Halloween

Halloween is a party that comes from the Celts called Samhain. It is celebrated on October 31 and is also known as the night of witches or night of the deceased.

The day is often associated with the colors orange, black and purple and is strongly linked to symbols like the jack-o'-lantern.

People dress up as witches, ghosts ... They also decorate houses with scary things, like spiders, bats and terrifying things.

Children go from house to house asking for sweets With the famous phrase of trick or treat. A typical element of Halloween are the famous pumpkins. There are people who empty them and use them to put the sweets, others make them eyes and mouth and put candles inside.

The typical Halloween food is caramel apples. It was a very common custom to play the bell during that night until dawn and many times they are dressed in black.

St. Patrick´s Day by Xabier Andrés

 
  What is St. Patrick?

The St. Patrick's Day is celebrated annually on March 17 to commemorate the death of Saint Patrick, It´s a national fest in Ireland where everything is green and Irish; Christians and no Christians celebrate the feast, regularly dressing of green, and they enjoy Irish cuisine which includes alcohol and Irish drinks, and attending parades. Some markets selling beer dyed green for the feast.

Why St. Patrick is celebrated ?

Irish pirates took prisoner the young Patrick 16 and sold him as a slave. He stayed there six years in Ireland, where he learned to speak the Celtic language. He managed to escape and went to France to prepare for the monastic life, and became a priest.

A Christian tradition says Patrick explained the mystery of the Holy Trinity using a three leaf clover. since that day as usual have to wear a clover on his feast and  dress in green and even dyed with this color beer in honor of Ireland, also nicknamed the "Emerald Island."

Opinion

In my opinion this celebrate it´s very curious because I never heard that the people dressed up of green even I felt curiosity for the green beer, finally I think that is a amazing celebration

     

St. Patrick´s Day by Diego Cameirao

Saint Patrick´s day is celebrated in Ireland and it is on 17th of March. It symbolizeS Saint Patrick´s death.
In this festival all the people are dress with green clothes, because the green colour is a lucky thing.
Another lucky things are the Spring, shamrocks and Chicago river, because all this things are green.
If you aren´t dress of green in that day, the people can pinch you. It is a american tradition. They think that the green colour could make you invisible to avoid pinches. In the beginning of the St Patrick´s day, the people dressed of blue.

There are a lot of traditions in St Patrick´s day. For example the Irish people eat meat with sprouts.
Also, if you see a Leprechaun you should have catch him because it has a pot full of money and gold.
Another Irish food are potatoes, fish, broccoli and carrots.
Saint Patrick´s legend tells that he throw out a lot of snakes of there. And the people make some jokes related with this success.
One traditional drink are the beer. Without drinking Black Irish beer the celebration isn´t the same.

In Spain, Saint Patrick´s day is celebrated too. It is join in Galicia, in a village of Pontevedra. This party is join there because this city has association with the Irish tradition. And more or less 4.000 people join it.