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<keyword id="600" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="100" keywordseo="Halloween">Halloween</keyword> is one of the hugely popular fests in the <keyword id="6354458" type="COUNTRY" weightage="60" keywordseo="US">US</keyword>. However, off late many Indian party lovers have found another reason to party, that’s Halloween. If you too are gearing up to attend a Halloween bash in your neighbourhood, with your spooky costumes in place, here are a few facts you must know about the spookiest night of the year:<br />
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		<strong>Word ‘Halloween’ finds its roots in Catholicism</strong></li>
</ol> Halloween comes from ‘<keyword id="2575943" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Hallowmas">Hallowmas</keyword>’ – a three day <keyword id="2575944" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Catholic-holiday">Catholic holiday</keyword> when people pray from their recently deceased and the saints are honoured. In the beginning of 11<sup>th</sup> century, the pope decided to observe Hallowmas between October 31- November 2 and called it All Hallow’s Eve, which later on evolved into Hallow’s Even and finally Hallowe’een in the 18<sup>th</sup> century.<br />
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		<strong>Halloween comes from Celtic tradition </strong></li>
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Halloween finds its roots in a Celtic tradition known as Samhain. It is believed that during this time spirits and fairies can enter our world. To keep these spirits happy, Celtic began to offer treats and food to them.<br />
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		<strong>Where did the Jack-O-Lantern come from?</strong></li>
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Ever thought why that humble pumpkin transformed into Jack-o-Lantern? They are named after a farmer called Jack, who always played tricks on the devil. Due of this, the devil made him wander purgatory with just a burning lump of coal as his light. Jack put the coal in a turnip and used it as a lamp. Later on, in the US where turnips were not very popular, people started making Lanterns out of Pumpkins.<br />
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		<strong>Halloween costumes? </strong></li>
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Even the tradition of wearing spooky and scary costumes came from the Celts, who used to wear masks and scary costumes during Samhain to ward off and confuse evil spirits.<br />
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		<strong>Black and Orange</strong></li>
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The black and orange color combination is synonymous with Halloween. Wondering why? Well, orange is often associated with fall harvest and black is the color of darkness and death.<br />
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		<strong>Halloween symbols</strong></li>
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Black cats, spiders and bats are the symbols of Halloween. This is for a reason. All these symbols have association with real life witches. In the middle ages, people believed that cats, spiders and bats were a part of witches’ families, hence brought bad omen.<br />
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		<strong>Spiders are good </strong></li>
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If you happen to spot a spider on Halloween, don’t freak out at the tiny ugly thing. According to legends, spotting a Spider on Halloween means the spirit of a loved one is watching you.<br />
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		<strong>Full moon on Halloween</strong></li>
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Though a full moon is a common sight in horror movies with witches, bats and owls flying across it, but the last full moon on a Halloween night was witnessed in 2011 and the next won’t occur until 2020. Before 2011, full moon on Halloween night was seen way back in 1955.<br />
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		<strong>Trick or Treat</strong></li>
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The tradition of trick and treat goes back to medivial times when poor adults and children went around the town during Hallowmas dressed in costumes begging for food and money.<br />
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		<strong>Halloween is the second most commercial holiday in America</strong></li>
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According to reports, America’s candy industry makes approximately $2 billion every year during Halloween. The citizens the country spend around $6 billion on Halloween annually, on candy, costumes, and decorations, making it the second most commercial holiday after Christmas.<br />
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10 Facts That You Should Know About Halloween

<ul class="summary-list"><li>The remote island of Foula kept an old calendar after the rest of Great Britain modernized.</li><li>Residents celebrate Halloween, Christmas, and New Year's on a 12-day delay from the rest of the world.</li></ul><p>While most of us are in the throes of a Christmas comedown, for a tiny Scottish island called Foula, the holiday is still something to look forward to. </p><p>That's because Foula — home to <a target="_blank" href="https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20211208-foula-britains-most-remote-inhabited-island?">roughly 30 residents</a> — celebrates Christmas 12 days later than the rest of the world, on January 6. The difference stems from the fact that Foula retained the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/manuscriptsandspecialcollections/researchguidance/datingdocuments/juliangregorian.aspx">Julian calendar</a> after the rest of Great Britain adopted the modern Gregorian calendar in 1752.</p><p>"Quite a lot of households here on the island really don't do anything at all on the twenty-fifth of December," resident Ken Gear told Business Insider. "The main game is indeed on the sixth of January."</p><p>Gear noted that residents don't live on a 12-day delay year-round, though they do "celebrate a few occasions by the old calendar." This includes Christmas (or "Yule," as Gear calls it), New Year's Day (or "Newerday," which falls on Jan. 13) and Halloween ("Old Hallowmas.")</p><p>Foula is located roughly 100 miles off the coast of the mainland, and is accessible via ferry. It doesn't have a shop or a pub — though there is one nurse and one teacher on the island, according to <a target="_blank" href="https://www.cntraveler.com/story/the-scottish-island-that-celebrates-christmas-12-days-late">Condé Nast Traveler</a>. The city is also known for its birdwatching tourism.</p><p>More evidence of its deeply-steeped traditions? Foula also happens to be the last place in Great Britain where the ancient Norse language of Norn was spoken.</p><h2>Locals 'go visiting' on Christmas, swigging, singing and dancing into the night</h2><div type="image" title="a field with a house that has a smoking chimney in the background" height="3712" width="5568" msid="106332148" hostid="261" sizebytes="2475590"></div><p>Gear grew up in Foula and says his ancestry on the island dates back hundreds of years — if not more. After working and living abroad, he moved back with his wife and their two kids almost seven years ago. He operates an inn for tourists on the island, and also works as an engineer.</p><p>"I suppose it's that time of year again," he said, when reached by a reporter.</p><p>Gear said that residents tend to spend the holiday together.</p><p>On Christmas, Gear said locals "go visiting" — whereby one resident offers or is chosen to serve as the de facto host. </p><p><span>"There'll be one household that's maybe agreed — or maybe they haven't really agreed — but everyone will eventually gravitate to someone's home."</span></p><p>Everyone then convenes to swig from shared bottles of whisky or port, and enjoys singing and dancing (the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stoXFKCnPv4">Foula Reel</a> is a staple, Gear said) to traditional Shetland fiddle music late into the night, with the festivities wrapping up around 3 am.</p><p>"Santa actually comes to our house twice," Gear said, noting that he distributes presents to his family on both Dec. 25 and Jan. 6. The food is somewhat similar as well — with many families in Foula enjoying turkey or a roast. Growing up in the '70s, Gear remembers "shooting parties" venturing out to hunt birds to be roasted for supper that same night.</p><p>When asked, Gear said locals take some degree of pride in preserving the traditions that distinguish them from much of modern society.</p><p>"We realize it's a bit quaint, but that's all cool," he said.</p>

What Christmas is like on a remote Scottish island where residents celebrate the holiday 12 days after the rest of the world  

<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div>Halloween is the spookiest night of the year, when spirits wander the earth freely and children wander the neighborhood seeking candy and causing havoc.</span></p>
<p>But how much do you <em>really</em> know about Halloween?</p>
<p>We rounded up 13 of the best facts about Halloween, from its history to bizarre laws targeting mischief makers. You might be surprised at what you find.</p>
<h3>1. There's a $1,000 fine for using or selling Silly String in Hollywood on Halloween.</h3>
<p>The prank product has been banned in Hollywood since 2004 after thousands of bored people would buy it on the streets of Hollywood from illegal vendors and "vandalize" the streets. The <a href="http://www.lapdonline.org/october_2004/news_view/20641" target="_blank">city ordinance calls</a> for a maximum $1,000 fine and/or six months in jail for "use, possession, sale or distribution of Silly String in Hollywood from 12:01 AM on October 31 to 12:00 PM on November 1."</p>
<h3>2. Dressing up on Halloween comes from the Celts.</h3>
<p>Celts believed Samhain was a time when the wall between our world and the paranormal world was porous and spirits could get through. Because of this belief, it was common for the <a href="http://www.history.com/topics/halloween" target="_blank">Celts to wear costumes and masks</a> during the festival to ward off or befuddle any evil spirits.</p>
<h3>3. The moniker "Halloween" comes from the Catholics.</h3>
<p>Hallowmas is a three-day Catholic holiday where saints are honored and people pray for the recently deceased. At the start of the 11th century, it was decreed by the pope that it would last from Oct. 31 (All Hallow's Eve) until Nov. 2, most likely because that <a href="http://www.history.com/topics/halloween" target="_blank">was when Samhain was celebrated</a> and the church was trying to convert the pagans.</p>
<p>"All Hallow's Eve" then evolved into "<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/holydays/allsaints_1.shtml">All Hallow's Even</a>," and by the 18th century it was commonly referred to as "<a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/halloween" target="_blank">Hallowe'en</a>."</p>
<h3>4. We should carve turnips, not pumpkins.</h3>
<p>The orig<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">in of Jack-O-Lanterns comes from a Celtic folk tale of a </span><a href="http://www.history.com/topics/jack-olantern-history" target="_blank">stingy farmer named Jack</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> who would constantly play tricks on the devil. The devil responded by forcing him to wander purgatory with only a burning lump of coal from hell. Jack took the coal and made a lantern from a turnip, using it to guide his lost soul.</span></p>
<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_left"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div></p>
<p>The myth was brought over by Irish families fleeing the potato famine in the 1800s, and since turnips were hard to come by in the US, America's pumpkins were used as a substitute to guide lost souls and keep evil spirits like "Jack of the Lantern" away.</p>
<h3>5. Halloween symbols aren't random.</h3>
<p>Black cats, spiders, and bats are all Halloween symbols because of their spooky history and ties to Wiccans. All three were thought to be the familiars of witches in the middle ages, and are often associated with bad luck.</p>
<p>Bats are even further connected to Halloween by the ancient Samhain ritual of building a bonfire, which <a href="http://voices.yahoo.com/symbolism-bats-halloween-other-times-of-4517579.html?cat=37" target="_blank">drove away insects and attracted bats</a>.</p>
<h3>6. Fears of poisoned Halloween candy are unfounded.</h3>
<p>One of parents' biggest fears is that their child's Halloween candy is poisoned or contains razor blades.</p>
<p>In reality, this fear is almost entirely unfounded. There are only two known cases of poisoning, and both involved relatives, according to <a href="http://www.livescience.com/8839-poisoned-halloween-candy-trick-treat-myth.html">LiveScience</a>.<span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> In 1970, a boy died of a heroin overdose. The investigators found it on his candy, but in a twist they later discovered the boy had accidentally consumed some of his uncle's heroin stash, and the family had sprinkled some on the candy to cover up the incident.</span></p>
<p>Even more horrifically, in 1974 Timothy O'Bryan died after eating a Pixy Stix his father had laced with cyanide to collect on the insurance money, <span style="line-height: 1.5em;">according to </span><a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Where-Did-the-Fear-of-Poisoned-Halloween-Candy-Come-From-228023541.html">Smithsonian Magazine</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.</span></p>
<p>And now, parents in Colorado are worried about their children eating <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/colorado-is-warning-parents-about-marijuana-infused-candy-this-halloween-2014-10">candy infused with marijuana</a>. We'll have to wait to see how widespread this problem turns out to be.</p>
<h3>7. Halloween and the candy industry supposedly influenced Daylight Savings Time.</h3>
<p>Candy makers supposedly lobbied to extend daylight savings time into the beginning of November to get an extra hour of daylight so children could collect even more candy (thus forcing people to purchase more sweets to meet the demand).</p>
<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div></p>
<p>They wanted it so badly that during the 1985 hearings on daylight saving time, they put candy pumpkins on the seat of committee members, <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7779869">according to NPR</a>. (The candy industry disputes this account, <a href="http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/31/an-extra-hour-of-daylight-thank-the-candy-lobby/">according to The New York Times</a>.)</p>
<h3>8. Candy Corn was originally known as "chicken feed."</h3>
<p>Invented by George Renninger, a candy maker at the Wunderle Candy Company of Philadelphia in the 1880s, Candy Corn was originally called "butter cream candies" and "chicken feed" since back then, corn was commonly used as food for livestock (they even had a rooster on the candy boxes).</p>
<p>It had no association with Halloween or fall, and was sold seasonally from March to November. After World War II, <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2010/10/where-our-love-hate-relationship-with-candy-corn-comes-from/65428/" target="_blank">advertisers began marketing it as a special Halloween treat</a> due to its colors and ties to the fall harvest.</p>
<h3>9. A full moon on Halloween is extremely rare.</h3>
<p>Though a common trope in horror movies and Halloween decorations with witches flying across the full moon, it's actually extremely uncommon for the monthly event to coincide with October 31, or any other date, for that matter.</p>
<p>The next full moon on Halloween <a href="http://blog.chicagoweathercenter.com/2012/10/22/ask-tom-when-is-the-next-time-there-will-be-a-full-moon-on-halloween/" target="_blank">won't occur until 2020</a>. <span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The most recent Halloween full moon was back in 2001, and before that it was in 1955.</span></p>
<h3>10. Halloween is still the Wiccan New Year.</h3>
<p>Halloween originates from a Celtic tradition called <a href="http://www.history.com/topics/halloween" target="_blank">Samhain</a>, a festival that marked the end of the Celtic calendar year in Ireland, Scotland, and the Isle of Man. They believed it was a time that spirits or fairies could enter our world, and the Celts would put out treats and food to placate the spirits - sometimes, a place at the table was even set for the souls of the dead.</p>
<p><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/WN/real-witches-practice-samhain-wicca-rise-us/story?id=8957950" target="_blank">Wiccans still celebrate Samhain</a> as a New Year celebration today.</p>
<h3>11. Trick-or-treating has been around for a <em>long</em> time.</h3>
<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_left"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div></p>
<p>Versions of trick-or-treating have existed since medieval times. <span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In the past, it was known as "</span><a href="http://www.history.com/topics/history-of-trick-or-treating" target="_blank">guising</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">" where children and poor adults went around in costumes during Hallowmas begging for food and money in exchange for songs or prayers. It was also called "souling."</span></p>
<h3>12. Trick-or-treating as we know it was re-popularized by cartoons.</h3>
<p>Trick-or-treating was brought to America by the Irish and became popular during the early 20th century, but died out during WWII when sugar was rationed. After the rationing ended in 1947, children's magazine "Jack and Jill," radio program "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet," and the "Peanuts" comic strip all helped to <a href="http://www.history.com/topics/history-of-trick-or-treating" target="_blank">re-popularize the tradition</a> of dressing up in costumes and asking for candy from door-to-door.</p>
<p>By 1952, trick-or-treating was hugely popular again.</p>
<h3>13. Halloween is the second-most commercial American holiday of the year.</h3>
<p>The candy industry in America rakes in an average of <a href="http://www.business2community.com/food-recipes/halloween-candy-americans-buy-90-million-pounds-chocolate-halloween-0613778%20" target="_blank">$2 billion annually</a> thanks to Halloween (that's 90 million pounds of chocolate).</p>
<p>Americans spend an estimated <a href="http://www.history.com/topics/history-of-trick-or-treating" target="_blank">$6 billion on Halloween annually</a>, including candy, costumes, and decorations, according to History.com. (The most commercial holiday in the US is obviously Christmas.)</p>

13 Things You Never Knew About Halloween

<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image"><p class="source"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/31112252@N00/">Flickr/Gaudencio Garcinuño</a></p><p class="caption">Time to learn a thing or two about <keyword id="600" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="Halloween">Halloween</keyword>.</p></div><p></p></div>Halloween is the spookiest night of the year, where some people say spirits can wander the earth freely, and others say their children can wander the neighborhood unattended, trick-or-treating or causing havoc.</span></p>
<p>But how much do you <em>really</em> know about Halloween? As Hallow's Eve approaches, learn a little bit more about the holiday. You might be surprised at what you find.</p>
<h3>1. There's a $1,000 fine for using or selling Silly String in Hollywood on Halloween.</h3>
<p>The prank product has been banned in Hollywood since 2004 after thousands of bored people would buy it on the streets of Hollywood from illegal vendors and "vandalize" the streets. The <a href="http://www.lapdonline.org/october_2004/news_view/20641" target="_blank">city ordinance calls</a> for a maximum $1,000 fine and/or six months in jail for "use, possession, sale or distribution of Silly String in Hollywood from 12:01 AM on October 31 to 12:00 PM on November 1."</p>
<h3>2. Dressing up on Halloween comes from the Celts.</h3>
<p>Celts believed Samhain was a time when the wall between our world and the paranormal world was porous and spirits could get through. Because of this belief, it was common for the <a href="http://www.history.com/topics/halloween" target="_blank">Celts to wear costumes and masks</a> during the festival to ward off or befuddle any evil spirits.</p>
<h3>3. The moniker "Halloween" comes from the Catholics.</h3>
<p>Hallowmas is a three-day Catholic holiday where saints are honored and people pray for the recently deceased. At the start of the 11th century, it was decreed by the pope that it would last from Oct. 31 (All Hallow's Eve) until Nov. 2, most likely because that <a href="http://www.history.com/topics/halloween" target="_blank">was when Samhain was celebrated</a> and the church was trying to convert the pagans.</p>
<p>"All Hallow's Eve" then evolved into "<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/holydays/allsaints_1.shtml">All Hallow's Even</a>," and by the 18th century it was commonly referred to as "<a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/halloween" target="_blank">Hallowe'en</a>."</p>
<h3><div class="KonaFilter image-container float_left"><div class="image"><p class="source"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pstainthorp/">Flickr/pstainthorp</a></p><p class="caption">Turnips need carving love too.</p></div><p></p></div>4. We should carve turnips, not pumpkins</h3>
<p>The orig<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">in of Jack-O-Lanterns comes from a Celtic folk tale of a </span><a href="http://www.history.com/topics/jack-olantern-history" target="_blank">stingy farmer named Jack</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> who would constantly play tricks on the devil. The devil responded by forcing him to wander purgatory with only a burning lump of coal from hell. Jack took the coal and made a lantern from a turnip, using it to guide his lost soul.</span></p>
<p>The myth was brought over by Irish families fleeing the potato famine in the 1800s, and since turnips were hard to come by in the U.S., America's pumpkins were used as a substitute to guide lost souls and keep evil spirits like "Jack of the Lantern" away.</p>
<h3>5. Halloween symbols aren't random</h3>
<p>Black cats, spiders, and bats are all Halloween symbols because of their spooky history and ties to Wiccans. All three were thought to be the familiars of witches in the middle ages, and are often associated with bad luck.</p>
<p>Bats are even further connected to Halloween by the ancient Samhain ritual of building a bonfire, which <a href="http://voices.yahoo.com/symbolism-bats-halloween-other-times-of-4517579.html?cat=37" target="_blank">drove away insects and attracted bats</a>.</p>
<h3>6. Fears of poisoned Halloween candy are unfounded</h3>
<p>One of parents' biggest fears is that their child's Halloween candy is poisoned or contains razor blades.</p>
<p>In reality, this fear is almost entirely unfounded. There are only two known cases of poisoning, and both involved relatives, according to <a href="http://www.livescience.com/8839-poisoned-halloween-candy-trick-treat-myth.html">LiveScience</a>.<span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> In 1970, a boy died of a heroin overdose. The investigators found it on his candy, but in a twist they later discovered the boy had accidentally consumed some of his uncle's heroin stash, and the family had sprinkled some on the candy to cover up the incident.</span></p>
<p>Even more horrifically, in 1974 Timothy O'Bryan died after eating a Pixy Stix his father had laced with cyanide to collect on the insurance money,<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">according to </span><a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Where-Did-the-Fear-of-Poisoned-Halloween-Candy-Come-From-228023541.html">Smithsonian Magazine</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.</span></p>
<h3>7. Halloween and the candy industry supposedly influenced Daylight Savings Time</h3>
<p>Candy makers supposedly lobbied to extend daylight savings time into the beginning of November to get an extra hour of daylight so children could collect even more candy (thus forcing people to purchase more candy to meet the demand).</p>
<p>They wanted it so badly that during the 1985 hearings on Daylight Savings they put candy pumpkins on the seat of every senator, <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7779869">according to NPR</a>. (The candy industry disputes this account, <a href="http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/31/an-extra-hour-of-daylight-thank-the-candy-lobby/">according to The New York Times</a>.)</p>
<h3><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image"><p class="source"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/manny/58382926/sizes/o/in/photostream/">By manny on Flickr</a></p><p class="caption">Remember doing this?</p></div><p></p></div></div>8. Candy Corn was originally known as "chicken feed"</h3>
<p>Invented by George Renninger, a candy maker at the Wunderle Candy Company of Philadelphia in the 1880s, Candy Corn was originally called "butter cream candies" and "chicken feed" since back then, corn was commonly used as food for livestock (they even had a rooster on the candy boxes).</p>
<p>It had no association with Halloween or fall, and was sold seasonally from March to November. After World War II, <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2010/10/where-our-love-hate-relationship-with-candy-corn-comes-from/65428/" target="_blank">advertisers began marketing it as a special Halloween treat</a> due to its colors and ties to the fall harvest.</p>
<h3>9. A full moon on Halloween is extremely rare</h3>
<p>Though a common trope in horror movies and Halloween decorations with witches flying across the full moon, the next full moon on Halloween <a href="http://blog.chicagoweathercenter.com/2012/10/22/ask-tom-when-is-the-next-time-there-will-be-a-full-moon-on-halloween/" target="_blank">won't occur until 2020</a>.</p>
<p>The most recent Halloween full moon was back in 2001, and before that it was in 1955.</p>
<h3>10. Halloween is still the Wiccan New Year</h3>
<p>Halloween originates from a Celtic tradition called <a href="http://www.history.com/topics/halloween" target="_blank">Samhain</a>, a festival that marked the end of the Celtic calendar year in Ireland, Scotland, and the Isle of Man. They believed it was a time that spirits or fairies could enter our world, and the Celts would put out treats and food to placate the spirits - sometimes, a place at the table was even set for the souls of the dead.</p>
<p><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/WN/real-witches-practice-samhain-wicca-rise-us/story?id=8957950" target="_blank">Wiccans still celebrate Samhain</a> as a New Year celebration today.</p>
<h3>11. Trick-or-treating has been around for a <em>long</em> time</h3>
<p>Versions of trick-or-treating have existed since medieval times. <span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In the past, it was known as "</span><a href="http://www.history.com/topics/history-of-trick-or-treating" target="_blank">guising</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">" where children and poor adults went around in costumes during Hallowmas begging for food and money in exchange for songs or prayers. It was also called "souling."</span></p>
<h3><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_left"><div><div class="image"><p class="source">Charlie Brown</p><p class="caption">Classic.</p></div><p></p></div></div>12. Trick-or-treating as we know it was re-popularized by cartoons</h3>
<p>Trick-or-treating was brought to America by the Irish and became popular during the early 20th century, but died out during WWII when sugar was rationed. After the rationing ended in 1947, children's magazine "Jack and Jill," radio program "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet," and the "Peanuts" comic strip all helped to <a href="http://www.history.com/topics/history-of-trick-or-treating" target="_blank">re-popularize the tradition</a> of dressing up in costumes and asking for candy from door-to-door.</p>
<p>By 1952, trick-or-treating was hugely popular again.</p>
<h3>13. Halloween is the second-most commercial American holiday of the year</h3>
<p>The candy industry in America rakes in an average of <a href="http://www.business2community.com/food-recipes/halloween-candy-americans-buy-90-million-pounds-chocolate-halloween-0613778%20" target="_blank">$2 billion annually</a> thanks to Halloween (that's 90 million pounds of chocolate).</p>
<p>Americans spend an estimated <a href="http://www.history.com/topics/history-of-trick-or-treating" target="_blank">$6 billion on Halloween annually</a>, including candy, costumes, and decorations, according to History.com. (The most commercial holiday in the U.S. is obviously Christmas.)</p>

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