Facts about Halloween10 Student: Emilija Dryžaitė

Teacher: Laura PapievienėSubject: English

Kaunas, 2015

Kaunas “Saulės” Gymnasium

Facts about Halloween

Table of contents

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1. Halloween is the second-most commercial American holiday of the year.

$2 billion = 90 million pounds of chocolate

2.The owl was a popular Halloween image

3. The word “witch” comes from the Old English wicce

4.50 % of kids prefer to receive chocolate candy for Halloween

5. The largest pumpkin weighed 380 kilogrammes

6.Scottish girls believed that on Halloween they could see images of their future husband

7. Halloween makes kids act more evil

8.Children are more than twice as likely to be killed in car accident on Halloween than on any other night

9. The Village Halloween parade in New York City is the largest Halloween parade in USA.

10.According to tradition, if a person wears his or her clothes inside out and then walks backwards on Halloween, he or she will see a witch at midnight.

List of references

http://www.businessinsider.com/13-facts-you-never-knew-about-halloween-2013-10

http://facts.randomhistory.com/halloween-facts.html

http://facts.randomhistory.com/halloween-facts.html

Thank you for your attention