TWINAGERS NEWS 
                                                                                                                                                                          02/11/07
                                                      Halloween and All Saints' Day in Poland
                                                                                                      Short notes on these celebrations 

        "Halloween is not very popular in Poland. In this day children mostly in North America and in some other countries, dress funny or spooky costumes and knock on neighborhood doors saying "Trick or Treat". Poland, being a predominantly Roman Catholic country, almost doesn't celebrate Halloween. In 31'st October polish people prepare to the All Saints' Day, they buy flowers, ever-burning fires and clean graves of them close relatives. Halloween in Poland is often connected with special theatrical plays and cinema projections." Tomasz B.
        "Halloween - The history of Halloween back to the ancient religion of the Celtes in Ireland. Traditional Halloween symbols: pumpkin, bat, witch, black cat, candles, masks, arties and pranks, ghoust. All Saints Day - celebrated in Poland when people go to the cemetery to visit graves his dead family. And then they light ever-burning fire on the groves their family. This day is free from job. Marcin R.
        "In many countries Halloween is a big festival but in Poland we have other traditions than rest. We don't have here festival like halloween. We only have all Saints Day and It is good for me because I realy do not like festival like halloween." Szymon M.
        "In Poland we celebrate All Saints Day. We go with our families to the church. After church everyone goes to the cementary to light ever-burning fire on the graves of the dead members of our family. After that we go to our houses and we eat common dinner." Bartosz W.
        "Halloween is a tradition celebrated on the night of October 31, most notably by children dressing in costumes and going door-to-door collecting sweets, fruit, and other treats. Apart from this trick-or-treating, there are many other traditional Halloween activities. Some of these include costume parties, watching horror films, going to "haunted" houses, and traditional autumn activities such as hayrides, some of these even "haunted". A more complete coverage of Hallowen customs can be found at Halloween traditions." Bartek D.
        "My All Saints Day its very busy day. I usually go to my family on south poland, I have there my grandfather's grave. After dinner, all togather we are going on mass. After mass we go to the cementary with proccesion to pray for our deceased family, and put some cementery on their graves. This day is very cherful even though all people are thinging about persons which aren't on this world any more. With all family we have very nice day, we talk about evrything, it is simply reunion but i like it." Grzegorz R.

                                                                                        Tomasz B., Marcin R., Szymon M., Bartosz W., Bartek D., Grzegorz R.Zespol Szkol Lacznosci      
                                                                                                                          con la partecipazione dei licei Alessi e Lurçat