- Many immigrants do not understand Halloween and have questions about whether it is good or bad, if it conflicts with their religion, or if they should let their children participate.
- For most Canadians, Halloween is not a religious holiday; it has both nice and not nice aspects.
- Nice parts include children trick-or-treating, costume parties, eating candy, and adults enjoying costume parties and scary movies — these are usually just fun.
- Not nice parts involve fear, disrespect of bodies, and witches; some people dislike how homes are decorated or how people dress.
- You can enjoy Halloween while avoiding the parts you don’t like.
- Trick-or-treating involves children (and some adults) wearing costumes, going door-to-door, shouting “Trick or Treat,” and receiving candy or treats, which parents check before children eat them.
- Entertainment includes costume parties, ghost stories, haunted houses, bobbing for apples, and scary movies.
- Decorations are typically orange and black.
- Jack-o-lanterns are made by hollowing out a pumpkin, carving a face, placing a candle inside, and putting it in a window or near the front door.
- Things found in old houses: spiders, spider webs, bats, owls, crows.
- Things connected with death: gravestones, skeletons, skulls, body parts.
- Scary people: ghosts, witches with brooms and black cats, monsters such as Frankenstein, zombies, and vampires.
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