume
parties, visiting "haunted houses", carving Jack-o'-lanterns, reading scary stories and
watching horror movies. Irish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North
America in the nineteenth century. Other western countries embraced the holiday in the
late twentieth century. Halloween is celebrated in several countries of the Western
world, most commonly in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Ireland,
Puerto Rico, Japan, New Zealand, and occasionally in parts of Australia. In Sweden
the All Saints' official holiday takes place on the first Saturday of November
History of name
The term Halloween is shortened from All Hallows' Even (both "even" and "eve" are
abbreviations of "evening", but "Halloween" gets its "n" from "even") as it is the eve of
"All Hallows' Day", which is now also known as All Saints' Day. It was a day of religious
festivities in various northern European Pagan traditions,until Popes Gregory III and
Gregory IV moved the old Christian feast of All Saints' Day from May 13 (which had
itself been the date of a pagan holiday, the Feast of the Lemures) to November 1. In the
ninth century, the Church measured the day as starting at sunset, in accordance with
the Florentine calendar. Although All Saints' Day is now considered to occur one day
after Halloween, the two holidays were, at that time, celebrated on the same day.
Liturgically, the Church traditionally celebrated that day as the Vigil of All Saints, and,
until 1970, a day of fasting as well. Like other vigils, it was celebrated on the previous
day if it fell on a Sunday, although secular celebrations of the holiday remained on the
31st. The Vigil was suppressed in 1955, but was later restored in the post-Vatican II
calendar.

Todos santos en ingles

As well as celebrating their birthday, many Spaniards and Latin Americans celebrate
their santo or onomstica. This is the day when the saint whose name they have is
honoured in the Christian calendar. It used to be relatively common for newborn babies
to be named after the saint on whose day they were born. So a boy born on 25 July
(Saint James's day) stood a good chance of being christened "Santiago". The tradition
may be dying out now that parents are no longer restricted to names from the Christian
calendar. In Spain, as with birthdays, the person whosesanto it is normally buys the
drinks if they go out with friends.

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