Halloween is a festival that takes place on October 31. In the United States children wear costumes and masks and go trick-or-treating. Halloween developed from new year festivals and festivals of the dead. The pumkin is a simbol of this holiday in which offensive face is cut out. A lighted candle is put into the pumkin. Christian church established a festival on November 1 called all Saint"t Day so that people could continue to celebrates their festivals. Fortunetelling is an important part of Halloween. For Example, the coin, the ring and the thimble were baked into a cake. People once believed that there were many ghosts and witches on the Earth and that they met on October 31 to worship the devil. Today, people do not believe in ghosts ans witchers, but they like to tell stories about them on Halloween.