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Wikipedia: Halloween
Halloween (or Hallowe’en) is an international holiday celebrated on October 31. Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, ghost tours, bonfires, costume parties, visiting haunted attractions, carving jack-o'-lanterns, reading scary stories, and watching horror movies. Irish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century. Other western countries embraced the holiday in the late twentieth century. Halloween is celebrated in several countries of the Western world, most commonly in the United States, Canada, Ireland, Puerto Rico, Japan, New Zealand, United Kingdom, and occasionally in parts of Australia. In Sweden the All Saints' official holiday takes place on the first Saturday of November.History
Halloween has its origins in the ancient Celtic festival known as Samhain (Irish pronunciation: [ˈsˠaunʲ]; from the Old Irish samain).[1] The festival of Samhain is a celebration of the end of the harvest season in Gaelic culture, and is sometimes [2] regarded as the "Celtic New Year".[3] Traditionally, the festival was a time used by the ancient pagans to take stock of supplies and slaughter livestock for winter stores. The ancient Gaels believed that on October 31, now known as Halloween, the boundary between the alive and the deceased dissolved, and the dead become dangerous for the living by causing problems such as sickness or damaged crops. The festivals would frequently involve bonfires, into which bones of slaughtered livestock were thrown. Costumes and masks were also worn at the festivals in an attempt to mimic the evil spirits or placate them.[4][5]
History of name
The term Halloween is shortened from All Hallows' Even (both "even" and "eve" are abbreviations of "evening", but "Halloween" gets its "n" from "even") as it is the eve of "All Hallows' Day",[6] which is now also known as All Saints' Day. It was a day of religious festivities in various northern European Pagan traditions,[3] until Popes Gregory III and Gregory IV moved the old Christian feast of All Saints' Day from May 13 (which had itself been the date of a pagan holiday, the Feast of the Lemures) to November 1. In the ninth century, the Church measured the day as starting at sunset, in accordance with the Florentine calendar. Although All Saints' Day is now considered to occur one day after Halloween, the two holidays were, at that time, celebrated on the same day. Liturgically, the Church traditionally celebrated that day as the Vigil of All Saints, and, until 1970, a day of fasting as well. Like other vigils, it was celebrated on the previous day if it fell on a Sunday, although secular celebrations of the holiday remained on the 31st. The Vigil was suppressed in 1955, but was later restored in the post-Vatican II calendar.
Symbols
The carved pumpkin, lit by a candle inside, is one of Halloween's most prominent symbols in America, and is commonly called a jack-o'-lantern. Originating in Europe, these lanterns were first carved from a turnip or rutabaga. Believing that the head was the most powerful part of the body containing the spirit and the knowledge, the Celts used the "head" of the vegetable to frighten off any superstitions.[7] The name jack-o'-lantern can be traced back to the Irish legend of Stingy Jack, [8] a greedy, gambling, hard-drinking old farmer. He tricked the devil into climbing a tree and trapped him by carving a cross into the tree trunk. In revenge, the devil placed a curse on Jack, condemning him to forever wander the earth at night with the only light he had: a candle inside of a hollowed turnip. The carving of pumpkins is associated with Halloween in North America,[9] where pumpkins were readily available and much larger, making them easier to carve than turnips. Many families that celebrate Halloween carve a pumpkin into a frightening or comical face and place it on their home's doorstep after dark. In America the tradition of carving pumpkins is known to have preceded the Great Famine period of Irish immigration. The carved pumpkin was originally associated with harvest time in general in America and did not become specifically associated with Halloween until the mid-to-late 19th century.
The imagery surrounding Halloween is largely an amalgamation of the Halloween season itself, nearly a century of work from American filmmakers and graphic artists,[10] and a rather commercialized take on the dark and mysterious. Halloween imagery tends to involve death, magic, or mythical monsters. Traditional characters include ghosts, ghouls, witches, owls, crows, vultures, pumpkin-men, black cats, spiders, goblins, zombies, mummies, skeletons, and demons.[11]
Particularly in America, symbolism is inspired by classic horror films, which contain fictional figures like Frankenstein's monster and The Mummy. Elements of the autumn season, such as pumpkins and scarecrows, are also prevalent. Homes are often decorated with these types of symbols around Halloween.
Main article: Trick-or-treating
Costumes
Main article: Halloween costume
Halloween costumes are traditionally those of monsters such as ghosts, skeletons, witches, and devils. Costumes are also based on themes other than traditional horror, such as those of characters from television shows, movies and other pop culture icons.
Costume sales
BIGresearch conducted a survey for the National Retail Federation in the United States and found that 53.3% of consumers planned to buy a costume for Halloween 2005, spending $38.11 on average (up 10 dollars from the year before). They were also expected to spend $4.96 billion in 2006, up significantly from just $3.3 billion the previous year.[12]
UNICEF
Main article: Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF
"'Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF" has become a common sight during Halloween in North America. Started as a local event in a Philadelphia suburb in 1950, and expanded nationally in 1952, the program involves the distribution of small boxes by schools (or in modern times, corporate sponsors like Hallmark at their licensed stores) to trick-or-treaters, in which they can solicit small change donations from the houses they visit. It is estimated that children have collected more than $119 million (US) for UNICEF since its inception. In 2006 UNICEF discontinued their Halloween collection boxes in parts of the world, citing safety and administrative concerns. [13]
Games and other activities
In this Halloween greeting card from 1904, divination is depicted: the young woman looking into a mirror in a darkened room hopes to catch a glimpse of the face of her future husband.
There are several games traditionally associated with Halloween parties. The most common[citation needed] is dunking or apple bobbing, in which apples float in a tub or a large basin of water; the participants must use their teeth to remove an apple from the basin. A variant of dunking involves kneeling on a chair, holding a fork between the teeth and trying to drop the fork into an apple. Another common game involves hanging up treacle or syrup-coated scones by strings; these must be eaten without using hands while they remain attached to the string, an activity which inevitably leads to a very sticky face.
Some games traditionally played at Halloween are forms of divination. In Puicíní (pronounced "poocheeny"), a game played in Ireland, a blindfolded person is seated in front of a table on which several saucers are placed. The saucers are shuffled and the seated person then chooses one by touch. The contents of the saucer determine the person's life during the following year. A saucer containing earth means someone known to the player will die during the next year, a saucer containing water foretells emigration, a ring foretells marriage, a set of Rosary beads indicates that the person will take Holy Orders (becoming a nun or a priest). A coin means new wealth, a bean means poverty, and so on. In 19th century Ireland, young women placed slugs in saucers sprinkled with flour. A traditional Irish and Scottish form of divining one's future spouse is to carve an apple in one long strip, then toss the peel over one's shoulder. The peel is believed to land in the shape of the first letter of the future spouse's name. This custom has survived among Irish and Scottish immigrants in the rural United States.
Unmarried women were frequently told that if they sat in a darkened room and gazed into a mirror on Halloween night, the face of their future husband would appear in the mirror. However, if they were destined to die before marriage, a skull would appear. The custom was widespread enough to be commemorated on greeting cards from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The mirror gaze was one of many forms of love divination around Halloween and other ancient holy days.
The telling of ghost stories and viewing of horror films are common fixtures of Halloween parties. Episodes of TV series and specials with Halloween themes (with the specials usually aimed at children) are commonly aired on or before the holiday while new horror films, like the popular Saw films, are often released theatrically before the holiday to take advantage of the atmosphere.
Haunted Attractions
Main article: Haunted attraction
Haunted attractions are entertainment venues designed to thrill and scare patrons, and typically are seasonal Halloween businesses. They include haunted houses, corn mazes, and hayrides that are staffed by actors in horrifying costumes placed to startle and terrify customers.[14]
Foods
Candy apple
Because the holiday comes in the wake of the annual apple harvest, candy apples (also known as toffee or taffy apples) are a common Halloween treat made by rolling whole apples in a sticky sugar syrup, and sometimes rolling them in nuts. At one time, candy apples were commonly given to children, but the practice rapidly waned in the wake of widespread rumors that some individuals were embedding items like pins and razor blades in the apples.[15] While there is evidence of such incidents,[16] they are quite rare and have never resulted in serious injury. Nonetheless, many parents assumed that such heinous practices were rampant; at the peak of the hysteria, some hospitals offered free x-rays of children's Halloween hauls in order to find evidence of tampering. Virtually all of the few known candy poisoning incidents involved parents who poisoned their own children's candy, while there have been occasional reports of children putting needles in their own (and other children's) candy in a mere bid for attention.
One custom which persists in modern-day Ireland is the baking (or more often nowadays the purchase) of a barmbrack (Irish "báirín breac"), which is a light fruit cake into which a plain ring, a coin and other charms are placed before baking. It is said that those who get a ring will find their true love in the ensuing year. See also king cake.
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Thursday, October 23, 2008
The worst memory
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Saturday, August 2, 2008
A very long, boring afternoon...
There's nothing I can do
But you won't know something is happing.
I just turning on
And I updated my blog
I was saying goodbye
For VBognot626
I exclaimed "What a shame"
And I just have no idea.
He died without any information
And "Thanks for watching, and have a great day"
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Friday, July 18, 2008
Saturday, July 5, 2008
STORM ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There will be a big storm during Saturday 8:00 AM to Sunday 12:00 PM in Shenyang.
We will get in focus with the big storm.
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Sunday, June 29, 2008
South China tigers photos of the fake photos, Zhou Zhenglong was arrested for fraud
Zhenping County of Shaanxi Chengguan Town, Cai Zhou Zhenglong villagers claimed that the text color in the village of God Island Bay shooting of wild South China tigers to the "precious photos." China news agency, Zhou Zhenglong perturbationPRC Xi'an - June 25 (Xinhua Yan Yang) this morning, informed of Shaanxi Province, "South China tiger photo incident" investigation and handling of the situation. South China tigers photos of the so-called false picture, "camera" because of Fanzhapianzui Zhou Zhenglong, was arrested this point, was much hubbub of Shaanxi Province, "South China tiger photo incident" settled. October 12, 2007, the Shaanxi Provincial Forestry Department said foreign Zhenping County of Shaanxi Province Chengguan Town, the village farmers Zhou Zhenglong color photograph of the wild South China tigers pictures of as many as over 70, the Shaanxi Provincial Forestry Office, as "identification" that Photo true, and reward the Zhou Zhenglong 20,000 yuan. This matter has caused many of the media and Internet users a wide range of concerns, "South China tigers as" the authenticity of the dialectical prevalent. It is understood that South China tigers as a species unique to China tiger, south of the Qinling Mountains of the southeast, southwest and south China provinces, as the history of the South China tiger in the area, is located in the Qinba Mountain Zhenping County, South China tiger is also the haunt of local . In the early 1950s, China only about 4,000 South China tigers there, but the last 20 years, wild South China tigers had witnessed the record. In 1996, the South China tiger by the United Nations International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources Organization as the world's most endangered species in need of protection and the first sub-species.
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Saturday, June 28, 2008
I'm back!
OK, there's nothing but my posts, haha!
Well, forgot to tell you, I'm back, I'm not update this blog very often because I had no time!
But, you know what's happening here:
I'm not countiuing Scary Logos 100 because I cannot collect them all.
More soon...
Monday, June 9, 2008
This is weird...
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Sunday, June 8, 2008
SCARY LOGOS TOP 100 (1)
HERE ARE THE LOGOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
100.Columbia from Strait-Jacket
Funny. But some scary things out there.
Head down.
COLUMBIA TOO BIG.
Lights off.
OUT OF SAFE AREAS COLUMBIA!
COLUMBIA TOO THIN.
99.NRA/Paramount from Duck Soup
98.Columbia Short Subject
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