Halloween Ghost Stories

Story telling sessions at Halloween are a great tradition. Children love to be scared but take care when choosing relevant stories as their imaginations don't need much prompting, especially on this night when spirits are supposed to roam our world!

As well as frightening tales you could also tell strangeness stories. Story sessions allow you to bring a quiet section to your Halloween party. While this is going on preparations for other parts of the party can take place.

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Where can you find scary tales? The internet contains some sites you can find such stories of Halloween horror.

You may have stories of your own - you could embellish personal experiences. Children find it more believable if it is an sense of the narrator. A personal touch is achieved and is more believable.

Don't over do it! You do not want your guests to go home to suffer from nightmares or you will not be beloved among their parents! Now that would be a real scary situation!

There are lots of classic ghost stories out there. Most children won't have come over them yet even though they may be old favorites of yours.

One such tale is 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'. Washington Irving's headless horseman will go down a storm. Another treacherous tale is of the 'Flying Dutchman'. This strange ship brings doom to those who cross its path. Another beloved story is that of Dr Frankenstein's monstrous creation.

Also available is 'A Ghost Story' - Mark Twain. There have been some adaptations suitable for your children's enjoyment. Some population say that 'The Willows' by Algernon Blackwood is one of the best ghost stories ever. 'The Empty House' by the same author is Another classic that might wet their ghastly appetites. Other creepy tales can be obtained on the internet or from the local book store.

Remember you audience will be mainly children. Sure versions will be easier for them to understand so pick accordingly. Short and uncomplicated is a good guideline for kids. If you are provocative adults it is a separate matter. Here, the more eloquent the better.

Alternatively, you could fetch a Cd or Dvd of scary tales to entertain the troops. genuinely bought from local shop or the internet there are some available to buy.

Keep your options open. Of course, Halloween parties need to be provocative with games and dancing, but equally a ghostly tales or two won't go amiss.

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The Halloween Festival - Trick or Treat?

All of us have eagerly waited for Halloween to arrive, in our childhoods, for the candies and chocolates we were supposed to get that day. However, Halloween is not just about the candies and chocolates. Halloween is an every year holiday on the 31st of October and it includes a lot of fun activities like costume parties, trick or treating, carving the jack-o-lanterns, apple bobbing, bonfires, playing pranks, visiting haunted places, telling each other scary stories, watching bad dream films etc. Some folklorists believe that Halloween has its origins in the Roman feast of Pomona or maybe in the festival of the dead which is known as "Parentalia." However, some say it is more typically related to the Celtic festival called as "Samhain". Though, there a lot of alternate stories to the origin of this festival, which is regularly notable to scare people, but are in fact not true.

There are a lot of images and artifacts that have come to be related with the festival of Halloween over the years. The carving of the pumpkins into lanterns is believed to be related with the remembrance of the souls that are held in purgatory. The images of Halloween are sourced from beloved bad dream and Gothic literature like Frankenstein and Dracula and also from bad dream movies like Frankenstein, The Mummy and Dracula. The imagery of Halloween includes a range of themes such as evil, death, the occult and also of mythical monsters. The customary colors of the Halloween festival are black and orange.

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The Halloween festival is specially a fun time for the children. They go from house to house in scary costumes and asking for treats such as candies or sometimes money also by saying 'trick or treat' where trick is just an idle threat to the owner of the home saying that a trick or a prank maybe be performed on the owner or on the homeowner's asset if no treat is given. Halloween costumes ordinarily revolve nearby themes such as supernatural creatures like witches, monsters, ghosts, devils and skeletons, but the selection of costumes extends to consist of any beloved characters from fiction and nonfiction, comic book heroes like ninja, princesses etc. Movie characters are also notable among individuals and some also dress as characters from Harry Potter, Shrek, Twilight series, Justice League, Superman, Batman, Alice in Wonderland, Wizard of Oz, Avatar and anything and all that you want to dress up as.

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Fifty Fun Halloween Facts

1. Halloween is held on October 31st which is the last day of the Celtic calender.
2. The Halloween institution has evolved from the aged Celts confidence that the border in the middle of this world and "the Otherworld" becomes thin on All-Hallows-Eve. Citizen wore costumes to disguise themselves and avoid harm.
3. The day after Halloween is called All Saints Day. Christians dedicate this day to all those saints who don't have a extra day of their own.
4. All hallows is other way to say all saints. All-Hallows-Eve means the night before All-Saints Day.
5. The first evidence of the use of the word Halloween comes from Scotland in the early 16th century. It was slang for All-Hallows-Eve.
6. The colours orange and black laid out Halloween because orange is the colour of pumpkins (and autumn) and black is related with death.
7. The tradition of carving a jack o' lantern started in the United Kingdom. They were carved on All Hallows Eve and left on the door step to ward off evil spirits.
8. The primary jack o' lanterns were carved from a swede or a turnip.
9. Jack o' lanterns were named after the phenomenon of strange light flickering over peat bogs.
10. Carving gourds into elaborately decorated lanterns dates back thousands of years to Africa. They were intentionally brought to the New World via prehistoric migration straight through Asia.
11. A record for the most simultaneously lit jack o' lanterns was set on October 21, 2006 when 30,128 jack-o'-lanterns were simultaneously lit on Boston Common.
12. The world's largest jack o' lantern was carved from the world's largest pumpkin (at the time) on October 31, 2005 in Northern Cambria, Pennsylvania, United States by Scott Cully. The pumpkin weighed 1,469 lb (666.33 kg),
13. Today the record for the world's largest pumpkin is held by Nick and Kristy Harp whose pumpkin weighed in at 1,725 lbs (782.45 kg).
14. Trick-or-treating is the Halloween institution where children dressed in costume go door to door asking for candy with the question, "trick or treat?" The "trick" is a (usually idle) threat to achieve mischief on the home-owners or their property if no treat is given.
15. Many Citizen believe, trick or treating evolved from the Middle Ages institution of giving freshly baked soul cakes to children who went door to door on All-Hallows-Eve gift prayers.
16. It was believed that each soul cake eaten represented a soul being freed from purgatory.
17. In Sweden, children dress up as witches and go trick-or-treating on Maundy Thursday (the Thursday before Easter).
18. In Northern Germany, Norway and Southern Denmark children dress up in costumes and go trick-or-treating on New Year's Eve in a tradition called"Rummelpott".
19. In Scotland, children are only supposed to receive treats if they achieve tricks for the households they go to. This commonly takes the form of singing a song or reciting a funny poem.
20. For a estimate of years (in the late 19th century and early 20th century) Halloween in the U.S became synonymous with vandalism.
21. In 1912, Boy Scout clubs and other society organisations came together to encourage a safe Halloween celebration. School posters at this time called for a "Sane Halloween".
22. In an effort to prevent damage to their properties, householders began to offer children treats if they promised not to play "tricks".
23. By the end of the 1930's trick or treating had become widespread.
24. Investigate done by the U.S National Confectioners relationship in 2005 revealed that 80% of adults and 93% of children went trick or treating on Halloween.
25. The first screen depiction of Trick or Treating was in Disney's cartoon, "Trick or Treating". In this cartoon Huey, Duey and Louie try to trick their Uncle, Donald Duck into giving them candy.
26. In 1964 a New York housewife vexed by Halloween started giving out packages of inedible objects to children whom she believed were too old to be trick-or-treating. The packages contained items such as steel wool, dog biscuits and ant buttons (which were clearly labelled with the word "poison"). Though nobody was injured, she was prosecuted and pleaded guilty to endangering children.
27. In 1970, the New York Times published an record that claimed that "those Halloween goodies that children gather this weekend on their rounds of 'trick or treating' may bring them more nightmare than happiness". It provided examples of inherent tamperings. The examples were speculative but led to a ground swell of fear.
28. By the 1980s, Us and Canadian parents fear that trick or treating children could eat compromised candy reached a peak. In 1985, an Abc News/Washington Post poll that found 60% of parents feared that their children would be injured or killed because of Halloween candy sabotage.
29. Apart from one incident-actually an act of premeditated murder by a trick-or-treater's father-there have been no recorded incidents of malicious and deliberate tampering of candy during Halloween.
30. In 1970, a 5-year-old boy from the Detroit area found and ate heroin his uncle had stashed. The boy died following a four day coma. The family attempted to protect the uncle by claiming the drug had been sprinkled in the child's Halloween candy.
31. In 2008, candy was found with metal shavings and metal blades embedded in it. The candy was Pokemon Valentine's Day lollipops purchased from a Dollar normal store in Polk County, Florida. The candy was considered to have been artificial in China with faulty equipment.
32. In the U.S, Halloween accounts for 25% of the year's candy sales.
33. In the U.S, nearly billion is spent each year on Halloween candy.
34. Candy corn is the most popular Halloween candy.
35. Candy corn was created by the U.S Wunderlee Candy business in the 1880's.
36. Snickers bars are the most popular candy bar sold on Halloween.
37. Snickers bars were created in 1930 by the Mars family. They named it after their family horse.
38. Investigate conducted by the U.S National retail Federation found that in 2005 - 53% of Americans bought a Halloween costume, spending an average of .
39. The first mass produced Halloween costumes appeared in the 1930's in the U.S.
40. Originally Halloween costumes were scary characters like vampires, ghosts, skeletons, witches and devils.
41. Today, Halloween costumes are often inspired by science fiction, television, cinema, cartoons and pop culture.
42. According to the U.S National retail Federation the most popular Halloween costume themes for adults are, in order: witch, pirate, vampire, cat, and clown.
43. In 2009, the most popular Halloween character for Adults and Children was Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson died on June 25, 2009.
44. In 1966, The Tv series Batman was so popular, a fabric business issued patterns for costumes.
45. Apple bobbing is a primary Halloween game. The game is played by filling a tub or a large basin with water and putting apples in the water. Because apples are less dense than water, they will float. Players then try to catch one with their teeth.
46. Apple bobbing is becoming less popular, maybe because more and more Citizen regard it as unsanitary.
47. Girls who place the apple they bobbed under their pillows are said to dream of their hereafter lover.
48. On 19 February, 2008, New Yorker, Ashrita Furman, bobbed 33 apples in one petite to produce a world record.
49. Agatha Christie's mystery novel, "Hallowe'en Party" is about a girl who is drowned in an apple-bobbing tub.
50. New York City hosts the United States' largest Halloween celebration, known as The community Halloween Parade. The evening parade attracts over two million spectators and participants.

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Fifty Fun Halloween Facts