Creatures
What is the more common word for a lycanthrope?
Werewolf
Since vandalism and mischief became a problem on Halloween in the 20th century, the tradition of offering neighborhood children sweets to prevent them from targeting you became what we call this:
Alternatively, the precursor to this modern day tradition was previously called "souling".
Trick-or-Treating
Famadihanna, or the Turning of the Bones, is a celebration where family exhumes the body of a relative and dance with the bones in honor of the deceased person's life, and is celebrated in this East African Country.
Madagascar
The Stanley Hotel, apparently haunted by the owners who built the hotel in 1909, inspired which famous horror book turned horror movie?
The Shining by Stephen King
The Irish legend of Stingy Jack is responsible for appearance of this traditional Halloween decoration.
Jack O'Lanterns
The superstition around black cats emerged in the 14th century, when people believed that a black cat crossing your path signified that you would die by this epidemic.
The Black Death
This original name evolved into "Halloween", which is the night before All Saints' Day.
All Hallows Eve
Perchenlaufen, a Central European holiday, has these devil-like, goat-looking creature costumes parade down the streets to ward off evil winter spirits.
Krampus
This iconic landmark of England is said to be haunted by the ghosts of several members of the British royal family, including Anne Boleyn and Mary, Queen of Scots.
Tower of London
Black and Orange are typically associated with Halloween. What are each of these colors meant to represent?
Orange: The Harvest/Fall, as well as strength and endurance
Black: Death and Darkness
One of the first mentions of a witch is the Witch of Endor, found in this internationally famous text.
The Bible
In the second half of the 19th century, this event caused a flood of Halloween-celebrating immigrants into America, which helped to popularize the holiday nationally.
The Irish Potato Famine
In China and other Asian countries, this festival is celebrated as the day when the dead visit the living, and the living are meant to prepare food offerings for the deceased.
Hungry Ghost Festival
The Shanghai Tunnels (in Portland, Oregon, of course) is said to be haunted by the souls of those who fell prey to this human trafficking method in the sewers beneath the city and never made it back to the surface alive.
Shanghaiing (forcing someone to join a ship lacking a full crew by drugging them or using other underhanded means, in this case trapdoors and sewer systems.)
If you wear your clothes inside out and walk backwards on Halloween, what are you supposed to see at midnight?
A Witch
This ailment also goes by the name "Vampire Disease", as it effects the proteins in your red blood cells.
Porphyria
Halloween evolved from this ancient Celtic festival, where people light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off ghosts.
Samhain
This is a Japanese festival, where the dead visit living relatives and paper lanterns are lit in their remembrance.
Obon
This famous building in New Orleans is supposedly haunted by the spirits of the slaves who were tortured and killed here by the owner of the home.
LaLaurie Mansion
The word "witch" evolved from this Old English word, meaning "wise woman", as witches were once respected as medicinal healers rather than feared as consorting with evil.
Wicce/Wiccan
This creature is the offspring of a vampire and a human.
Dhampir
The tradition of bobbing for apples most likely emerged when the Roman empire conquered Celtic lands and joined their celebration of this Goddess (whose symbol was the apple) with the pre-existing Celtic traditions.
Pomona, the goddess of fruits and trees
In Haitian culture, the Ghede are a mythological family that embody the powers of death and fertility. What is the name of the family member that represents the corpse of the first person to have ever died?
Papa Ghede
This landmark of your RA's home town is famously haunted by two girls who were playing in a transport cart, which broke loose from its rail and plummeted the girls to their deaths in the nearby bay. There is also a groundskeeper that sticks around.
St. Augustine Light House
In Des Moines, Iowa, children go trick-or-treating on the night before Halloween as well. The catch with this day, though, is that the children have to perform a joke, act, poem, song, etc in order to get candy. Started as way to prevent vandalism, what is this night called?
Beggars Night