英文；
Halloween or Hallowe'en 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, engaging in vandalism, going to "haunted" houses, and traditional autumn activities such as hayrides, some of these even "haunted". A more complete coverage of Halloween customs can be found at Halloween traditions.
Halloween originated under a different name ("samhain") as a Pagan festival among the Celts of Ireland and Great Britain with mainly Irish and Scots and other immigrants transporting versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century. Most other Western countries have embraced Halloween as a part of American pop culture in the late twentieth century.
Halloween is celebrated in most parts of the Western world, most commonly in the United States, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Peru, and with increasing popularity in Australia and New Zealand. In recent years, Halloween has also been celebrated in parts of Western Europe.
The term Halloween, and its older rendering Hallowe'en, is shortened from All-hallow-even, as it is the evening of/before "All Hallows' Day" (also known as "All Saints' Day"). The holiday was a day of religious festivities in various northern European Pagan traditions, until Popes Gregory III and Gregory IV moved the old Christian feast of All Saints' Day from May 13 to November 1. In the ninth century, the Church measured the day as starting at sunset, in accordance with the Florentine calendar. Although we now consider All Saints' (or Hallows') day to be on the day after Halloween, they were, at that time, considered to be the same day.
In Ireland, the name was All Hallows' Eve (often shortened to Hallow Eve), and though seldom used today, it is still a well-accepted label, albeit somewhat esoteric. The festival is also known as Samhain or Oíche Shamhna to the Irish, Calan Gaeaf to the Welsh, Allantide to the Cornish and Hop-tu-Naa to the Manx. Halloween is also called Pooky Night in some parts of Ireland, presumably named after the puca, a mischievous spirit.
Many European cultural traditions hold that Halloween is one of the liminal times of the year when spirits can make contact with the physical world and when magic is most potent (e.g. Catalan mythology about witches, Irish tales of the Sidhe).
中文翻译；
万圣节或万圣节的传统庆祝的那天晚上， 10月31日，最显着的是儿童服装和敷料在去挨家挨户收集糖果，水果和其他处理。除了这种伎俩或治疗，还有许多其他传统的万圣节活动。其中包括服装各方，看恐怖电影，搞破坏，将“鬼屋”的房屋，和传统的秋季活动，如hayrides ，其中一些甚至是“闹鬼” 。一个更完整的覆盖面万圣节海关可在万圣节的传统。
万圣节是根据不同的名称（ “ samhain ” ）作为一个异教徒节日的凯尔特人的爱尔兰和英国的主要是爱尔兰和苏格兰的移民运送和其他版本的传统，北美在19世纪。大多数其他西方国家已接受万圣节的一部分，美国流行文化在二十世纪后期。
万圣节庆祝大部分地区的西方世界，最常见的在美国，加拿大，英国，爱尔兰，秘鲁，并与日益普及在澳大利亚和新西兰。最近几年，万圣节庆祝活动也已在部分西欧。
任期万圣节，其老年渲染万圣节，缩短从全空心，甚至，因为它是晚上/前“所有圣徒之日” （也称为“万圣节” ） 。假期是一天的宗教庆祝活动在各个北欧异教传统，直到教皇格里高利三和格雷戈里四动议岁基督信徒瞻礼诸圣日从五月13号至十一月一号。在第九世纪，教会测量一天日落时开始，按照佛罗伦萨日历。虽然我们现在考虑诸圣（或圣徒' ）一天要在万圣节后的第二天，他们在当时被认为是同一天。
在爱尔兰，所有圣徒的名字是'除夕（通常缩短到万圣节前夕） ，尽管今天很少使用，但它仍然是一个公认的品牌，尽管有些深奥。该节也所谓Pooky夜的某些部分爱尔兰，大概命名的普卡，一个顽皮的精神。
许多欧洲的文化传统认为，万圣节是一个阈倍的一年可以使精神与物质世界，当魔术队是最强大的（如加泰罗尼亚神话约巫婆，爱尔兰传说Sidhe ） 。
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