关于万圣节的英语手抄报内容

关于万圣节的英语手抄报内容

万圣节的英文资料

Next to Christmas, Halloween is the most commercialized

celebration in the United States and Canada. This ancient

festival originated far from North America however, and

centuries before the first European set foot on the continent.

The ancient Druids

< br>督伊德教

(

古代高卢人与不列颠人的一种宗

教

)

的教徒

who inhabited what we now call Great Britain placed

great importance on the passing of one season to the next,

holding

(two days on either side of the day itself).

One of these festivals was called Samhain (pronounced

Sha-Von) and it took place on October 31 through to November

1. During this period, it was believed that the boundaries

between our world and the world of the dead were weakened,

allowing spirits of the recently dead to cross over and

possess the living.

In order to make themselves and their homes less inviting

to these wayward spirits, the ancient Celts

（凯尔特人）

would

douse

（插入水中

,

把弄熄

,

弄湿）

all their fires. There was

also a secondary purpose to this, after extinguishing all

their fires, they would re-light them from a common source,

the Druidic fire that was kept burning at Usinach, in the

Middle of Ireland.

Samhain was considered to be a gateway not only from the

land of the dead to the land of the living, but also between

Summer and Fall/Winter. For the Druids, this was the last