The Halloween Dance
Any and all students from Lake Zurich Middle School South are welcome to join their classmates at the Halloween dance. It will be held on October 25, 2002, the week before Halloween. It will be $4.00 to get in, if you come in costume you get two free sodas and you if don't come in costume it will be 25 cents for a soda. It will be at Middle School South from 7p.m. to 9 p.m. There will be music, dancing, games and prizes to be won. Students are encouraged to wear their Halloween costumes.
The History of Halloween
The custom of Halloween was brought to America by Irish immigrants fleeing their country's potato famine. At that time the favorite pranks in New England included tipping over outhouses and unhinging fence gates. The custom of trick-or-treating is thought to have started with a ninthcentury European custom called souling. On November 2, All Souls Day early Christians would walk from village to village begging for "soul cakes". The more soul cakes the beggars would receive, the more prayers they would promise to say on behalf of the dead relatives of the donors. At the time it was believed that the dead remained in limbo for a time after death, and that prayer, even by strangers, could expedite a soul's passage to heaven. The Jack-o-lantern custom comes from Irish folklore. As the tale is told, a man named Jack, who was notorious as a drunkard and trickster, tricked Satan into climbing a tree. Jack then carved an image of a cross in the tree's trunk, trapping the devil up the tree. Jack made a deal with the devil that, if he would never tempt him again, he would promise to let him down the tree.According to the folk tale, after Jack died, he was denied entrance to Heaven because of his evil ways, but he was also denied access to Hell because he had tricked the devil. Instead, the devil gave him a single light to light his way through the frigid darkness. The light was placed inside a hollowed-out pumkin to keep it glowing longer.Costume Ideas
There are many different costumes to choose from for Halloween. There is Frankenstein, mummy, or a sports players. You could always make something up that no one have ever seen like a nerd, a scuba diver, ...
...a cook or a devil
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