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400

This insect can live for up to a month without its head.

What is a cockroach?

400

This Mexican holiday is observed from October 31 to November 2.

What is Dia de los Meurtos?

400

The literal translation of this creature's name is "goat sucker."

What is a chupacabra?

400

This animal has have been the subject of myth and folklore for centuries, often associated with bad luck.

What is a black cat?

400

Bad luck is said to come in this number.

What are threes?

800

This moth has a skull pattern on its abdomen.

What is a death’s-head hawk moth?

800

This is the area where the Gaelic festival Samhain is held.

What is Scotland and/or Ireland?

800

A colony of this species can drink the blood of up to 26 cows annually.

What is a vampire bat?

800

This bird can remember faces and even pass down this information to later generations.

What is a crow?

800

Throwing this over one's shoulder to ward off evil.

What is salt?

1200

This fungus infects insects such as ants or spiders, drains its host completely of nutrients, and fills its body with spores that will let the fungus reproduce.

What is cordyceps?

1200

Instead of a pumpkin, people in England might carve "punkies" from this vegetable.

What is a beet?

1200

This bloodthirsty bird can be found on the Galapagos Islands.

What is a vampire finch?

1200

This type of tree often found in European cemeteries.

What is a yew tree?

1200

In many Asian cultures this number is considered unlucky.

What is the number four?

1600

This insect carries the bodies of its victims on its back. 

What is an assassin bug?

1600

Residents of Belgium may do this on All Saints' Day in memory of deceased loved ones.

What is light a candle?

1600

This member of the Glossiphoniidae family can grow up to 18 inches long.

What is the Giant Amazon Leech?

1600

This plant is known as "The Witches Herb" and "The Devil's Nettle."

What is yarrow?

1600

The practice of running an egg over a person's body to determine if they have been affected by the evil eye.

What is oomancy?

2000

The male of this species of spiders force-feeds himself to the female by placing himself on her mandibles.

What is a red widow?

2000

People of this country may not traditionally celebrate Halloween, but they honor the dead through other holidays like the Hungry Ghost Festival.

What is China?

2000

The males of this species were discovered to have switched from a fruit-only diet to human blood.

What is the vampire moth?

2000

Used as "flying ointment" in the Middle Ages, ingesting this plant can be fatal.

What is henbane?

2000

You can leave an offering or place an "X" on this person's tomb to request something.

Who is Marie Laveau?