WEBQUEST, HALLOWEEN

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• Halloween has its origins in a Celtic festival
  known as Samhain, which derives from Old Irish
  and means the end of the Ancient Britons had a
  holiday known as Calan Gaeaf similar. In the
  Samhain was celebrated the end of the harvest
  season in the culture Celt and was regarded as
  the "Celtic New Year," which began with the dark
  season.The ancient Celts believed that the line
  connecting this world with the Other world
  narrowed with the advent of Samhain, allowing
  spirits (both benevolent and malevolent) pass
  through. Family ancestors were honored guests
  while they were away harmful spirits. It is
  believed that the use of costumes and masks
  because of the need to scare away evil spirits.
  Its purpose was to adopt the appearance of an
  evil spirit to avoid being damaged. In Scotland
  the spirits were replaced by young men dressed in
  white with face masks or painted black.Samhain
  was also a time to take stock of food supplies
  and livestock to prepare for winter. The fires
  also played an important role in the festivities.
  All other fires were extinguished and in every
  home is lit a fire in the fireplace. The bones of
  slaughtered animals were thrown into the
  fire.Another common practice was divination,
  which often involved the consumption of foods and
  beverages.

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• The evening October 31, Halloween comes into full
  swing. One of the most ingrained habits Halloween
  night for children and not so young is disguise,
  the more terrifying and grotesque the better, and
  walk the streets to assault the houses in the
  neighborhood. Gangs of kids go down the street
  with their pumpkins, knocking on doors and when
  the innocent visit opens the door, throw the
  rallying cry "Trick or Treating (! Trick or
  treat). Tradition requires that the tenant of the
  house succumb to this terrible blackmail, giving
  children all kinds of sweets and treats of
  Halloween, making thus treatment (treat) them.
  Failure to act in this manner, the delinquent
  neighbor is exposed to the fearful pranks
  (tricks) of the children dressed as skeletons,
  zombies, vampires, mummies and witches.
•  This custom, trick or treat, owes its origin to
  the persecution of Protestants against Catholics
  in England in the sixteenth and seventeenth
  centuries.As a result of these persecutions, the
  Protestant King James I and his Parliament were
  victims of an attempted bombing but the plan was
  cut short when Guy Fawkes one of the
  conspirators, later executed, spoke under the
  pressure of the executioners and betrayed his
  comrades.The fact led to a burlesque party, that
  gang of Lutherans who protected his identity
  under masks grim, celebrating the date of
  discovery of the treason visiting Catholic homes
  and requiring its residents cowed beer and cakes.
  The threat, quickly became popular "Trick or
  Treat". Thus the "Guy Fawkes Day" came to America
  with the first settlers moved to October 31 and
  joined the Halloween party.

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When the Celts became Christians, they,
and other Christian groups, appropriated the
holiday as a festive prelude to the day on which
to remember those Christians who have left this
world and live with Jesus. According to the New
Testament these people are referred to as saints.
All Saints Day was known then as All Hallows Day
(All Holy Day), so inevitably the evening before
was called All Hallows Een, or All Holy Evening.
Eventually the term was shortened to Halloween.
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• A habit of hollowing out and carving a pumpkin to
  make it a bluff called Jack-o-lantern comes from
  Irish folklore eighteenth century. The story goes
  that Jack was a notorious drinker, gambler and
  loafer who spent his days lying under an oak.
  Legend has it that n one occasion, Satan appeared
  to him with intent to take him to hell. Jack
  challenged him to climb the oak, and when the
  devil was in the tree, carved a cross into the
  trunk to prevent decline. Then Jack made ??a deal
  with the devil he would never back down if to
  tempt him with the game or drink.The story goes
  that when Jack died he was not allowed entrance
  into heaven for their sins in life, but could not
  enter hell because he had tricked the devil. To
  compensate, the devil gave him an ember to light
  his way into the freezing darkness why you should
  wander until Judgment Day. The ember was placed
  inside a hollowed bowl "called turnip" to burn
  like a lantern for a long time.The Irish used
  turnips to use to make their "Jack's lanterns",
  but when immigrants came to the United States
  warned that pumpkins were more plentiful than
  turnips. For this reason, there was the custom of
  carving pumpkins for Halloween and turn them into
  entering a coal lantern or a candle inside. The
  lamp was not designed to summon evil spirits but
  keep them away from people and their homes.

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What is an urban legend?

• An urban legend is usually a good, captivating,
  amazing, exciting, frightening story that flows
  spontaneously from a large audience, which is
  narrated in different ways and tends to be
  regarded as true despite the evidence against it
  is based. It can be based or have their origin in
  an incident that really never happened.

usually in a specific place, tend to be about the
supernatural, apparitions, strange deaths, etc ...
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• The girl in the curve
• They say that this was a night of
  thick fog, in the curves of Garraf, a succession
  of sharp curves and dangerous, many years ago,
  long before the highway was built which now
  crosses the bowels of the mountains of
  Garraf.It was dark, light rain was falling but
  continuous and fog covered the night with his
  white mantle, impossible to see beyond 15
  meters.A man was driving his car through the
  curves, eager to get home and reunite with his
  wife and two daughters after a long weekend of
  work.At a bend in the road, he saw a
  hitchhiker, a young blonde woman, gaunt and pale,
  soaked by rain, with a long white dress torn and
  muddy. This man took pity on the young and,
  stepping on the brakes, he decided to take it and
  bring it to the nearest town.For much of the
  journey, and the young man was talking about
  trivial things, when, in a moment, before
  reaching one of the most closed and dangerous
  curves of the hills, she warns you to slow down
  almost to a stop and go very slowly.The man
  does, and see, scared, that had not been warned
  of the danger she probably would have been
  slammed against the car ravine. Thanks you,
  thanks for saving his life, what the girl
  says,- Do not thank me, it's my mission in that
  corner I killed him over 25 years ago on a night
  like this ...And after uttering these words, he
  disappeared, leaving only evidence of their
  spectral appearance, the passenger seat for wet
  clothes ...

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foods

• Because the holiday comes in the wake of the
  annual apple harvest, candy apples (known as
  toffee apples outside North America), caramel or
  taffy apples are common Halloween treats made by
  rolling whole apples in a sticky sugar syrup,
  sometimes followed by rolling them in nuts.
• List of foods associated with the holiday
• Barmbrack (Ireland)
• Bonfire toffee (Great Britain)
• Candy apples/toffee apples (Great Britain
  Ireland)
• Candy corn, candy pumpkins (North America)
• Caramel apples
• Caramel corn
• Colcannon (Ireland)
• Novelty candy shaped like skulls, pumpkins, bats,
  worms, etc.
• Pumpkin, pumpkin pie, pumpkin bread
• Roasted pumpkin seeds
• Roasted sweet corn
• Soul cakes

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• Zoilo Jiménez
• Cristina Molina
• Cristina Guillén
• Mirella Sánchez
• Tania López

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