Hallowe'en is a holiday celebrated on the night of October 31. The term Halloween is shortened from All-hallow-even and also which is now known as All Saints' Day. Traditional activities include trick-or-treating, Halloween festivals, bonfires, costume parties, visiting "haunted houses" and viewing horror films. It originated from the Pagan festival Samhain, celebrated among the Celts of Ireland and Great Britain. Irish and Scottish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century. And now it is celebrated in several parts of the western world, most commonly in Ireland, the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, and the United Kingdom. Hallowen is very famous in western world but not knowing in arabic world.
Guy Fawkes night or Bonfire Night,is an annual celebration but not a public holiday on the evening of the 5th of November primarily in the United Kingdom but also in former British colonies New Zealand. The celebrations, which in the United Kingdom take place in towns and villages across the country, involve fireworks displays and the building of bonfires, on which "guys", or dummies, representing Guy Fawkes, the most infamous of the conspirators, are traditionally burnt. The Sussex Bonfire Societies are responsible for the series of bonfire festivals around Eastern Sussex and Western Kent during October and November.
The origin of these societies is in the town of Lewes. Lewes has seven separate societies and on the 5 November the town is host to six separate bonfires.
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Hi Falah
You have found a lot of interesting information! However, you have taken this from the internet - I wanted you to summarise the information in YOUR OWN words!! Maybe you can add another post to give your opinion on these festivals?
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