halloween

Halloween Costumes

The tradition of wearing Halloween costumes has its origin’s in the pagan rituals Samhain and Christian All Saints Day Celebrations. The wearing of costumes can be traced back to two popular customs. The first involves the wearing of clothing to remember and honor recently departed family members or loved ones. Since people believed the layer [...]

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Halloween Decorating

Few things are more thrilling for a trick-or-treater than walking up to a house detailed with ghastly Halloween decorations. Whether you use complicated props like swooping ghosts, or simple, classic decorations, like glowing jack-o-lanterns, scarecrows, and indian corn, your house will delight visitors. A haunted yard, complete with fun Halloween decorations, makes a fine setting [...]

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Halloween Parties

Halloween is the day of the year that has the most parties thrown in its honor. Everyone loves to dress up and attend Halloween parties with their friends. Most people end up getting several invitations to different Halloween parties that are often on the same night. If you are planning to throw your own Halloween [...]

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Halloween Fun Facts

Over 50% of Americans will purchase a costume for Halloween The average costume costs just under $30 Americans will spend over 3 billion dollars on Halloween costumes this year One third of all candy sold in the United States is sold for Halloween Halloween sales of candy is over 2 billion dollars annually Candy manufacturers [...]

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Halloween Candy

As Halloween changed form a serious community religious ritual to a more secular holiday, and children became more involved, the introduction of candy and other sweets was only natural. Before the time of mass produced chocolate or other confectionary treats it was common to give children candied apples or caramel apples. While there were isolated [...]

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Trick or Treat

The practice of trick or treating is believed to have come from the pagan festival of Samhain. Beggars or children would go throughout the town “begging” for “soul cakes” from the town’s inhabitants. The soul cakes were square breads that contained fruits or currants. The person who gave the cake would tell the children the [...]

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Halloween Traditions

Halloween is a holiday that has its traditions rooted in centuries old traditions. For example the tradition of dressing in costume on Halloween was a way of remembering and honoring recently departed loved ones. It was also a disguise used to ward or scare off sprits that temporarily crossed into the world of the living [...]

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Jack-O-Lantern History

The history of the Jack o Lantern custom is thought to date back to an old Irish tale. The story says that a man named Jack (who was a famous trickster), fooled Satan into climbing a tree and then trapped him there by carving images of a cross in the trunk of the tree. Jack [...]

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Origins of Halloween

Halloween, is a holiday with a deep history and is celebrated every year on October 31. Although Halloween is not seen as a religious holiday, the origins of the word Halloween comes from the Catholic Church- as in the Catholic religion, November 1 is known as All Hallows Day (a day to honor all saints). [...]

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History of Halloween

Like many modern holidays the history of Halloween is based in ancient pagan rituals and celebrations. November 1st originally marked the end of summer and was celebrated with a huge feast including everyone in the village. Each family in the village would gather for the feast and bring a candle. The fire from each candle [...]

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