Halloween 1
What animals that are associated with witches are bad luck if one crosses your path?
Answer: Black cats.
Many of the negative superstitions associated with black cats come from a poem written by a Roman poet named Ovid. Black cats are often the least adopted and most overlooked cats in animal shelters. In some cultures, black cats are a symbol of luck and happiness. For example, in England, the Netherlands, and Asia, black cats are respected and adored.
What Halloween monster is wrapped in bandages?
Answer: A mummy.
A mummy is a dead body that is preserved either naturally or by chemicals. Ancient Egyptians believed in life after death, and mummification, or the process of making a body into a mummy, was a way to prepare the body for that afterlife.
What do kids do on Halloween to get candy?
Answer: Trick or Treat.
The first trick-or-treaters were poor children in medieval Europe, who would go door-to-door begging for food and money during the Celtic holiday Samhain, celebrated on October 31. In exchange, they would offer to pray for the souls of their neighbors’ recently departed loved ones.
What do you say when a trick or treater comes to your door?
Answer: “Happy Halloween!” or “Trick or Treat!”
What do you call the Halloween character that is big, tall, scary, and usually green?
Answer: Frankenstein’s Monster.
What are the bones in our body called?
Answer: Skeleton.
The collection of bones in an animal’s body is called a skeletal system, or skeleton. Mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish have skeletal systems.
What flying animal is associated with a vampire?
Answer: A bat.
The beginnings of the vampire-bat association are relatively simple. When Europeans discovered the Americas in the late 15th and 16th Centuries, explorers found the presence of the Desmodus Rotundus in Central and South America, the creature that would later become known as the ‘Vampire Bat’.
What is the traditional Halloween activity of carving faces into pumpkins called?
Answer: Pumpkin carving or Jack-o’-lantern carving.
In what country did Halloween originate?
The holiday has evolved from the festival of Samhain, which was celebrated among the Celts of ancient Britain and Ireland.
Which famous magician died on Halloween?
Harry Houdini. The story is absolutely tragic.
From base to point, what is the order of the colors on a piece of candy corn?
Answer: Yellow, orange, and white.
In which country can you find sugar skulls during the Halloween season?
Answer: Mexico.
What repels vampires, according to legend?
Garlic, mirrors, sunlight, crucifixes, and holy water.
What is the name of the Romanian region where Dracula’s castle is located?
Answer: Transylvania.
According to the Halloween myth, what happens if a bat flies around you or your home thrice on Halloween?
Answer: Someone in the house will die.
Bats are commonly said to indicate that the house they frequent is haunted, and an old German myth relates that if a bat flies into your house, the devil is after you.
If a werewolf bites someone, what turns them into one themselves?
Answer: The full moon
One popular term for werewolves, lycanthrope, comes from the Greek word lykos, meaning “wolf.” One Greek myth concerns a man named Lycaon, who was turned into a wolf by the gods as a punishment for trying to trick the god Zeus into eating human flesh.
Is a pumpkin a fruit or a vegetable?
Answer: It’s a fruit.
Who would’ve thought, right? But it gets even more interesting. A pumpkin is technically a fruit of the berry family.
Which holiday comes after Halloween in Mexico?
Day of the dead
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What phobia do you suffer from if you have an extreme fear of Halloween?
Answer: Samhainophobia.
People with this specific phobia feel anxious when they think about or experience anything to do with Halloween. Many people with samhainophobia have gone through a past traumatic situation related to Halloween.
What creature might you be if you have a long middle finger?
Answer: A werewolf.
What do you call a group of witches?
Answer: A coven.
According to superstition, if you stare into a mirror at midnight on Halloween, what will you see?
Answer: Your future spouse.
This isn’t the only spooky mirror superstition around! Some people believe that if a loved one dies in their home, you need to cover the mirrors. They believe this because if they don’t, their soul could wander around and get trapped inside a mirror.
According to superstition, a person born on Halloween has what particular ability?
Answer: The ability to see and talk to spirits.
There are lots of other superstitions about babies born on Halloween! It is also believed that babies born on Halloween are immune to evil spirits and can read dreams. Additionally, they were believed to be knights and kings in first-century England!
Why should a person wear a costume on Halloween?
Answer: To deceive evil spirits.
A tradition that began hundreds of years ago, people wore masks when they left their homes. They wore masks and scary costumes, hoping that real ghosts would think the people were also ghosts. Legend has it that this practice began the custom of wearing Halloween costumes on our favorite night of the year.