Halloween History
"Souling," a medieval custom in which people would go door to door offering prayers in exchange for soul cakes became this modern tradition
Trick-or-treating
This iconic scream queen gave us Laurie in Halloween and Dean Munsch in Scream Queens
Jamie Lee Curtis
This candy will make you laugh with a joke written on every wrapper
Laffy Taffy
This plant repels vampires
"What's your favorite scary movie?"
Scream
This country is considered the birthplace of Halloween
Ireland
Queen of campy horror, this actress has played everything from a witch to a sorority president and was most recently the star of American Horror Story's latest season
Emma Roberts
Dairy farmer H. B. Reese created this top-selling candy that remains one of the most popular Halloween candies
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
This specter uses a jack-o-lantern in place of his head
The headless horseman
"I smell a child"
Hocus Pocus
Jack-o-lanterns were originally carved out of this root vegetable
Turnips
She's Buffy, she's Daphne, she knows what you did last summer!
Sarah Michelle Gellar
This candy came on the scene in the 1880s and was designed to look like chicken feed
Candy Corn
Vlad the Impaler is known more famously by this spooky name
Dracula
"I myself am strange and unusual"
Beetlejuice
This short story helped popularize Halloween in the US
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
This actress gave us horror's most iconic opening scene when she was making popcorn before being murdered in the first five minutes of the film
Drew Barrymore
This candy can't catch a break in Japan, where it has been sold in more than 350 flavors
Kit Kats
Coulrophobia is the fear of this sometimes scary thing
Clowns
"Being normal is vastly overrated"
Halloweentown
While the color black symbolizes death, the traditional Halloween color orange symbolizes this
Harvest
You can find this modern scream queen on the big screen ballet dancing, living in a wellness center, screaming at a scarecrow, and becoming a movie star
Mia Goth
Mars and Murrie were the businessmen who developed and financed this candy
M&M's
Witches appear in this Shakespeare play to deliver the spooky line, "double, double, toil and trouble"
Macbeth
"He'll come here because I have the most sincere pumpkin patch and he respects sincerity"
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown