the secrets of halloween

The secrets of Halloween

By Gwyneth

Halloween first started on an island commonly known as Ireland. Ireland was originally called emerald isle. Thousands of years ago, on emerald isle, the natives believed that every year on the 31^st of October was when the dead came back to earth. They believed this because it was the end of crop season, and the evening before all of the crops died and the frost, ice and snow closed in on the country. To prevent any ghosts or monsters coming and eating them, they invented the jack-o-lantern. The jack-o-lantern was said to keep the ghosts and other “said” to be living but still dead creatures away, and to keep all the family’s safe. The natives did not put then in pumpkins back then, they used hollowed out turnips and the acids inside kept the straw and stuff alight. Only when the Americans came to emerald isle did they show the natives that using a pumpkin for jack-o-lanterns was much easier. To say good bye to the summer season they rejoiced and they went knocking from door to door. Believe it or not, they received bits of different foods and they left random offering just outside the village for the ghosts and other mystical things to eat.