From Samhain to trick-or-treat: festivals and folk customs
Halloween · C1 · 15 words
About this vocabulary deck
Fifteen words for talking about the history of Halloween and its cousins around the world: rituals, offerings, effigies, guising and the festivals that commemorate the departed.
- Level
- C1
- Topic
- Halloween
- Theme
- Free time & culture
- Words
- 15 words with meanings and examples
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First words in the deck
- pagan — relating to religions that existed before Christianity, or outside the main world religions
- eve — the day or evening before an important day or festival
- ritual — a set of actions always done in the same way, often as part of a ceremony