Halloween Treat
Just this moment, i decided to post something that is relevant to the most captivating holidays and currently celebrated by both adults and children, Halloween. The usual celebration of Halloween involves stuff that aims to scare and triggers heart attack (in some cases but nearly to impossible). It commonly includes, of course the most popular, trick-or-treating, wearing scary or monster character costumes and attending costume parties, create jack-o’-lanterns, ghost tours, visiting haunted attractions, telling ghost stories or other frightening tales, and watching horror films. I think i don’t need to elaborate more about the origin of Halloween because other famous online encyclopedia already written something about it instead i would like to ask you how well do you really know Halloween and the meaning of the colors, symbols, activities accompanying it. I’ve got some trivia that might surprise you if you just discover it when you read this and some great sites help me this or simply put a bland reaction for those who knew this already.
Spooky Halloween Trivia
- Wearing masks during Halloween can be traced back from the Ancient Celts. They would wear these masks in hopes that the ghosts they believe wandered around the countryside on Halloween night would not recognize them as humans
- Halloween was brought to North America by immigrants from Europe who would celebrate the harvest around a bonfire, share ghost stories, sing, dance and tell fortunes.
- Jack o’ Lanterns originated in Ireland where people placed candles in hollowed-out turnips to keep away spirits and ghosts on the Samhain holiday.
- Orange and black are said to be the colors for Halloween because black is associated with darkness and death and orange is associated with the Fall harvest.
- Mostly pumpkins are orange but they also come in dark green, light green, white, red, gray, blue, and orange-yellow color. Different colors will add to uniqueness and creativity to your carvings.
- Halloween is the 2nd most commercially successful holiday, with Christmas being the first.
- Mexico celebrates ‘The Day of the Dead’ instead of Halloween.
- It is believed that the Irish began the tradition of Trick or Treating. In preparation for All Hallow’s Eve, Irish townsfolk would visit neighbors and ask for contributions of food for a feast in the town.
- Black cats were once believed to be witch’s familiars who protected their powers.
Scary Creatures Trivia or List?
An additional trivia but actually a list of the Halloween’s top 5 scary creatures. Don’t kill the party instead give a break and review the round up.
1 . Jack O’Lantern – This nutritious pumpkin is the Halloween’s famous symbol. Glowing, frightening faces emanating from the pumpkins were meant to frighten off the evil spirits thought to roam the streets on Oct. 31, the Celtic New Year’s Eve.
2. Bats – The buddy of Vampires.Like their Draculian counterparts, a small number of bat species actually subsist on animal blood’s vampire bats have been known to attack humans on occasion using sharp teeth to cut into the sleeping victim. Their nocturnal ways and connection to Ozzy Osbourne probably don’t help either.
3. Witches – This creepy creature exists both in real world and in cartoon. In the past, witches were thought to possess magical powers connected with the natural world. Like all pagans, they were demonized as heretics by the Christian church, a hunt that reached its apex in medieval Europe and 17th-century America. Good luck picking them out of a crowd today: witch costumes frequently top the list at Halloween.
4. Ghosts – Get your blanket and use it to cover yourself. In this way, you’ve got the easiest Halloween costume. But seriously Ghost is scary. Most kids and even adults are afraid of them no matter how type of ghost it is as long as it’s unimaginable. Here’s the thing, When a human dies the energy including what’s in the body can never be completely destroyed, explained by some parapsychologists. And those energy become the spirit of unrest souls or the Ghosts.
5. Vampires – So are you afraid of Edward Cullen? Well, let’s set aside the glamorous and unbelievable role of Edward. From the 18th and 19th-century myths of Eastern Europe, it was believed that someone who was born with deformities or died an irregular death could, after burial, rise again to terrorize the living. Vampires were considered eundeade and needed to feast on human blood to remain so.
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