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                    Webquest: Halloween: History and traditions

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This spooky webquest includes activities on popular Halloween traditions, global celebrations and terrifying tales.

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What do you know about Halloween?

Activity 1: Halloween’s history

Visit www.history.com/topics/halloween/history-of-halloween and read the first section entitled Ancient origins of Halloween. Look for the answers to these 13 (unlucky for some) questions. Share your answers with your classmates.

  1. Where is the celebration of Halloween thought to have come from?
  2. The Celts occupied an area of land covering three modern-day countries or regions. What are they?
  3. Why did the Celts celebrate ’Samhain’ on the night of 31 October?
  4. What did the Celts believe the ghosts of the dead would cause damage and trouble to?
  5. To commemorate the event, what did the Druids build?
  6. What costumes did they wear?
  7. What did they re-light to help protect them from the coming winter?
  8. By 43 AD, who had conquered the Celts?
  9. What two other festivals were combined with ’Samhain’?
  10. After many changes due to the spread of Christianity, what new celebration was created in 1000 AD?
  11. What were the similarities between this day and ’Samhain’?
  12. What was another name given to this celebration?
  13. What was the night before called and what did this finally become?

Discussion

  • Are you surprised by the history of Halloween?
  • Do you know any other stories about its origins?
  • Are there any celebrations in your country that have a strange and uncertain history?
  • Do you agree with this type of celebration?
  • Do you believe in ghosts and the supernatural?

Activity 2: Popular Halloween traditions

Jack-o’-lantern

Read the introductory paragraph at www.history.com/topics/jack-olantern-history and describe the jack-o’-lantern tradition to your partner. Then, read the full article entitled The Legend of “Stingy Jack”. Look for the answers to the following questions. Share your answers with your classmates.

  1. The jack-o’-lantern tradition originated from which Irish myth?
  2. What did Jack do with the coin instead? Why?
  3. Under what condition did Jack free the devil?
  4. What trick did Jack play the following year and how did he prevent the devil coming down from the tree?
  5. What happened soon after?
  6. What problem did Jack then face?
  7. What did the Irish call Jack’s ghost?
  8. What did the Irish then begin to make and place in their windows and doorways and why?
  9. What did the vegetable become in America?

Apple-bobbing

Read the first paragraph of this website link about the rules of apple-bobbing: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_bobbing. Answer the following questions and share your answers with a partner.

  1. How do you set up the game?
  2. Why are apples used?
  3. What do players use to catch the apples?
  4. Which part of their body are they prevented from using?

Trick-or-treating

Read the first two paragraphs of this website link about the tradition of ’trick-or-treating’: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trick-or-treating and answer the following questions, sharing your answers with a partner.

  1. What do children ask for when they travel from house to house? 
  2. What do children say when they arrive at a house?
  3. What is usually the ’trick’?
  4. Since when has this tradition been practised in North America?
  5. What do homeowners who wish to participate usually do to their houses?
  6. Since when have people in Britain and Ireland practised the tradition of asking for food at Halloween?
  7. What else have they done since then?
  8. Trick-or-treating has become prevalent in countries outside of America - what do the children ask for in Mexico?

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