Designing your own Halloween costume can be easier than you might think. All it takes is a little time and some imagination. Start by deciding exactly what you would like to be for Halloween. Once you have made this decision your next step would be to collect the necessary materials to design the perfect [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Halloween History’
September 30, 2006
Woman seduces her husband at Halloween party, then finds out he switched costumes with someone else.
No matter how many times this one is passed off as a recent tale, nothing will change the fact that this joke-cum-legend is at least 40 years old. A 1965 joke book included a version involving a headachy wife who slips out of a costume party, switches outfits at home, then returns [...]
September 29, 2006
“Halloween and Pets”
Halloween is a festival many of our pets could do without. Our dogs and cats don’t appreciate the symbolism and revelry of All Hallow’s Eve; to most of them the evening is a frightening collage of trick-or-treaters and party-goers who noisily shuffle from house to house, pound on doors, and engage in [...]
September 29, 2006
The Jack O’Lantern is the symbol of Halloween.
The Jack O’Lantern is the symbol of Halloween. (BBC News)
Irish immigrants took tradition of Jack O’Lantern to America
It was said that if a demon were to encounter something as fiendish looking as themselves, they would run away in terror.
In Ireland – the tradition was to carve out turnips, [...]
