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Orange and black are Halloween colors because orange is associated with the Fall harvest & black is associated with darkness. Pumpkins
also come in white, blue and green. Great for unique monster carvings! Halloween
was brought to North America by immigrants from Europe who would
celebrate the harvest around a bonfire, share ghost stories, sing, dance
& tell fortunes. Tootsie
Rolls were the first wrapped penny candy in America. The
ancient Celts thought that spirits & ghosts roamed the countryside
on Halloween night. They began wearing masks & costumes to avoid
being recognized as human. Halloween
candy sales average about 2 billion dollars annually in the United
States. Chocolate candy bars top the list as the most popular candy for
trick-or-treaters with Snickers #1. Halloween
is the 2nd most commercially successful holiday, with Christmas being
the first. Bobbing
for apples is thought to have originated from the roman harvest festival
that honors Pamona, the Goddess of fruit trees. Black cats were once
believed to be witch's familiars who protected their powers. |
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Signs of a werewolf are a uni-brow, hair palms, tattoos, & a long middle finger. Vampires are mythical beings who defy death by sucking the blood of humans. In 1962, the Count Dracula Society was founded. To this day, there are vampire clubs & societies with people claiming to be real vampires.
There really are so-called vampire bats, but they're not from Transylvania. They live in Central & South America. They feed on the blood of cattle, horses & birds.
Many
people still believe that gargoyles were created by medieval architects
& stone carvers to ward off evil spirits. Worldwide,
bats are vital natural enemies of night-flying insects. The common
little brown bat of North America has the longest life span for a mammal
it's size, with a life span averaging 32 years.
In
about 1 in 4 autopsies, a major disease is discovered that was
previously undetected.
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