Digging up the past – Halloween

  

       Halloween is a holiday celebrated on thirty-firs of October and it’s taken from United States of America.

          Halloween is an awaited celebration by all of children and not only by them. They dress up with costumes. Some of them paint their faces with make-up and others wear masks. Usually, the boys dress on as a pirate, because, they can have a sword and the girls dress on as witch, because they can have a pointed hat and a black cat as a pet. Sometimes, they fly on broomsticks and can turn you into a frog. There are many monsters at Halloween. The legends say that a vampire is a monster that drinks blood, that a mumy is a monster from Egypt, covered with white bandages, that a werewolf is a monster that comes out at full moon, that the ghost haunt houses and scare and kill the people.

         At night, the children go trick or treating. They go from house to house and sing the classical song ‘Trick or treat, small my feet, give me something good to eat, a black cat, a big fat bat, a chocolate hat’,then, the owner of the house give them sweets. The children usually carry a pillowcase to put into the treats tey get.

      The weighbours carve a pumpkin to make a Jack o’ lantern, which make a pact with the devil. They put a candle inside, to light up the face. Halloween is a really good holiday, but nobody understand the real reason of it.

        After the Halloween, with three days, an woman called Kourtney decided to move with her partner, Scott. She said this to her mother, but the mother of Kourtney disliked their idea. She searched a house four monts. In twenty-eight of October they moved in a house in an old district. Of course, they bought a dog, Bernard. The dog was very strange, didn’t want eat and for the afternoon hided in the garden.

           Before some hours, in their house came a neighbor, with a cake. ‘Hi, my name is Leah’, said she, ‘you’re very pretty, but into to house is also strange.’. Kourtney only thanked her for the cake. In the same night Scott geted-up suddenly, thinking that small bad, but he continued sleep.

         At the second morning, he saw all the house, but didn’t find nothing. When Kourtney geted-up, she said that at night saw an outline of a man. Scarried, she remembered that Leah said. In the afternoon, when they watched to TV, the doors begun open and close. Bernard run in the garden. Kourtney scared, but Scott said that maybe was the wind. At the night, Kourtney felt a stench and that one person touched her, but she continued sleep. At the third morning in this district, they prepared the house for Halloween. They decorated the house with a pumpkin, with candles and bats. Children were in the house trick-or-treating and Kourtney went at the bathroom. When, she lokeed at the mirror saw wrote on it ‘Digging up the past’.Suddenly, Bernard started brak. It maked a pit in the garden, where was a skeleton… a skeleton of a person… a real person. At the next morning Scott spoke with an expert, called Matthew. For the jewellery, the mother of Kourtney thinked that it is a skeleton of an Indian. ‘it is just a rather  scary scene which doesn’t tell us much about person buried here.’ Matthew is an expert on Amerindian cultures. He looked at the tomb carefuuly for a couple of minutes and then said: ‘ This is a tomb of a man, probably a rich important warrior. And I’m almost sure that he didn’t die of natural causes.’and scott said: ‘What can you tell?’ said Scott, ‘Easy’ Matthew explains, ‘Do you can see that line on the side of the skull? That’s where the skull was broken by something very heavy.  That probably what killed him. If this man, had died of natural causes, the skull wouldn’t have that fracture. The contenents of the tomb help me determine the occupation and even the rank of the person. In some cultures, people used to bury the dead with some of their belongings and sometimes even with deshes of their favourite foods. If the man hadn’t been rich and important, he wouldn’t have owned those fantastic jewels, the large piece of gold jewellery is in fact something warriors wore over their chests for protection in battle. Like an detective, Matthew analised the remains. ‘ The position of the skeleton is like that of baby in his mother, from this we can deduce that in this man’s culture death was seen as a new birth, the begging of a new life. New, you and Kourtney must speek with a museum and give them all this.’ Scott did this.

              Finally, no all the ghost are bad and no all the ghost want make us scarry. Usually the monsters are more human that us. They, all the ghost and monsters only want say us the true reason for celebrate the Halloween: THE NIGHT, WHEN THE SOULS ARE COMING  BACK.

      

                                             Sara-Marina Ionescu 2ºC