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I get about 300 kids every Halloween and have decided to buy just one type of candy. Last year I had several types and let the kids choose, but some of them got greedy and wanted one of everything so I am limiting selection to just one type. What would be your favorite treat if you could only choose one?

Something chocolate is always a hit for me. Reeses would be my first choice.

I’m working on halloween invitations and announcements cards, and I’ll like to put babies halloween pictures, I searched on flickr and deviantart, but i think that i need a permission to use their pics
is there any website where can I get babies Halloween pics?

Thanks!

Party City website.

My mum won’t let me go trick or treating tonight because she thinks that Halloween is evil.
Is it?

It is true that Halloween is largely a recycled pagan celebration (I don’t see any reason to hide it)—just look up “Halloween” in any Encyclopedia.

For instance, the Encarta Encyclopedia says: “Many of the ancient peoples of Europe marked the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter by celebrating a holiday in late autumn. The most important of these holidays to influence later Halloween customs was Samhain [actually pronounced more like sah-win or sah-veen; it means “Summer’s end”] a holiday observed by the ancient Celts, a tribal people who inhabited most of Western and Central Europe in the first millennium BC . . . Samhain began at sundown on October 31 and extended into the following day. According to the Celtic pagan religion, known as Druidism, the spirits of those who had died in the preceding year roamed the earth on Samhain evening. The Celts sought to ward off these spirits with offerings of food and drink. The Celts also built bonfires at sacred hilltop sites and performed rituals, often involving human and animal sacrifices, to honor Druid deities.”

And so, we find that the ancient Celtic culture believed that on the evening of October 31, the barriers between the human and supernatural realms were weakened, and it was thought to be the most favorable time for divinations and fortune telling (for the Druids to make predictions about the future). I read that during the celebration, they wore costumes, typically consisting of animal heads and skins, and this seems to be where the tradition of dressing up for Halloween came from.

Well, I like history, so let me just give you a bit more. By A.D. 43, the Romans had conquered the majority of Celtic territory. The Romans then blended local Samhain customs with their own pagan harvest festival honoring Pomona, goddess of fruit trees. Some scholars have suggested that the game of bobbing for apples derives from this. Some believe bobbing for apples was originally a form of divination (fortune telling) to learn of future marriages—the first person to bite an apple was predicted to be the first to marry in the coming year. And there are other ideas about bobbing for apples regarding its pagan origin.

And then the Catholic church got a hold of the holiday. As the Encarta Encyclopedia further says: “The Roman Catholic Church often incorporated modified versions of older religious traditions in order to win converts. For example, Pope Gregory IV sought to replace Samhain with All Saints’ Day in 835. All Souls’ Day, closer in spirit to Samhain and modern Halloween, was first instituted at a French monastery in 998 and quickly spread throughout Europe.”

And so, in an attempt to Christianize this pagan event with a church-sanctioned holiday, they moved the old Christian feast of All Saints’ Day (a day commemorating all the “saints” of the church) from May 13 to November 1. And November 2 was later made All Soul’s Day (a day to commemorate all the departed who are thought to be in purgatory). And so October 31 was set aside as a holy evening, known as All Hallows Eve (“hallows” speaking of the holy ones or saints—the evening before All Saints’ Day), which then became “Halloween.” And churches began staging pageants in which people dressed up as saints or demons—which seems to have added to the dressing up tradition.

Trick-or-treating most likely dates back to early All Souls’ Day parades in England. During the festivities, poor people would beg for food. Families would then give them pastries called “soul cakes” in return for their promise to pray for the family’s dead relatives. Children eventually took on this tradition, known as “going-a-souling” or “souling” and they would visit houses in their neighborhood for drinks, food, and money (a practice mentioned in Shakespear’s writings).

OK, what about jack o’ lanterns? Well, people have been making jack o’ lanterns at Halloween for centuries. The practice originated from an Irish folktale about a man nicknamed “Stingy Jack.” He was not allowed into either heaven or hell because of his trickery. So, according to the story, the devil gave Jack a glowing piece of coal placed inside a hollowed-out turnip to light his way at night as he roamed the face of the earth. He was later called “Jack of the Lantern” which was shortened to “Jack o’ Lantern.” So, in Ireland and Scotland, people began to make their own versions of Jack’s lanterns by carving scary faces into large turnips and placing them in windows or near doors to frighten away Stingy Jack and other wandering evil spirits. Immigrants from these countries brought the jack o’lantern tradition with them when they came to the United States, and they soon found that pumpkins made much better jack o’lanterns than large turnips.

It was pretty much rejected at first, but the holiday had a rebirth in America between the late 19th and early 20th centuries because of the influx of Irish immigrants (many fleeing Ireland’s potato famine) who came over and helped popularize Halloween traditions. They brought with them traditions that combined features of the Celtic and Christian holidays. But as belief in many of the old superstitions waned during the late 19th century, Halloween was increasingly regarded as a children’s holiday.

On Halloween my friends and I are goin to do some pranks, we already have a few but we need more. The ones we have now is: Peanut butter under the handles of car door, ding- dong ditch, and drawing penises on driveways!

Just go ring doorbells and run! Soap windows. I know this is stuff from back in the day. LOL!

Halloween (John Carpenter 1978) Trailer

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How do I make my halloween costume more weather friendly?
Im going as a Goth Cheerleader Im planning on wearing thing short black skort with a black tank top and a black long sleeve t-shirt over it. Also im gonna wear black tights. What can i add to the costume to keep me warm enough. the news said its gonna be like 58 degrees around here on halloween

How can i make my costume more weather appropriate?

Wear some long johns underneath. Nobody will be able to see them. They’re also part wool which will help keep you warm. You’ve also go the advantage because black is the color with the lowest albedo. Therefore, it will absorb more heat.

For Halloween I’m going to be Harley Quinn and I bought yellow hair spray from Spirit Halloween since I couldn’t find the right wigs/any affordable ones. I tried it on my hair, which is dark brown, but it showed up more green than yellow and faded out in 5-10 minutes. My friend says there’s a way to make it last, but she can’t remember.

Does anyone have any tips to make it show up more vibrant/last longer?

The only thing i can think of is put loads of it in you hair…sorry i wasnt much help…

P.S. why do you even need yellow hairspray for Harley Quinn?

Im planning a halloween party and i wanted new halloween songs that are known do you know any please help????

Twilight Soundtrack?

Well, you can check it here

http://astore.amazon.com/halloween13-20?node=118&page=1

I am 12 and i LOVE halloween. i like to do things scary. do not underestimate me, i did the halloween decoration last year, and we got a lot of complements!! i need some SCARY ideas and tips and special effects ideas and tips. please help.

Well I love all things horror as well. And I do all the decorating on a budget. Things I love to make are ghost-wooden stakes with pumpkin heads put sheets on them and tie them, together or seperate. I also use the tall wooden stakes and put fake heads or skulls on them…bloodied up of course.

Lots of eerie lighting, black lights, green…spooky and dark.

I’m made a witch 7ft tall with pvc pipe…on a stand with a weighted bottom and wrapped chicken wire around the body and dressed it up, got a scary witch mask and gloves…very cool. Put a cauldron in front of her too.

I think homemade dummies are the best. I’ve made a Michael Myers in my front window looking out from a wooden T with stand, out of 2x4s and put a blue mechanic coveralls on him and a mask, knife, and put a strobe light facing him…very cool.

Also made a mad scientist and lab…fake body parts…glow in the dark stuff with paint…vases full of scary stuff and put a black light on it all.

I’ve also made a scarecrow standing on a huge pvc pipe, spraypainted and stuck in the ground.

My husband made me a coffin for the front yard out of wood and I painted it and stuck a dummie inside.

Tombstones out of foam, painted and stuck in the ground with metal stakes.

Hope that gives ya some ideas….have fun!

The REAL trailer for Rob Zombie’s Halloween that was released today (April 6th)

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