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Bluenose Ghosts by: Helen Creighton

Halloween is celebrated in Canada on or around October 31. It is a day to mark the single night in the year when, according to old Celtic beliefs, spirits and the dead can cross over into the world of the living. .

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Bluenose Ghosts by: Helen Creighton

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  1. Halloween is celebrated in Canada on or around October 31. It is a day to mark the single night in the year when, according to old Celtic beliefs, spirits and the dead can cross over into the world of the living.

  2. Halloween has Celtic origins. In pre-Christian times, many people believed that spirits from the underworld and ghosts of dead people could visit the world of the living on the night of October 31. These spirits could harm the living or take them back to the underworld. To avoid this, people started dressing up as ghosts and spirits if they left their homes on October 31. They hoped that this would confuse the ghosts and spirits.

  3. Halloween was also a time, when spirits might give messages to people. In some areas, it was traditional for unmarried girls to pour molten lead into water. The shape that the lead took when it hardened was seen as a clue to the professions of their future husbands. Halloween traditions were brought to Canada by Irish and Scottish immigrants.

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  5. Bluenose Ghostsby: Helen Creighton Your Task Read - Forerunners Record types of forerunners (this can be done once you have finished reading)

  6. Bluenose Ghosts • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YluRwXqxdNw • 22 minutes – very old

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