halloween

     

Halloween, or Hallowe'en, is a holiay celebrated on the night of October 31. Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, ghost tours, bonfires, costume parties, visiting "haunted houses" and carving jack-o-lanterns. Irish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century. Other western countries embraced the holiday in the late twentieth century. Halloween is celebrated in several countries of the Western world, most commonly in Ireland, the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, the United Kingdom, and occasionally in parts of Australia and New Zealand.

Trivia about halloween

  • "The Babysitter Murders" was the working title for this 1978 thriller
  • In 1972 the mayor of Burbank, Illinois limited trick or treating on this holiday
  • Don't let it scare you but this October holiday was originally a Celtic festival for the dead
  • The fourth installment of this horror movie series was subtitled "The Return of Michael Myers"
  • Kids in Somerset, England call pumpkins "punkies", & "Punky Night" is their version of this celebration
  • Not the frost, but the blood was on the punkin in this 1978 Jamie Lee Curtis film
  • In medieval times witches were believed to fly on this holiday & bonfires were set to ward them off
  • Michael Myers
  • It's celebrated the evening before All Saints' Day
  • It's the modern & better known name for the pagan festival in autumn known as Samhain
  • National UNICEF Day coincides with this other holiday
  • This holiday is celebrated on what was once the last day of the Celtic year
  • One of the witches' sabbaths is Samhain, an old Celtic end of summer festival, that today is this
  • The eve of All Saints' Day
  • Wearing costumes on this day goes back to a medieval practice of dressing as angels & demons
  • On this holiday, people once placed bowls of food outside their homes to appease ghosts
  • Reports say the first observance of this October 31st holiday held
  • Harry Houdini died on this day in 1926--spooky!
  • Michael Myers kills his sister on the title occasion of this 1978 horror film
  • This holiday is the night before All Saints' Day
  • The pagan New Year festival of Samhain evolved into this current observance
  • Least popular candies for this annual event:"Malted Meat Balls", "Good N' Clammy" & "Bit-O-Monkey"
  • Jamie Lee Curtis made her film debut in this 1978 flick--pretty scary
  • Psycho killer Mike Myers wears Bill's face--a Captain Kirk mask, painted white--in this 1978 horror classic
  • Collecting money for UNICEF on this holiday was begun in 1950 by a Philadelphia Sunday school class
  • Director John Carpenter wrote music for this Jamie Lee Curtis horror film & its 4 sequels
  • Begun more than 2,000 years ago & meaning "summer's end", Samhain was a Celtic festival that has evolved into this holiday
  • Detroit became notorious for "Devil's Night", a yearly arson spree on the eve of this day
  • Originally this holiday was celebrated on the last day of the Celtic year