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Halloween Books
Year: 2007
Halloween Humor
Ghost Riddles
1. What kind of music do ghosts like?
2. Why did the ghost take his family on an elevator ride every day?
3. What do ghosts do when they want to start up a computer?
4. How did the ghost do at the comedy club?
5. What do you call a website for ghosts?
6. What is Casper’s favorite sticky treat?
7. Where do baby ghosts come from?
8. Why did the ghost go to the doctor?
9. What would you get if you crossed a cocker spaniel, a French poodle, and a ghost?
10. Who protects the shores where spirits live?
11. What did the papa ghost say to his ghostly children?
12. What is a ghost’s favorite direction?
13. Why couldn’t the ghost ride the bus?
14. Why did the ghost rush home from school?
15. Why did the police officer arrest the ghost?
16. What do young ghosts call their moms and dads?
17. Where do little ghosts learn to yell “BOO!”?
18. Why are ghosts like newspaper?
Ghost Riddles Answers:
1. Rhythm and boos.
2. To raise their spirits.
3. They boo-t it up!
4. He was a dead-knockout.
5. Bahoo or Yaboo!
6. Boo-ble gum.
7. Boo Genes.
8. To get a booster shot.
9. A cocker-poodle-boo!
10. The Ghost Guard.
11. Fasten your sheet belt.
12. Horror-zontal.
13. Because he didn’t have exact chains.
14. To watch an afterghoul special on TV.
15. Because he didn’t have a haunting license.
16. Transparent.
17. In noisery school.
18. Because they appear in sheets.
Goulish Giggles
Q: What did that boy ghost say to the girl ghost?
A: You are the most booooooooo-tiful thing I have ever seen!
Q: What happens when a ghost gets lost in the fog?
A: He is mist.
Q: What do you call a witch who lives at the beach?
A: A sand-witch.
Q: Where does a ghost go on Saturday night?
A: Anywhere where he can boo-gie.
Q: What is a vampires favorite holiday?
A: Fangsgiving
Q: What did the skeleton say to the vampire?
A: You suck.
Q: What happens when two vampires meet?
A: It was love at first bite!
Q: What do goblins and ghosts drink when they’re hot and thirsty on Halloween?
A: Ghoul-aid!!!
Q: Why is a ghost such a messy eater?
A: Because he is always a goblin.
Q: Who was the most famous ghost detective?
A: Sherlock Moans.
Q: What do you call two spiders that just got married?
A: Newlywebbed
Q: Why was the girl afraid of the vampire?
A: He was all bite and no bark.
Q: Who was the most famous French skeleton?
A: Napoleon bone-apart
Q: Where does Count Dracula usually eat his lunch?
A: At the casketeria.
Q: What kind of makeup do ghosts wear?
A: Mas-scare-a.
Q: Why doesn’t Dracula mind the doctor looking at his throat.
A: Because of the coffin.Q: Why do demons and ghouls hang out together?
A: Because demons are a ghouls best friend!
Q: What do you call a goblin who gets too close to a bonfire?
A: A toasty ghosty.
Q: Where do most goblins live?
A: In North and South Scarolina.
Q: What do you get when you cross a black cat with a lemon.
A: Sour-pussQ: How do you scare a mummy
A: With a yummy dummy in a crash test crummy.Q: Why do vampires scare people?
A: They are bored to death!
Q: What did the ghost say to the man at the coffee shop?
A: Scream or sugar!
Q: Where does a ghost refuel his Porsche?
A: At a ghastly station.
Q: Who was the most famous skeleton detective?
A: Sherlock Bones.
Q: Where did the goblin throw the football?
A: Over the ghoul line.
Q: What instrument do skeleton play?
A: Trom-BONE.
Q: What do ghosts eat for breakfast?
A: Boo-Berries.
Q: Which building does Dracula visit in New York?
A: The Vampire State Building.
Q: What is a Mummy?s favorite type of music?
A: Wrap!!!!!
Q: What tops off a ghost’s ice cream sundae?
A: Whipped scream.
Q: What’s a monster’s favorite bean?
A: A human bean.
Q: What do you give a skeleton for valentine’s day?
A: Bone-bones in a heart shaped box.
Q: What do you call a little monsters parents
A: Mummy and deadyQ: What do you get when you cross a vampire with the Internet?
A: Blood-thirsty hacker baby
Q: How can you tell a vampire likes baseball?
A: Every night he turns into a bat.
Q: What’s it called when a vampire has trouble with his house?
A: A grave problem.
Q: Why did Dracula go to the dentist?
A: He had a fang-ache.
Q: What’s it like to be kissed by a vampire?
A: It’s a pain in the neck.
Q: How can you tell when a vampire has been in a bakery?
A: All the jelly has been sucked out of the jelly doughnuts.
Q: What is a vampires least favorite food?
A: Steak
Q: Why doesn’t anybody like Dracula?
A: He has a bat temper.
Q: What do witches use in their hair?
A: Scare-spray
Q: Why do girl ghosts go on diets?
A: So they can keep their ghoulish figures.
Q: Where did the ghost get it’s hair done?
A: At the boo-ty shop.
Q: Where does a ghost go on Saturday night?
A: Anywhere where he can boo-gie.
Q: What do they teach in witching school?
A: Spelling.
Q: Why does a witch ride a broom?
A: Vacuum cleaners get stuck at the end of the cord.
Q: Why can’t the boy ghost have babies?
A: Because he has a Hallo-weenie.
Q: Why did the ghost go into the bar?
A: For the Boos.
Q: What are ghosts’ favorite kind of streets?
A: Dead ends
Q: Who does Dracula get letters from?
A: His fang club.
Q: What’s a monsters favorite desert?
A: I-Scream!!
Q: When does a ghost have breakfast?
A: In the moaning.
Q: What do you call a witch’s garage?
A: A broom closet.
Q: Riddle: the maker does not want it, the buyer does not use it, and the user does not see it, what is it?
A: A coffin.
Q: What is a witch’s favorite subject in school?
A: Spelling
Q: What do ghosts drink at breakfast?
A: Coffee with scream and sugar.
Q: Where do ghosts go out?
A: Where they can get boooooo-ze.
Q: Why did the man with a knife in his head cross the street?
A: He was dying to get to the other side!
Q: What do ghosts say when something is really neat?
A: Ghoul
Q: Why did the skeleton cross the road?
A: To go to the body shop.
Q: How does a girl vampire flirt?
A: She bats her eyes.
Q: Why did Dracula take cold medicine?
A: To stop his coffin.
Q: What can’t you give the headless horseman?
A: A headache.
Q: What kind of tie does a ghost wear to a formal party?
A: A boo-tie.
Q: What’s a ghosts favorite desert?
A: Boo-berry pie.
Q: Why did the game warden arrest the ghost?
A: He didn’t have a haunting license.
Q: Why did the skeleton go disco dancing?
A: To see the boogy man.
Q: Why didn?t the skeleton cross the road?
A: He had no guts.
Q: What did the Mummy movie director say when the final scene was done?
A: OK, that’s a wrap.
Q: How do you keep a monster from biting his nails?
A: Give him screws.
Q: Where does a ghost go on vacation?
A: Mali-boo.
Q: Why can’t Boy Ghosts make babies?
A: Because they have Hollow-Weenies!
Q: What did the mother ghost say to her kids in the car?
A: Fasten your sheet belts.
Q: What do you call two witches living together?
A: Broommates.
Q: What did the corpse’ mom do when her son was bad?
A: Ground him
Q: Why was the mummy so tense?
A: Because he was all wound up.
Q: Why didn’t the skeleton dance at the party?
A: He had no body to dance with.
Q: Why does Dracula wear patent leather shoes?
A: Sandals don’t look good with his tuxedo.
Q: Why don’t mummies take vacations?
A: They’re afraid they’ll relax and unwind.
Q: What is a ghosts favorite sale?
A: A white sale.
Q: Where do ghosts go out?
A: Where they can get sheet-faced.
Q: Why don’t ghost have bands?
A: They get boooooed.
Q: Why did the vampire need mouthwash?
A: Because he had bat breath.
Q: What do you call a monster who poisons corn flakes?
A: A cereal killer.
Q: Why didn’t the skeleton go to see a scary movie?
A: He didn’t have the guts.
Q: Who was the most famous witch detective?
A: Warlock Holmes
Q: What do you get when you cross a pumpkin with a skwaush?
A: A squashed pumpkin pie.
Q: Why do ghosts shiver and moan?
A: It’s drafty under that sheet.
Q: What do u get when there is a witch in the desert?
A: You get a sandwich.
Q: Why do ghosts like to ride elevators?
A: It raises their spirits.
Q: What songs does Dracula hate?
A: “You Are My Sunshine” and “Sunshine on my Shoulders.
Q: What?s a ghost’s favorite type of car?
A: A boo-ick
Q: What’s a skeletons favorite part of the house?
A: The living room
Q: What did the bird say on Halloween?
A: Trick or tweet!
Q: What is a vampire?s favorite fruit?
A: A necktarine
Q: Who are some of the werewolves cousins?
A: The whatwolves, the whowolves and the when wolves.
Q: Where do ghost go for fun?
A: To the boo-vies
Q: What do the skeletons say be for eating?
A: Bone appetite
Q: Why didn’t the skeleton go to the Halloween party?
A: Because he had no body to go with.
Q: What did the teenage witch ask her mother on Halloween?
A: Can I have the keys to the broom tonight.
Q: How did the ghost say goodbye to the vampire?
A: So long sucker!
Q: Why can’t a Skeleton Lift Weights?
A: He’s all bone & no muscle.
Q: What’s a Vampire’s least favorite song?
A: Another one bites the dust!
Q: What is a Skeleton’s favorite song.
A: Bad to the BoneQ: What do ghosts call there girl friends?
A: There goul friends.
Q: Why are vampires like false teeth?
A: They all come out at night.
Q: What was the mummies’ vacation like?
A: Nobody knows. They were too wrapped up to tell us.
Q: Why did the headless horseman go into business?
A: He wanted to get ahead in life.
Q: What kind of key does a skeleton use?
A: A skeleton key.
Q: Why do skeletons drink milk?
A: To help their bones!
Q: What did the goblin say to the witch?
A: I don’t know you tell me!
Q: What did Dracula say after reading all these jokes?
A: They suck! (or they bite!)
Halloween Movies / DVD
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7 Classic Movie Monsters
1. Frankenstein Movies — 1931 (Universal Pictures)
Not the first Frankenstein film, but the first full-on Hollywood treatment of Mary Shelley’s classic book. Brilliantly directed by James Whale, Frankenstein is in fact the name of the mad scientist and monster-maker. Then unknown, Boris Karloff plays the nameless monster, who manages to evoke sympathy from the audience despite his grotesque form, hideous face and shocking violence. Watch the original and its fabulous sequel, and then watch the inspired Mel Brooks spoof, Young Frankenstein.
2. The Bride of Frankenstein Movies –1935 (Universal Pictures)
This amazing sequel is campy as they come, and actually a little better than the first film. James Whale directs Karloff again, anticipating all the spoofs that were to come with this bizarre, weirdly comic film. Elsa Lanchester plays Mary Shelley in the prologue, and also the nameless Bride of the Monster. Here again, the title is meant to refer to the bride of the scientist, but Lanchester’s electric bouffant from hell made her The Bride of Frankenstein forevermore. Her shriek when she sees her intended is one of the great movie screams of all time.
3. Dracula Movies — 1931 (Universal Pictures)
Okay, this was a hit back in the day, but it really drags compared to many of the terrific Dracula films that were to come. Nevertheless, it launched Bela Lugosi as the first American movie version of the hypnotic, undead count and his blood-drinking ways, and established the character in movie mythology. Lugosi is fun in the role, and the film has some lovely cinematography, but he’s just not as sexy as many of the screen Draculas who came later. Let’s face it, vampires are supposed to be hot. Lugosi, not so much anymore.
4. King Kong Movies –1933 (RKO Radio Pictures)
Still good fun, this rip-roaring, low-budget old film swings from the forests of Skull Island to the canyons of Manhattan. King Kong was the first of the great big beasties to grace the big screen, fighting with pterodactyls and giant snakes on his home turf. He is eventually undone by the modern world and his erotic fascination with the “Queen of Screams,” Fay Wray. A monster hit, its stop-action silliness was revolutionary at the time, and King Kong has been remade again and again. Make sure you get the restored version, where Kong picks off Fay’s diaphanous clothing with his enormous fingers, the big ape.
5. Mummy Movies –1932
Moody, atmospheric and restrained, this is more of a dark love story than a real chiller. Boris Karloff is The Mummy, dry as dust, searching over the centuries for his long-lost love. German expressionist director Karl Freund keeps the monster under wraps (sorry) for most of the movie, and the scene where the mummy first awakens and opens his eye under a linen strap is unforgettable. Karloff was the king of the early movie monsters, and here he rules again, allowing the essential humanity of his supernatural character to somehow seep out from under the costume and the makeup.
6. The Invisible Man Movies -1933
Another entry in the mad scientist run amok genre, the special effects in The Invisible Man hold up pretty well – a tribute to James Whale’s expert direction. A very young Claude Rains stars as the hero who is in fact unseen for most of the film, causing mayhem among the villagers, laughing insanely and plotting world domination. It’s got Whale’s touches of dark humor throughout, but a cackling performance by Una O’Connor as a terrorized innkeeper gets awfully old. Still, one of the best of the old black and whites.
7. The Wolf Man Movies -1941
One of Hollywood’s original classic monsters, The Wolf Man was not a literary character like Frankenstein or Dracula, but a myth made for the silver screen. Lon Chaney, Jr., whose famous father had played in the early, silent versions of The Phantom of the Opera and The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, gives his best performance here (the many sequels in which he appeared are pretty lame.) The film is chiefly notable for the stop-motion scenes of the wolf’s transformation, achieved with a rubbery snoot and yak hair. Not too scary, I’m afraid, but it established another enduring legend for remakes, parodies and retellings.
Halloween Foods & Desserts Recipe
LET’S TASTE A SWEET HALLOWEEN TREATS…
Candy Apple
8-10 small to medium apples, washed and dried
wooden skewers or popsicle sticks, for apples
Ingredients:
Candy syrup:
1 cup water
3 cups sugar
1/2 cup white corn syrup
1/4 cup red hot candies
1/2 teaspoon red food coloring
Preparation:
Insert wooden skewers into the stem end of each apple.
In a large (at least 2 quarts) aluminum heavy pot, stir the candy syrup mixture together until sugar dissolves. On medium heat, bring mixture to boiling without stirring. Do not stir, and let boil until mixture reads 290-300 F on a candy thermometer (or when a drop makes hard threads in cold water). This takes about 20 minutes, depending on type of pan and amount of heat.
Remove pan from heat and immediately tilt pan and swirl each apple quickly to coat. Allow a second for excess to drip, then set apples on a greased cookie sheet to cool and harden. If syrup in pot thickens too fast, return pot to low heat, then continue.
Let apples cool at least one hour before serving. Wrap each apple in a square of clear plastic wrap to keep moist air from making them sticky. (Don’t use waxed paper!)
Caution: Do not ever double the recipe; it works best when made in single batches.
Ref: razzledazzlerecipes.com
Candy Corn
Ingredients:
1 cup sugar
2/3 cup white corn syrup
1/3 cup butter
1 tsp. vanilla
2 1/2 cup powdered sugar
1/4 tsp. salt
1/3 cup powdered milk
food coloring
Instructions:
Combine sugar, butter, and corn syrup in pan and bring to a boil stirring constantly. Turn heat low and boil 5 minutes. Stir occasionally. Remove from heat and add vanilla.
In a separate dish, combine powdered sugar, salt, and powdered milk. Add all at once to the mixture in the pan. Add food coloring if desired. Stir until cool enough to handle. Shape.
Makes 1 3/4 pounds of candy.
Candy Ghosts
Ingredients:
4 tablespoons of evaporated milk
3 cups confectioners’ sugar
Black or red string licorice
Preparation:
Measure the milk into the bowl then add the sugar slowly using a fork to mix it in until
all the sugar has been added. It will be thick and you will be able to knead it with your hands. Knead it until the mixture is very smooth and easy to work with, like play dough.
Tear off bits of the mixture and shape into little ghost shapes. Cut bits of the licorice to use as eyes and mouths. Chill.
Makes about 10 ghosts depending upon how big you make them. This can also be rolled out and cut with cookie cutters.
Halloween Spider Pie
Serving Size: 8
Notes: By using a little decorator frosting, you can turn a frozen pumpkin pie into something special.
Ingredients:
– 1 Pumpkin Pie (frozen and baked or ready baked)
– White Frosting (cake decorating icing)
– Writing Tip (for white frosting)
– 1 Plastic Spider
Preparation:
Draw a spider web on your favorite pumpkin pie and give that web its own spider. The little ones will love it and it make a nice touch to any Halloween buffet.
Web Cookies
Total: 13 min 30 sec
Prep: 5 min
Cook: 1 min 30 sec
Bake: 7 min
(Total time will vary; cook or bake time is per batch.)
Makes 2 1/2 dozen 4- to 5-inch cookies
Ingredient:
3/4 cup Gold Medal? all-purpose flour or unbleached flour
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1/4 cup milk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
2 eggs
Powdered sugar
Preparation:
1. Beat all ingredients except powdered sugar in medium bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until smooth. Pour batter into plastic squeeze bottle with narrow opening. Heat 8-inch skillet over medium heat until hot; grease lightly.
2. Working quickly, squeeze batter to form 4 straight, thin lines that intersect at a common center point to form a star shape. To form cobweb, squeeze thin streams of batter to connect lines.
3. Cook 30 to 60 seconds or until bottom is golden brown; carefully turn. Cook until golden brown; remove from skillet. Cool on wire rack.
4. Heat oven to 325^(o)F. Bake cookies on ungreased cookie sheet 5 to 7 minutes or until almost crisp (cookies will become crisp as they cool). Remove from cookie sheet; cool. Sprinkle with powdered sugar. Store cookies in container with loose-fitting cover.
Ghost Cookies
Notes: These can be put together in a jiffy.
Ingredients:
1 lb. white chocolate coating
1 pkg. Nutter Butter Peanut Bars
1 pkg. mini chocolate chips
Preparation:
In the top of a double boiler melt white chocolate coating. Dip cookies into coating covering completely. Set on waxed paper to cool. Spread melted chocolate to areas which did not get covered. Add eyes using mini chocolate chips.
Jack-o-lantern Crispy Rice
Notes:
This is an easy way to make a Jack-o-lantern you can eat.
Ingredients:
1 Stick Butter
2 (10 oz). Packages Marshmallows
12 C. Rice Crispy Cereal
1 tsp. Yellow Food Color
1/4 tsp. Red Food Color
Green Decorating Icing in Tube
Black Decorating Icing in Tube
Decorating Tips
12 C. Bowl (not plastic)
Preparation:
Melt butter on low heat and add marshmallows. Stir marshmallows frequently. When marshmallows have dissolved, add food colors and mix well. When the marshmallow mixture is uniform in orange color add cereal and stir and mix until rice crispies are completely coated.
Pour mixture into the bowl that has been well sprayed with a non-stick spray. Carefully press down cereal (spray the spoon or your hands when pressing the cereal, this helps so the cereal will not stick). Place into the refrigerator until completely chilled and firm. When the pumpkin is chilled remove from refrigerator and invert onto a plate. Remove bowl and decorate with leaves and stem. A great jack o lantern smile will be the finishing touch.
The Jack-o-lantern makes a great centerpiece and a delightful treat.
R.I.P Cake
Ingredients:
8-inch square baked chocolate cake (from mix or scratch)
Store bought chocolate icing
1 cup shredded coconut
Green food coloring
White chocolate bar
Black icing (can also use semisweet chocolate morsels, melted in microwave)
Preparation:
Coat cake with chocolate icing. Combine coconut and enough green food coloring to make green “grass”.
Break the white chocolate bar into squares for tombstones. Break off a few with jagged edges to look like old stones.
Place black icing or melted chocolate into a plastic zip-tip bag and cut a tiny hole in the corner. Pipe ‘RIP’ onto the chocolate squares. Allow to dry. (You can place them in the refrigerator for a few minutes for a quick dry.)
Sprinkle grass over top of cake. Insert pieces of white chocolate to make tombstones.
ref: foodnetwork.com
Wicked Cupcakes
Ingredients:
1 1/2 ounces fine-quality semisweet chocolate, chopped
1/4 cups prune juice
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoons salt
1 large egg
1 large egg yolk
1/3 cup buttermilk
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Frosting:
1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 cup peanut butter (smooth or chunky)
4-ounces cream cheese, at room temperature
4 cups confectioners’ sugar
2 tablespoons milk
1 drop food coloring (green), optional
Chocolate wafer cookies
Licorice strips
Toasted coconut
Small candies
Special equipment: 12 (1/2-cup) muffin cups with paper liners
For the cupcakes: Position a rack in the middle of the oven and preheat to 300 degrees F. Set liners in muffin cups.
Preparation:
Put the chocolate and prune juice in a microwave safe bowl. Heat in the microwave on low power, stirring occasionally, until completely melted.
Whisk the flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder, and salt in a large bowl. In another bowl, beat the egg and yolk with an electric hand mixer at high speed until slightly thick and lemon colored, about 3 minutes. Slowly add buttermilk, oil, vanilla, and melted chocolate mixture to eggs, beating until thoroughly combined. Add the flour mixture and beat until just combined.
Divide the batter among muffin tins, filling them 1/2 of the way. Bake until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cupcakes comes out clean and the tops spring back when pressed gently, about 25 minutes. Cool the cupcakes in the tin on a rack for 10 minutes then remove from the tin and cool completely.
For the frosting: Beat the butter, peanut butter, and cream cheese in a large bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Gradually add the confectioners’ sugar and milk mixing until the frosting is smooth. Add food coloring as desired. Refrigerate the frosting until firm.
To decorate the cakes: For the witches hat, score a circle in the middle of a cupcake. Cut a deep cone-like shape with a knife held at an angle. Rotate the cupcake to complete the circle and remove the center. Repeat with all the cupcakes. Generously scoop or pipe enough frosting into the center of each cupcake to fill the whole and to come over the cake to make a face. Top with a chocolate wafer cookie. Put a dot of frosting in the middle of the wafer cookie and invert the cone shaped piece of cake on top to make a witches hat. Use skinny licorice, toasted coconut or cereal flakes for hair and candies for eyes and/or nose. Refrigerate for up to 30 minutes before serving.
Ref: foodnetwork.com
Halloween Haunted Attractions
HALLOWEEN HAUNTED ATTRACTION OR DARK ATTRACTION
is a venue which simulates the experience of visiting a structure or outside space that is inhabited by what appear to be supernatural such as ghosts or spirits. They can also be venues featuring other frightening subjects such as crazed animals or loose murderers. The illusion, created by actors, animatronics, theatrical sets, sounds, lighting, and other special effects, is designed to frighten patrons who typically purchase tickets for the privilege. These events are open to the public and commonly held throughout the month of October, leading up to Halloween. However there is a small sub-set of dark attractions that are open all year long. Over the years, dark attractions have expanded their scope beyond the “haunted house” format to include any place that is either ominous or foreboding, such as abandoned factories, old prisons or early 1900s-era hospitals/asylums.
Haunted hayride
Haunted hayrides are haunted attractions set in farmers’ fields, primarily across the US. There is no definite record of where the first one was held. As popularity increased entrepreneurs began to view the haunted hayride as a legitimate family attraction, and helped to create a new Halloween tradition.
Haunted trail
A haunted trail or spooky trail is usually held at night in a public park, garden, or preserve, although it may be held at any outdoor venue. They are often included as one of the attractions at a Halloween carnival. In most instances, a trail or walkway is used. When said trail or walkway does not exist, one is cordoned off through use of ropes or barriers. Along this trail are displays or exhibits representing cemeteries, crime scenes, and the like. Also along this trail are human subjects dressed up to resemble mummies,vampires,werewolves,ghosts, and various other scary characters. These actors frequently jump out at guests along the trail, or they may walk back and forth in silence and make threatening gestures with axes, chainsaws or other sharp garden equipment. Some haunted trails may have a maze near the end. A variant of the haunted trail that has gained popularity over the past few years has been the cornfield maze, in which patrons follow a path cut through the dense foliage of a cornfield and encounter various creatures.
Haunted yard
An American Halloween tradition is to decorate a house, yard or garage and open it to other members of the public. For some, the yard is something created specificially for Trick-or-treating and is in place for one night only. For others, the decorations are done more in the tradition of Christmas decor and appear a month or so before the actual holiday.
Common motifs for Halloween yard are settings resembling a cemetery,a haunted house, or a specific monster-driven theme built around famous creatures or characters.
Typical elements of decoration include Jack-o’-lanterns, fake spiders and cobwebs, and artificial gravestones and coffins. Coffins can be built to contain bodies or skeletons, and are sometimes rigged with animatronic equipment and motion detectors so that they will spring open in reaction to passers-by. Eerie music and sound effects are often played over loudspeakers to add to the atmosphere. Yard haunts can also be given a more “professional” look, now that such items as fog machines and strobe lights have become available for easily affordable prices at discount retailers.
Ref: wikipedia.com
Halloween Clip Arts
Halloween Clip Art Halloween Animation Halloween Witch Halloween Pumpkin Halloween Cats Halloween Skeleton
Cutely Halloween Spooky 🙂
A Rejoice Skeleton Treater 🙂 
Black Cat Fortune Teller 🙂 
A Dazzled Vampire 🙂
Halloween kindhearted Witch 🙂 
Pumpkin Balloon Party 🙂
Spooky Smile 🙂 
A Stubborn Pumpkin 🙂
The Two Spider Monsters 🙂 
A Boo Web 🙂
The Great Treater 🙂 
Dead Mummy Walking 🙂
Spooky Gang 🙂 
A Scary Graveyard 🙂
Hello Pumpkin 🙂 
Glowed in the Dark Pumpkin 🙂
Halloween Treat Bag 🙂 
A Hip-Hop Skeleton 🙂
A Moonlight Spider 🙂 
A Boo Mummy 🙂
Halloween Superstitions
When it’s the time for Halloween celebration, it is then that the people tend to become more superstitious. There are many superstitions and myths about Halloween and most of the people have a strong belief in them. In the reservoir of common Halloween superstitions, there are distinctive kinds of superstitions: animal superstitions, witch superstitions, bats in house superstitions and many more.
General Halloween Superstitions:
• Going in for dumb supper, meaning that nobody will talk while having supper, encourages the spirits to come to the table.
• It is believed that if an unmarried girl keeps a rosemary herb and a silver sixpence under her pillow on Halloween night, it is quite likely that on that very night, she would dream of her future husband.
• It is said that if you hear someone’s footsteps behind you on the Halloween night, you should not turn back because it may be a dead following you. And if you commit the mistake of looking back, it is likely that you might join the dead very soon.
• People believe that if on the Halloween night, a girl carrying a lamp in her hand goes to a spring of water, she will see the reflection of her life partner in water.
• People have a superstition that if an unmarried girl carries a broken egg in a glass and takes it to a spring of water, she will be able to catch the glimpse of not just her future husband, by mixing some spring water in the glass, but also she can see the reflection of her future kids.
• There is the old saying that “black cats are bad luck”. It was once believed that black cats were the devil, or consumed by evil spirits.
• People used to believe that Satan was a nut-gatherer. Nuts were also used as magic charms on the day of Halloween festival.
• If you put your clothes on inside out as well as outside walk backwards on Halloween night. At midnight you will see a witch in the sky. People used to believe witches were the devil, or that they were consumed by evil.
• There is also an old saying “if the flame on your candle goes out on Halloween celebration; it gives you the meaning that you are with a ghost”.
• If you ring a bell on Halloween it will frighten evil spirits away.
• Many people used to consider that owls would dive down to eat the souls of the dying on Halloween. They used to think if you pulled your pockets out, and left them hanging, they’d be safe.
• It has been said if a bat flies into your house on Halloween, it is a sign that ghosts or spirits are very nearer, and maybe they are in your home and let the bat in.
• People used to believe that if bats are out early on Halloween, and they fly around playfully, then good weather is to come.
• If a bat flies around your house three times on Halloween, death is very soon to come
• To ward off evil spirits on Halloween, you can bury all the animal bones in your front yard, or even put a picture of an animal very close to your doorway.
• People used to believe you could walk around your house three times backwards before sunset on Halloween, and that would take care of all evil.
• It could be the spirit of a dead loved one watching you if you watch a spider on Halloween.
Ref: history
20 Ways to confuse Trick or Treaters:
1. Give away something other than candy. (Toothpicks, golf balls, bags of sand)
2. Wait behind the door until some people come. When they get near the door, jump out, wearing a costume, and holding a bag, and yell, “Trick or Treat!” Look at them, scratch your head, and act confused.
3. Fill a briefcase with marbles and crackers. Write on it, “Top Secret” in big letters. When trick-or-treaters come, look around suspiciously, say, “It’s about time you got here,” give them the briefcase, and quickly shut the door.
4. Get about 30 people to wait in your living room. When trick-or-treaters come to the door, say, “Come in.” When they do, have everyone yell, “Surprise!!!” Act like it’s a surprise party.
5. Get everyone who comes to the door to come in and see if they can figure out what’s wrong with your dishwasher. Insist that it makes an unnatural “whirring” sound.
6. After you give them candy, hand the trick-or-treaters a bill.
7. Open the door dressed as a giant fish. Immediately collapse, and don’t move or say anything until the trick-or-treaters go away. When you answer the door, hold up one candy bar, throw it out into the street, and yell, “Crawl for it!”
8. When you answer the door, look at the trick-or-treaters, act shocked and scared, and start screaming your head off. Slam the door and run around the house, screaming until they go away.
10. Insist that the trick-or-treaters each do ten push-ups before you give them any candy.
11. Hand out menus to the trick-or-treaters and let them order their own candy. Keep asking if anyone wants to see the wine list.
12. Get a catapult. Sit on your porch and catapult pumpkins at anyone who comes within 50 yards of your house.
13. When people come to the door, jump out a nearby window, crashing through the glass, and run as far away from your house as you can.
14. Answer the door dressed as a pilgrim. Stare at the trick-or-treaters for a moment, pretend to be confused, and start flipping through a calendar.
15. Instead of candy, give away colored eggs. If anyone protests, explain that the eggs are the only thing you had left over from Easter.
16. Answer the door dressed as a dentist. Angrily give the trick-or-treaters a two-hour lecture on tooth decay.
17. Answer the door with a mouthful of M & M’s and several half-eaten candy bars in your hands. Act surprised, and close the door. Open it again in a few seconds, and insist that you don’t have any candy.
18. Hand out cigarettes and bottles of asprin.
19. Put a crown on a pumpkin and put the pumpkin on a throne on your porch. Insist that all of the trick-or-treaters bow before the pumpkin.
20. Dress up like a bunny rabbit. Yell and curse from the moment you open the door, and angrily throw the candy at the trick-or-treaters. Slam the door when you’re finished.
ref: madnessmansion
