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This is Halloween

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"This Is Halloween" scene from Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993).

Scary (short) movies

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In the  school library we watched a selection of awarded short films. Scary ones, of course, because this is Halloween... .  If you missed it, watch the films here: https://www.youtube.com/ playlist?list=PL_ QXdNjMSvDeEXgN1NXeDzjvLkqP5Ke0 V . If you missed it, watch the films here: https://www.youtube.com/ playlist?list=PL_ QXdNjMSvDeEXgN1NXeDzjvLkqP5Ke0 V

The Bestiary Project - A book of imaginary beings (Exhibition)

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Since monsters and other fantastic imaginary creatures are such an omnipresent part of Halloween,  this year we decided to celebrate Halloween by finding out more about beasts, monsters, demons and  mythical creatures and compiling our research  into a modern bestiary. The students created a poster for each creature and the result was an exhibition: THE BESTIARY PROJECT. Traditionally, a bestiary is a collection of short descriptions about all sorts of animals, real and imaginary.   Bestiaries appeared in the twelfth century, as a compilation of many earlier sources, principally the greek Physiologus, dated   400 a.D.  In 1967, the argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges compiled   “El libro de los seres imaginários”, his modern version of a bestiary,   containing descriptions of 120 mythical beasts and creatures from folklore and literature.   His book of imaginary beings was the inspiration for this project . There is a whole iconic imaginary at

Halloween @ aejics part 1

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Halloween

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0 0 Halloween is the season for little ghosts and goblins to take to the streets, asking for candy and scaring one another silly. Spooky stories are told around fires, scary movies appear in theaters and pumpkins are expertly (and not-so-expertly) carved into jack-o'-lanterns. Amid the silly and scary antics, Halloween is much more than just costumes and candy; in fact, the holiday has a rich and interesting history.    Samhain Halloween, also known as All Hallows' Eve, can be traced back about 2,000 years to a pre-Christian Celtic festival held around Nov. 1 called Samhain (pronounced "sah-win"), which means "summer's end" in Gaelic, according to the Indo-European Etymological Dictionaries. Because ancient records are sparse and fragmentary, the exact nature of Samhain is not fully un