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More and more people are celebrating the day by wearing costumes, sharing the evening with friends and seeing how dark and orange some store windows are. What didn't catch him was going from house to house looking for candy.
No matter how hard Hollywood tries, the tradition of decorating houses with cobwebs or visiting different houses to ask for candy has not been fully implemented in Spain.
But psychologist Silvia Olmedo is sure that it won't be long before we see this personal practice become a habit, because "in a few years it will be a normal thing to wear scary costumes and go to the altar to relive memories and memories of these". loved ones [...] It sounds strange, so tell me, at Christmas, are you Santa or Hacia King Magi, the nativity scene or the Christmas tree? What you experienced in your childhood becomes your tradition, and the strange foreign customs we resist today will captivate our grandchildren. "
However, although many people think of Halloween as a holiday born in the United States, it is not, and was embraced by Irish immigrants to the United States. They were initially hesitant about this celebration, as "it is believed that on the night of October 31, the souls of the dead return to the world of the living" and the Irish "underpants" scare them in their frightening phenomena. Olmedo said. The custom was not popular among Americans at first, but over the generations, Halloween has become one of the most famous and popular international holidays in the United States.
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USA
Halloween is celebrated differently depending on age. Children in the house together with his mother try on different outfits, maybe even the last, which she sewed herself. At school, she used to cut pumpkin and cook someone at home to collect candy from neighbors, asking the typical question: treat or trick? (Trick or treat in Spanish). But if you're a teenager, things change, you're not so interested in going door to door ringing doorbells to get candy. Now it's important for you to be able to spend the evening with friends in costume, chatting and watching horror movies, so that in one scare you can hug for the first time or even, straight out of stress, the first kiss. Unlike adults, they organize big parties at home, wear fancy costumes and eat different foods on this horrible night. 10 songs for a scary musical Halloween.
France
Halloween is one of the most popular international holidays. So much so that houses are decorated like in the United States, stores decorate their windows early in the morning with cobwebs, pumpkins and skulls. French children also use the same ritual when they walk around the house asking for candy in response to questions as Americans do.