Mexico
This colorful Mexican holiday is celebrated from October 31st to November 2nd to honor loved ones who have passed away.
What is Día de los Muertos (or Day of the Dead)?
Count Dracula, one of fiction's most famous monsters, comes from Transylvania in this European country.
What is Romania?
This classic autumn treat consists of fresh fruit on a stick dipped in a warm, sticky melted sugar coating.
What is a caramel / candy apple?
Children dress up in costumes and go door-to-door on Halloween night saying these three famous words to collect candy.
What is "Trick or Treat"?
Many people around the world use this days to remember who?
Who are their Ancestors?
These bright orange flowers are used to guide spirits back home with their vibrant color and strong scent.
What are marigolds (or Cempasúchil)?
According to Latin American folklore, this weeping ghost wanders near water searching for her lost children.
Who is La Llorona?
This controversial, triangular candy has distinct stripes of yellow, orange, and white.
What is Candy Corn?
Halloween is celebrated every year on this exact date in the autumn season.
What is October 31st?
In Germany, families traditionally hide these sharp kitchen items during All Souls' Week so returning spirits don't accidentally get hurt.
What are knives?
Families build these traditional altars in their homes decorated with photos, candles, and favorite foods of the deceased.
What is an Ofrenda?
This famous green monster, created in a lab by a scientist, is easily recognized by the flat top of his head and the metal bolts in his neck.
Who is Frankenstein
What warm beverage made from pressed apples and spiced with cinnamon is a staple at fall harvest festivals?
What is Apple Cider?
This famous 19th-century American ghost story by Washington Irving features a headless horseman chasing schoolmaster Ichabod Crane on a crisp autumn night.
What is The Legend of Sleepy Hollow?
On All Saints' Day, families across Poland illuminate entire cemeteries by lighting thousands of these, creating a glowing landscape after dark.
What are candles?
What is the name of the sweet, soft bread baked specifically around this dates, often decorated with dough "bones"?
What is Pan de Muerto?
In Greek mythology, this terrifying snake-haired woman turns anyone who looks directly into her eyes straight into stone.
Who is Medusa?
In many parts of West Africa, this starchy, tuberous root crop is harvested during the autumn months and roasted, boiled, or pounded into traditional comfort dishes.
What are sweet potatoes (or roasted yams)?
Before pumpkins became the standard, the Irish and Scottish traditionally carved these root vegetables to ward off evil spirits.
What are turnips?
This adult-focused district in Tokyo became globally famous for massive, unorganized Halloween cosplay street gatherings.
What is Shibuya?
This iconic female skeleton figure wearing an elegant hat was created by artist José Guadalupe Posada to satirize Mexican elite culture.
Who is La Catrina?
This shape-shifting clown from a famous Stephen King horror story wakes up every 27 years to terrorize a small Maine town.
Who is Pennywise (or It)?
Eaten in Asia during the autumn Mid-Autumn Festival, these rich, round pastries are filled with lotus seed or red bean paste and a salted duck egg yolk representing the full moon.
What are mooncakes?
This modern-day country is universally recognized as the birthplace of Halloween and the ancient festival of Samhain.
What is Ireland?
In Ecuador, families gather in cemeteries around November 2 to consume a traditional thick, purple fruit beverage called Colada Morada, paired with sweet bread shaped like these.
What are babies?