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Halloween
Halloween is a holiday celebrated on October 31. It has roots in the Celtic festival of Samhain and the Christian holy day of All Saints. Ask any questions associated with Halloween such as jack-o'-lanterns, trick-or-treating, ghosts, bonfires, costumes, haunted houses, reading scary stories, and watching horror movies, to name a few.
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There is a Halloween 3 (its full title is Halloween 3: Season of the Witch). The movie was released in 1982.
What glue could you apply to your fake nail fangs for halloween?
i woulnt sugeest to use fake nail glue because it might harm your teeth and it aint very healthy so you might damage your gums and your teeth
What is the Halloween meaning of wolves?
Halloween is a very old celebration that has acquired modern customs, at least in the U.S. The modern customs have to do with almost anything that is scary, from witches to spiders to skeletons. Wolves can be scary, and wolfmen (lycanthropes) can be scary also. But they don't have any meaning. Also, it's just fun to scare people, that's their main reason to wear wolf, or scary costumes.
When were pumpkins first used as jack-o'-lanterns in the US?
The Irish carried the Hallow's Eve tradition with them. They would originally carve out squash-like vegetables and make lanterns out of them. The only squash-like ones they had in America were pumpkins. A native (of America) saw them and called it a Jack O' Lantern. Then it stuck.
Where did Jack-o-lanterns originate?
- It originated with the Irish and a fellow named "Stingy Jack." According to the story, Stingy Jack invited the Devil to have a drink with him. True to his name, Stingy Jack didn't want to pay for his drink, so he convinced the Devil to turn himself into a coin that Jack could use to buy their drinks. Once the Devil did so, Jack decided to keep the money and put it into his pocket next to a silver cross, which prevented the Devil from changing back into his original form. Jack eventually freed the Devil, under the condition that he would not bother Jack for one year and that, should Jack die, he would not claim his soul. The next year, Jack again tricked the Devil into climbing into a tree to pick a piece of fruit. While he was up in the tree, Jack carved a sign of the cross into the tree's bark so that the Devil could not come down until the Devil promised Jack not to bother him for ten more years. Soon after, Jack died. As the legend goes, God would not allow such an unsavory figure into heaven. The Devil, upset by the trick Jack had played on him and keeping his word not to claim his soul, would not allow Jack into hell. He sent Jack off into the dark night with only a burning coal to light his way. Jack put the coal into a carved-out turnip and has been roaming the Earth with ever since. The Irish began to refer to this ghostly figure as "Jack of the Lantern," and then, simply "Jack O'Lantern." In Ireland and Scotland, people began to make their own versions of Jack's lanterns by carving scary faces into turnips or potatoes and placing them into windows or near doors to frighten away Stingy Jack and other wandering evil spirits. In England, large beets are used. Immigrants from these countries brought the jack o'lantern tradition with them when they came to the United States. They soon found that pumpkins, a fruit native to America, make perfect jack o'lanterns.
- Another user said: "Jack, the Irish say, grew up in a simple village where he earned a reputation for cleverness as well as lazinessHe applied his fine intelligence to wiggling out of any work that was asked of him, preferring to lie under a solitary oak endlessly whittling. In order to earn money to spend at the local pub, he looked for an "easy shilling" from gambling, a pastime at which he excelled. In his whole life he never made a single enemy, never made a single friend and never performed a selfless act for anyone. One Halloween, as it happened, the time came for him to die. When the devil arrived to take his soul, Jack was lazily drinking at the pub and asked permission to finish his ale. The devil agreed, and Jack thought fast. "If you really have any power," he said slyly, "you could transform yourself into a shilling." The devil snorted at such child's play and instantly changed himself into a shilling. Jack grabbed the coin. He held it tight in his hand, which bore a cross-shaped scar. The power of the cross kept the devil imprisoned there, for everyone knows the devil is powerless when faced with the cross. Jack would not let the devil free until he granted him another year of life. Jack figured that would be plenty of time to repent. The devil left Jack at the pub. The year rolled around to the next Halloween, but Jack never got around to repenting. Again the devil appeared to claim his soul, and again Jack bargained, this time challenging him to a game of dice, an offer Satan could never resist, but a game that Jack excelled at. The devil threw snake eyes-two ones-and was about to haul him off, but Jack used a pair of dice he himself had whittled. When they landed as two threes, forming the T-shape of a cross, once again the devil was powerless. Jack bargained for more time to repent. He kept thinking he'd get around to repentance later, at the last possible minute. But the agreed-upon day arrived and death took him by surprise. The devil hadn't showed up and Jack soon found out why not. Before he knew it Jack was in front of the pearly gates. St. Peter shook his head sadly and could not admit him, because in his whole life Jack had never performed a single selfless act. Then Jack presented himself before the gates of hell, but the devil was still seething. Satan refused to have anything to do with him. "Where can I go?" cried Jack. "How can I see in the darkness?" The devil tossed a burning coal into a hollow pumpkin and ordered him to wander forever with only the pumpkin to light his path. From that day to this he has been called "Jack o' the Lantern." Sometimes he appears on Halloween! "
- In England, and Ireland a long long time ago like in the 17, to 1800's celtic's use to carve turnips when they immigrated to the U.S the started to use pumpkins because they are bigger and more plentiful
- It began in Ireland where there was a folk tale about a bad little boy who played a trick on the devil so he was made to wonder the earth and carry a lantern lit by a lump of coal. In the original story he had a turnip he carried, but when the Irish came to the colonies they couldn't find turnips to use so they began to use pumpkins a plant native to the North America.
Jack o' lantern comes from an old Irish folktale about Stingy Jack who had a plan to outwit the devil. He somehow talked the devil into climbing up an apple tree and once he got to the top, Jack laid crosses all over the ground beneath so the devil couldn't come down. In the end, Jack agreed to let the devil go as long as he promised to never take Jack's soul. The problem was Jack had been too wicked to get into heaven and now he was barred from hell. On asking the devil where he would go without any light, Satan threw him a glowing ember from hell that would never burn out. Jack carved out a turnip and put the ember inside as a lantern. He supposedly will wander for eternity with his lantern, trapped on earth.
Lanterns, lights, and jack-o'-lanterns are a big Halloween tradition. They came from the legends and stories of floating lights and other stories for lighting the way. Another reason was to let children know it was okay to come to their door for trick-or-treating. If the lantern was lit then it was okay but if there was no lantern then the house was either out of candy or not participating. These days people signal this with porch lights and lanterns are mere decorations.
Halloween is the second most commercially successful holiday in number one?
Halloween is the second most commercially successful holiday, with retail sales around $2.5 billion dollars per year. However, Christmas is much busier, generating quite a bit more money in retail.
What age should kids stop trick or treat?
Children say their to old to Trick or Treat at age 12.But in my opinion
you should stop at the age of 15 or 16 because around that age is when
you start going to parties and haunted houses.
What was the original story of jack o lantern?
People in ancient Ireland used to put out turnips (they didn't have pumpkins) carved with human faces, in the belief that there was a man named Jack who was not allowed to enter Heaven and had to roam Earth forever. The turnips were to give him light on his journey. Then when the Irish came to the US, they found that pumpkins were much easier to carve than turnips, so they continued their tradition, but with pumpkins instead of turnips. Eventually the tradition spread all over the US.
Stingy Jack Folktale
An old Irish folktale tells the story of Stingy Jack(known as Jack the Smith in some variations), who was a lazy yet shrewd farmer. In all the variations, Jack is used as a character who traps the Devil with a cross. The way with which he does this varies from version-to-version. In any case, Jack forces the Devil to agree to never take his soul in return for his release.
Later, because of Jack's hectic lifestyle of thievery and drinking, he eventually falls victim to his own habits and dies. Jack is denied entrance through the gates of Saint Peter into Heaven due to his sinful life. As a result, Jack travels to the gates of Hell and begs the Devil to allow him to rest his soul there. In keeping the agreement he made with Jack earlier, the Devil cannot take his soul and refuses him entrance into Hell.
Mockingly, the Devil gives Jack an ember of Hell that never burns out and forces him to forever wander in the netherworld searching for a place to rest his soul. As a warning to others, Jack places the ember inside a carved turnip to light his way, forever known as Jack of the Lantern.
As time passed, the legend became more and more variated. The original carved turnip was turned into a carved pumpkin and "Jack of the Lantern" was changed to Jack o' the lantern, which was eventually turned into jack-o'-lantern.
How long will a jack-o'-lantern take to rot?
Within about 4 days being carved, pumpkins show signs of mold and collapse. So you should carve yours no sooner than 2 or 3 days before Halloween. Within 7 days, it will turn gooey and leak out the remaining fluids. Carved jack-o-lanterns should be disposed of within a week of creation unless they are in a very cold outdoor environment, and even then will rot within 2 or 3 weeks at the longest.
You can slow the process down with the use of something to seal the cut edges, vaseline and vegetable oil are good, but be careful as both are flammable.
People who died on October 24 include:
- Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1601)
- Italian composer Scarlatti (1725)
- American civil rights activist Rosa Parks (2005)
Has it ever rained on Halloween?
Halloween in Eastern to Middle US States is expected to be rainy, cold, and snow in some areas, due to the combination of rain from Hurricane Sandy (which will reach Ohio) and cold Fall-Winter temperatures in these States.
What were the most popular costumes for Halloween in 2011?
most people were wearing mask and the most popular thing was a princess
Who were first people to celebrate Halloween?
Halloween is a corruption of Hallowed Eve, which occurs the evening before the Christian holiday, All Saint's Day. However, some of the traditions of Halloween pre-date Christianity and were added to Halloween.
Where did the first official citywide Halloween celebration take place in US?
Halloween did not catch on in the United States until cities were developing which brought people living closer together. The first citywide celebration of Halloween was in 1921 in Anoka, Minnesota.
Is Halloween celebrated all over the world?
Halloween is celebrated in most of the countries of the world.
What nationality started trick or treating?
From History.com...
New immigrants, especially the millions of Irish fleeing Ireland's potato famine of 1846, helped to popularize the celebration of Halloween nationally. Taking from Irish and English traditions, Americans began to dress up in costumes and go house to house asking for food or money, a practice that eventually became today's "trick-or-treat" tradition. Young women believed that, on Halloween, they could divine the name or appearance of their future husband by doing tricks with yarn, apple parings, or mirrors.
What costume goes with a witch costume?
I found a very cool website at the related link. They sell all kinds of costume accessories. You can search what you want and design the witch costume, and also, this website can stimulate your imagination. Good luck!
What do kids dislike the most in their treat bags?
From experience, I know that children do not like having pretzels in their bags.
