Movies
This movie follows the adventures of Halloweentown as they prepare for Christmas.
What is The Nightmare before Christmas?
This symbols scary face was intended to frighten evil spirits away.
What is a Jack o' Lantern?
This common cooking ingredient is also death to vampires.
What is garlic?
The cacao tree is used to make this tasty substance.
What is chocolate?
In folklore, this is a human with the ability to shapeshift into a wolf on the night of a full moon.
What is a "Werewolf"?
In this movie three evil witches come back to life and try to steal the lives of children to become immortal.
What is Hocus Pocus?
These mythical creatures go out only at night and are closely associated with blood, and the Garlic.
What is a Vampire?
The phrase is a suggestion that if a treat (like candy) is given, then the child will not perform mischief on the owner of the house.
What is "Trick or Treat"?
This candy was origanally called "chicken feed".
What is "candy corn"?
The second-largest consumer holiday in the USA only surpassed by Christmas.
What is Halloween.
In this movie Marnie and her kids follow grandma home and find out that she lives in a town where supernatural beings can live a normal life.
What is Halloween Town?
In the 13th century, the church declared that Satan sometimes took the form of this symbol on Halloween.
What is a black cat?
"Halloween" originated in this country around 1840.
What is Ireland?
Before candy treats were given, this tradition would have people put their head in a tub filled with water and apples, and players would try to catch one with their teeth.
What is "apple bobbing"?
These monsters are know as the "undead" and are created through the reanimation of a human corpse.
What are "Zombies"?
In this movie many teenagers die due to the disfigured midnight mangler Fredy Krueger.
What is Nightmare on Elm Street?
This symbol reminds us that Halloween originates as a holiday about the dead, and they can "rattle around" with the living on Halloween night.
What is a skeleton?
This board is used to ask questions of the dead.
What is a Ouija Board?
The idea for this candy came to a man who worked at The Sweets Company of America who licked his daughter's lollipop at the same time he was chewing a Tootsie Roll.
What are "Tootsie Pops"?
These two things represent the Night and the Autum colors.
What is Black and Orange?
What is Beetlejuice?
Because these creatures were attracted to the bugs and flying insects that gathered around night time bonfires, they have become associated with Halloween.
What are bats?
What is the name of the famous magician who performed sensational escape acts who died on October 31, 1926?
Who is Harry Houdini?
These soft gummy candies that are first sweet then sour were originally know as "Mars Men."
What are Sour Patch Kids?
The Puritan Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony started this faomos superstition.
What is Black Cat?