Halloween

In Today's Issue


Halloween
Did you Know
That's Amaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazing
Random Joke of the Day
Funny Fobia
Word of the Day
Finish with a Song

Halloween

  

Ghosts and Goolies

Spirits and spooks

Scared of stiffies

Ectoplasm pukes

Bumps in the 

night

And Vampire

Bites

A Werewolf's 

Howl

It loosens my

Bowel

And the worse one

yet

What makes a cold

sweat

When I think of

the twist

None of you

exist !

Trick or treating comes from the Middle-Age practice of the poor dressing up in costumes and going around door to door during Hallowmas begging for food or money in exchange for prayers. The food given was often a Soul Cake, which was a small round cake which represented a soul being freed from Purgatory when the cake was eaten.

Halloween is also know by other names:
All Hallows Eve
Samhain
All Hallowtide
The Feast of the Dead
The Day of the Dead

The owl is a popular Halloween animal. In Medieval Europe, owls were thought to be witches, and to hear an owl's call meant someone was about to die.

Halloween was brought to North America by immigrants from Europe who would celebrate the harvest around a bonfire, share ghost stories, sing, dance and tell fortunes.

Orange and black are Halloween colours because orange is associated with the Fall harvest and black is associated with darkness and death.

Jack o lanterns originated in Ireland where people placed candles in hollowed-out turnips to keep away spirits and ghosts on the Samhain holiday.

A pumpkin is a berry in the cucurbitaceae family, which also includes melons, cucumbers, squash and gourds. All these plants are native to the Americas.

World's Heaviest Pumpkin Tips the Scales at 2,096 Pounds. MAINZ, Germany — A Swiss gardener has grown the world's heaviest pumpkin — and it weighs almost as much as a small car. Beni Meier, 30, had to use a special vehicle to transport the fruit, which tipped the scales at 2,096.6 lbs.

Costume party. Host: What are you? Me: A harp Host: Ur costume's too small to be a harp. Me: Are you calling me a lyre?

Funny Fobia

Samhainophobia is an intense fear of Halloween.

Extramundane

outside or beyond the physical world

Finish with a Song

This is Will Smith with Nightmare on my Street