Halloween
Widely grown for commercial use and as food, aesthetics, and recreational purposes, it is native to North America and one of the oldest domesticated plants, having been used as early as 7,000 to 5,500 BC.
What is a Pumpkin?
At one time, these treats, covered in a sugar candy coating, with a stick inserted as a handle, were commonly given to trick-or-treating children, but the practice rapidly waned in the wake of widespread rumors that some individuals were embedding items like pins and razor blades in them in the United States.
What are candy apples?
This tradition can trace its roots back to the ancient Celtic end-of-harvest festival of Samhain. During Samhain, people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off evil spirits.
What is Halloween?
This classic 1978 horror film was actually filmed on such a tight budget that, the crew used the cheapest mask for Michael Myers's iconic pale-faced mask: a $2 Star Trek Captain James Kirk mask. They spray painted it white and reshaped the eye holes, making William Shatner look incredibly creepy.
What is Halloween?
This animal was believed to protect witches' powers from negative forces.
What is a black cat?
This fund-raising program for children started on Halloween 1950[1] as a local event in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, the program historically involves the distribution of small orange boxes by schools to trick-or-treaters, in which they can solicit small change donations from the houses they visit.
What is Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF ?
According to Forbes, these are America’s favorite Halloween candy for 2021.
What are Reese’s Cups?
In Ireland and Scotland, this root vegetable has traditionally been carved during Halloween, but immigrants to North America used the native pumpkin, which is both much softer and much larger – making it easier to carve than a turnip.
What is a turnip?
The 1993 American fantasy comedy film[ follows a villainous comedic trio of witches (Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy) who are inadvertently resurrected by a teenage boy (Omri Katz) in Salem, Massachusetts, on Halloween night.
What is Hocus Pocus?
In Medieval Europe, this type bird was thought to be a witch and its call meant someone was about to die.
What is an owl?
Some believe that sprinkling this compound on your doorstep will keep spirits out of your home on Halloween.
What is salt?
This candy, originally named "Chicken Feed", is a type of small, pentahedral, pyramid-shaped candy, typically divided into three sections of different colors, with a waxy texture and a flavor based on honey, sugar, butter, and vanilla.
What is candy corn?
The original Aztec celebration actually lasted a month long, but when Spanish conquistadors came over to Mexico in the 16th century, they merged the festival with the Catholic All Saints' Day. Today's celebration is a mix of both Aztec rituals of skulls, altars to the dead and food with Catholic masses and prayers.
What is Day of the Dead?
This fictional character first appeared as the spirit of a serial killer who uses a gloved hand with razors to kill his victims in their dreams, causing their deaths in the real world as well. In the dream world, he is a powerful force and almost completely invulnerable.
Who is Freddy Krueger?
According to a 2018 report from the National Retail Federation, 30 million Americans spent an estimated $480 million on Halloween costumes for this specific type of costume.
What are pet costumes?
The name of this yearly Halloween tradition is tied to the Irish legend of Stingy Jack, a drunkard who bargains with Satan and is doomed to roam the Earth with only a hollowed turnip to light his way.
What is a Jack o'lantern?
Some organizations around the United States and Canada sponsor a this event on Halloween night (or on occasion, a day immediately preceding Halloween or a few days from it on a weekend, depending on what is convenient), where trick-or-treating is done from parked car to parked car in a local parking lot, often at a school or church.
What is "trunk-or-treat" ?
This famous magician died on Halloween in 1926.
Who is Harry Houdini?
This 1993 American stop-motion animated musical dark fantasy holiday film directed by Henry Selick (in his feature directorial debut) and produced and conceived by Tim Burton, tells the story of Jack Skellington, the King of "Halloween Town" who stumbles upon "Christmas Town" and becomes obsessed with celebrating the holiday.
What is The Nightmare Before Christmas?
Term used to designate a male witch.
What is a Warlock?
In Scotland and Ireland, this tradition – children going from door to door in disguise – is traditional, and a gift in the form of food, coins or "apples or nuts for the Halloween party" (in more recent times chocolate) is given out to the children.
What is "Guising"?
This was the first wrapped penny candy in America.
What is a Tootsie Roll?
This Christian belief and practice is thought be a root of Halloween, being the evening before the Christian holy days of All Hallows' Day on November 1st and All Souls' Day on November 2nd.
What is All Hallows' Eve?
It is a 1922 silent German Expressionist horror film directed by F. W. Murnau and starring Max Schreck as Count Orlok, a vampire with an interest in both a new residence and the wife (Greta Schröder) of his estate agent (Gustav von Wangenheim).
What is Nosferatu?
This city holds the world's largest Halloween parade and America's only major nighttime parade, attracting more than 60,000 costumed participants, two million spectators, and a worldwide television audience.
What is the New York's Village Halloween Parade?