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00:16Tofu, please finish your breakfast first.
00:20No, I want to play first.
00:23I don't like it anyway.
00:25Tofu, it is not nice to leave your food like that.
00:29You should be thankful to your food and eat it respectfully.
00:48This is a very old story.
00:50It is from the year 1620
00:54when a group of pilgrims came from Europe
00:57in a ship called the Mayflower
01:01to the east coast of United States.
01:10We have reached this new land and we shall make it our home now.
01:15Let us call it Plymouth.
01:21Yes, and this big rock by which Plymouth is recognised
01:26will be called the Plymouth Rock.
01:30We shall make a settlement here.
01:40And so the pilgrims got busy trying to make a settlement in their new home.
01:48But they had arrived in the peak of winter with little resources and no food.
01:54Oh! This is such a difficult winter.
01:57We have almost no food.
02:00The men go and catch whatever fish they can find in the freezing lakes
02:06but it is not always enough.
02:08Yes, and a sickness has taken over our people.
02:14We have lost so many strong men and women already.
02:18It is very difficult without proper food and supplies to take care of them.
02:23Yes, look at what happened to our brother James Chilton and his wife.
02:31They've both died leaving behind little Mary Chilton.
02:39Poor Mary, she's only 13 years old.
02:43She's been living in the mountains for a long time now.
02:46But without her mother and father to take care of her
02:50we will have to make sure she is safe.
02:54And so Mary was taken under the care of all other pilgrims.
03:06But it was a hard sickness and people died from extreme cold
03:11lack of food and the sickness.
03:14This meant Mary had to work hard.
03:18Many of the older women amongst the pilgrims had died.
03:26And the remaining work had to be shared by everyone.
03:35Mary took care of cooking and the cattle.
03:39Mary took care of cooking and laundry for the men and boys
03:44whose wives or mothers had died.
04:01Then one day in March
04:04two strangers called Samoset and Squanto
04:09visited the settlement.
04:13They were native Indians who lived on the land.
04:19Hello settlers, welcome to your new home.
04:23Thank you. Who are you?
04:25I am Samoset.
04:27I am the leader of the Abenaki people.
04:30I am the leader of the Abenaki people.
04:34And this is Squanto from the Wampanoag tribe.
04:39Hello Samoset and Squanto.
04:42How is it that you speak such good English?
04:46I have had experience with other settlers who know English.
04:51We see that we are having trouble with food.
04:55Squanto here can teach you how to grow food on this soil.
05:01And so the pilgrims made new friends
05:04and learnt how to grow food in their new home.
05:10They learnt that using fish as fertilizers
05:14will help their crops grow better.
05:18With the help of Squanto and the other people of his tribe
05:24the pilgrims grew a healthy crop of beans
05:29pumpkins
05:31and corns.
05:35To celebrate the harvest, the pilgrims invited
05:40King Massasoit of the Wampanoag tribe to the feast.
05:51King Massasoit's men helped the settlers hunt for the feast.
05:58And large feast of corn
06:01roasted meat
06:04pie, fruits was laid.
06:08The pilgrims dedicated this day to getting together with friends and family
06:15and thanking God for the abundance of good food
06:24and loving people in our lives.
06:29I get it now, Tia.
06:31We should be thankful for the abundance of food we have.
06:35I shall respectfully eat whatever is served to me.
06:40That is so wonderful, Tofu.
06:42I am proud of you.
06:54Hi, Tia.
06:55Hi, Tofu.
06:57How was school?
06:58Oh, it was great.
07:01How was your day?
07:03It was good too, Tofu.
07:05We are deciding the theme for this year's Halloween party
07:09and there were so many ideas going about.
07:12It was a lot of fun.
07:15Halloween party!
07:17Wow, Tia!
07:20That sounds like fun.
07:22It was so nice of someone to invent a day
07:26for wearing costumes and collecting treats.
07:31Is that why you think we celebrate Halloween?
07:35You mean to say, that's not why we celebrate Halloween?
07:41Then why do we celebrate it?
07:44Yes, Tofu.
07:46We celebrate Halloween because it is Halloween.
07:49Why do we celebrate it?
07:51Yes, Tofu.
07:52There is a lot more to Halloween than just the scary stories and trick-or-treating.
07:59Let me tell you a bit of history behind Halloween's day.
08:19lived in regions that are now Ireland, Britain and Northern France.
08:25This was long, long back, even before Jesus Christ.
08:32The Celts had a tradition of remembering those who had died
08:38and keeping the evil spirits peaceful.
08:41They did this every year on 31st October and it was called Samhain.
08:49But their practices were opposed to the Christian way.
08:54Hence, nearly 700 years after Christ,
08:58the head of the Catholic Church moved an important Christian day,
09:04the All Saints' Day, to 1st November.
09:09He thought everyone would forget about Samhain.
09:15All Saints' Day?
09:16What is that?
09:18It is a Christian festival in honour of all the saints in heaven.
09:24Earlier, it was celebrated on 1st of May.
09:29Did it work, the shifting of the festival?
09:34Well, no.
09:36It didn't work.
09:38People didn't forget about Samhain.
09:41Though it didn't spread as fast as it used to earlier.
09:46But, Tia, how did Halloween come about?
09:50Since November 1st was the day of celebrating the Holy Spirits,
09:56the evening before that became the Holy Evening or All Hallow Even.
10:05Hallow is the old word for Holy
10:10and Even is the old word for Holy.
10:15Soon, All Hallow Even became Halloween.
10:21So, it has nothing to do with dressing up?
10:26It does, Tofu.
10:28In fact, dressing up as spirits and ghosts became a part
10:33of the All Saints' Day celebration because people who celebrated Samhain
10:39believed that wearing scary costumes would scare away the evil spirits
10:45and keep them away.
10:48Just like the pumpkin you love to carve every Halloween.
10:54Oh no!
10:55No!
10:56The Jack of Lantern too!
11:03Hahaha!
11:05Yes, Tofu.
11:07People carve the pumpkin and keep it outside their homes
11:12to ward off the evil spirits.
11:16Wow, Tia!
11:18I never knew Halloween had such a different meaning.
11:23Thank you for telling me all this.
11:26Come on, now let's go home and I will help you find a really scary ghost.
11:33Find a really scary theme for your Halloween party.