Movies
These three witch sisters, Winifred, Sarah, and Mary, are resurrected in Salem on Halloween night in the 1993 film Hocus Pocus.
Who are the Sanderson Sisters?
In the early 20th century, Irish and Scottish immigrants brought this Halloween tradition, originally involving carved turnips, to America, where pumpkins took their place.
What is jack-o’-lantern carving?
In Haitian Vodou, these small figures are often used in rituals to represent a person, allowing practitioners to direct spells or healing toward them.
What are poppets (or dolls)?
In classical Greek religion, this group of deities was often worshiped in connection with nature, fertility, and the cycles of the seasons.
Who are the Olympians?
At Victorian Halloween parties, children and young adults participated in a ritual meant to foretell romantic prospects: they attempted to seize this fruit from a basin using only their mouths.
What is an apple?
This 1988 Tim Burton film features a mischievous “bio-exorcist” who helps a recently deceased couple scare away the living.
What is Beetlejuice?
Celebrated on November 1st and 2nd in Mexico, this holiday honors deceased loved ones with altars, marigolds, and sugar skulls. Give your answer in Spanish.
What is Día de los Muertos?
This sorceress of Greek mythology, who lived on the island of Aeaea, is famous for turning Odysseus’ men into pigs in Homer’s Odyssey.
Who is Circe?
This Mesoamerican civilization is known for its elaborate pyramids, calendar systems, and ritual ceremonies honoring the sun, maize, and other natural forces.
Who are the Mayan people?
Before becoming the iconic centerpiece of Halloween, pumpkins were native to this region, where indigenous peoples cultivated them for food long before European colonization.
What is Mesoamerica?
Laurie Strode’s quiet Halloween night turns deadly when she’s stalked by a masked killer in this 1978 slasher that launched a franchise.
What is Halloween?
The word “Halloween” comes from a contraction of “All Hallows’ Eve,” the night before this Christian holiday.
What is All Saints Day?
This 1953 play by Arthur Miller dramatizes the Salem witch trials as an allegory for McCarthyism in 1950s America.
What is The Crucible?
In many pagan traditions, this stone arrangement, often circular, was used to mark sacred spaces, align with celestial events, or perform rituals.
What is a henge?
Before mass-produced candy became the Halloween standard in the early 20th century, children going door-to-door were often given these humble treats, reflecting older harvest and charitable traditions.
What are nuts, fruits, or coins?
In this 2017 film, a weekend trip to meet his girlfriend’s parents turns into a surreal nightmare of hypnotism, racism, and horror.
What is Get Out?
In the 19th century, immigrants from this country helped popularize Halloween in America by bringing many of the traditions we recognize today such as Jack-o-lantern carving and trick-or-treating.
What is Ireland?
This 2017 Taylor Swift song includes the lyric, “They’re burning all the witches, even if you aren’t one.”
What is “I Did Something Bad”?
This traditional Japanese religion focuses on worshiping nature, ancestors, and spirits, and is considered the indigenous faith of Japan.
What is Shinto?
On All Hallows’ Eve in medieval and Victorian Europe, people would receive these small round pastries in exchange for prayers for the dead, a tradition that influenced modern trick-or-treating.
What are soul cakes?
Set in 1630s New England, this film follows a Puritan family whose isolation in the wilderness leads to paranoia, witchcraft, and the chilling promise to “live deliciousl
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In early 20th-century America, Halloween became a community-centered holiday with parades and parties, partly to reduce this kind of mischief common on the night.
What is vandalism.
This German city was the site of one of the largest witch trials in Europe, where hundreds were executed between 1626 and 1631.
What is Bamberg?
This ancient Canaanite storm and fertility god, often associated with rain and crops, has appeared in video games, comic books, and TV shows as a powerful demon or deity.
Who is Baal?
This spiced, roasted pumpkin dish, served in colonial New England, is considered the precursor to the modern pumpkin pie.
What is pumpkin pudding?