Halloween History
and Traditions
and Traditions
Halloween originated in this small island country in Western Europe.
What is Ireland?
This color of cat is famously tied to bad luck and superstitions.
What is a black cat?
Transylvania is the home of this famous vampire, written about by Bram Stoker.
Who is Count Dracula?
This peanut butter and chocolate treat is the most popular Halloween candy in the United States.
What are Reese's peanut butter cups?
These two colors are associated with Halloween, with one representing the harvest and the other representing death.
What are orange and black?
This type of root vegetable was originally used by the Irish to create Jack-O'-Lanterns.
What is a turnip?
It is said that this spooky creature cannot see its own reflection.
What is a vampire?
This young doctor, written about by Mary Shelley, creates a sapient creature from different body parts in an unorthodox scientific experiment.
Who is Dr. Frankenstein?
This tricolor mallow candy was originally called "chicken feed."
This large orange "vegetable" is actually classified as a fruit.
Halloween is a shortened version of this holiday name, the day before All Saints' Day
This is the name for a group of witches.
What is a coven?
This friendly ghost is personable and keen to socialize with living beings, much to the chagrin of his three wicked uncles, the Ghostly Trio.
Who is Casper the Friendly Ghost?
This company, headquarted in Pennsylvania, sells the most Halloween candy of any company.
What is Hershey's?
Forty-one percent of Americans believe in these spirits or souls of the dead that are thought to appear to the living, often as a pale or transparent shape.
What is Christmas?
This hairy monster is associated with the full moon.
What is a werewolf?
Best known from Ancient Egypt, this human body wrapped in bandages has become a popular "monster" in the horror genre.
What is a mummy?
This lollipop, with a chewy chocolate center, is famous for the question “How many licks does it take to get to the center?”
This common seasoning is thought to be able to ward off evil spirits.
What is salt?
Fortune-telling was the original reason for this fruit-bobbing game, often played during Halloween parties.
What is bobbing for apples?
This nocturnal mammal, often associated with Halloween and vampires, is the only mammal that can truly fly.
What is a bat?
This eccentric family, headed by Morticia and Gomez, are "creepy and they're kooky, mysterious and spooky," as stated in the theme song of their 1960s television show.
Who are the Addams Family?
Along with the Milky Way bar, this candy bar consisting of a soft nougat base topped with a layer of caramel and crunchy roasted peanuts, all coated in milk chocolate, was the first candy to be made "fun sized."
Samhainophobia (pronounced "sow-ain-o-phobia") is the fear of this holiday.
What is Halloween?