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Halloween is an annual festival celebrated on October 31st, featuring many fun activities throughout towns, cities, and the countryside.
From the beginning of October, supermarkets displayed mountains of candy of all kinds and colors alongside toys, decorations, clothes, masks, and food coloring for dressing up as ghosts and goblins.
Markets and some locations in the city sell very large pumpkins, as pumpkins are one of the main symbols of this holiday.
Each city will have a few haunted houses set up for visitors to see during the week of Halloween.
The yards and doorways of each house were decorated with mannequins, crooked graves made of cardboard, and stark white ghosts hanging from trees in the garden. Scattered here and there were life-sized skulls and corpses dressed in real clothes.
Even the most "reserved" houses have piles of dried leaves, straw scarecrows, a few pumpkins carved into smiling or frowning faces placed in front of the house, or decorated with some symbol of the holiday by the window.
During this time, children and teenagers dress up in costumes and masks depicting ghosts, monsters, their favorite cartoon characters, and other characters, then carry lanterns and go from house to house asking for candy.
At each house they visit, the children will knock on the door and say "trick or treat," meaning "If you don't want us to play a trick on you, then give us something!" Usually, the homeowner will leave candy in a bowl outside the gate or give it to them directly.
If you don't give them candy, those "little devils" might vandalize your plants, draw on your doors, or dirty your car... Therefore, houses that don't want to welcome them should close all their doors, turn off all the lights, or, more politely, put up a sign that says "Sorry, no candy..." so they won't ask for candy.
Besides trick-or-treat, Halloween also features many other fun activities such as apple eating contests, fortune telling, and decorating lanterns made from pumpkins carved into human faces.
In particular, Halloween coincides with the most attractive shopping season of the year, with discounts of up to over 75%, making it ideal for shopping enthusiasts.
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