Cann wishes you and your family an exciting and fun Halloween!
All Hallows Eve (Halloween) is a holiday celebrated on the night of October 31st. Traditional activities include trick-or-treating, Halloween festivals, bonfires, costume parties, haunted houses, and scary movies!
Halloween originated from a Pagan festival celebrated among the Celts of Ireland and Great Britain to indicate the end of the harvest season.
Nowadays, the mention of Halloween is more associated children (and adults) getting dressed up in costumes. While it has always been a popular holiday inUnited States, Ireland, Scotland and Canada, it is now starting to be celebrated in many other countries around the world.
There are many colors and symbols that are associated with Halloween. While black and orange are the traditional colors of Halloween, other colors are also now popular. Some of the more popular ones are:
- Black = death, night, witches, black cats, bats, vampires
- Orange = pumpkins, jack o’lanterns, Autumn, the turning leaves, fire
- Purple = night, the supernatural, mysticism
- Green = goblins, monsters, zombies, aliens
- White = ghosts, mummies, a full moon
- Red = blood, fire, demons
Take a look at some of the popular Halloween superstitions given below. Some of these have been around for many years! They are good for a few laughs!
A burning candle inside a jack-o-lantern on Halloween keeps evil spirits and demons at bay.
If a candle suddenly goes out by itself on Halloween, as though by breath or wind, it is believed that a ghost has come to call.
According to an old English folk belief, you will invite bad luck into your home if you allow a fire to burnout on Halloween. To remedy the situation, the fire must be rekindled by a lighted sod brought from the home of a priest.
Knocking on wood keeps bad luck away.
When bobbing for apples, it is believed that the first person to bite an apple would be the first to marry.
In North America, it’s bad luck if a black cat crosses your path and good luck if a white cat crosses your path. In Britain, Ireland, and Japan it’s exactly the opposite!
Clay….I hope that you and your family and friends have a wonderful Halloween Celebration!
Kids, candy, masks, and tummy aches are all a memory forever!
What are you doing tonight to celebrate Halloween?
Happy Halloween everyone. I love handing out candy to all the trick or treaters so that’s what we always do. Have fun and be safe! 🙂
Happy Halloween to you, too, Musicfan – and to all that visit here! I love Halloween Clay and also
wish Clay and family a happy and exciting Halloween! We were to have Trick n Treat tonight but
it was changed to Sunday night because of all of the bad weather that we had here in N. central
Ohio. Things should be better by then. I will be passing out candy to all of the little ones and
probably some not so little!!!! 🙂
We'll be taking the 2 grandkids to our old neighborhood once again. My kids grew up there too so we still know some of the neighbors. It has sidewalks and everything! People actually drop their kids off from other areas. My neighborhood doesn't celebrate. Not very many children. Mostly elderly and the houses are far apart. They are getting soooo excited! Wonder if Clay is taking Parker out????
Happy Halloween to everyone but I am staying home and in my bedroom. I let others open the door to trick or treaters. Any one with a mask on or with their face made up to be extensively altered scares the living daylights out of me. I need to see a person's normal face or I stress out. Now the guy in third picture down would be a welcome sight. I would even invite him in to stay a while.
~<3~ happy halloween, martha and everyone! stay safe and have fun! thanks for your blog, loved it alot! ~<3~
happy halloween everyone and happy hallowen to clay and his son im staying home and also in my bed room i might dress up
I love the pictures.will be working the phone bank at Obama Hdqrtrs.Please find out what Clay dressed up as.