A cup of candy corn has fewer calories than a cup of raisins.
It's illegal to sell a haunted house in New York without informing the buyer. (We weren't informed?????!!!???)
Eighty-two percent of children take part in Halloween festivities, as do 67 percent of adults.
The first jack-o'-lanterns were made of turnips.
"Samhainophobia" is the morbid fear of Halloween.
Halloween the biggest holiday of the year when it comes to candy sales estimated at $1.93 billion. One quarter of all the candy sold each year is purchased between September 15 and November 10.
The word witch comes from the Saxon word wicca, which means "wise one."
Pumpkins also come in white, blue and green.
In France, more than 30,000 werewolf cases were tried between 1520 and 1630.
Trick-or-treating is an Irish tradition, based on a custom where wealthy landowners would give food to the poor on Halloween night, believing ghosts would look favorably on them for doing so and spare them from mischief.
In Romanian, Dracula means "Son of the Devil."
The Scots believed in "Samhanach," a goblin who came out only on Halloween and stole children.
Halloween costume sales are estimated at $1.5 billion.
Eighty percent of kids say their favorite Halloween candy is either chocolate or gum.
Pumpkins are fruits, not vegetables.
There is a poisonous mushroom called a jack-o'-lantern. These mushrooms are a bright orange-yellow in color and on rainy nights they appears to glow in the dark.
Fifty-one percent of all American adults believe in ghosts. Nine percent of Americans claim to have been in the presence of a ghost during their lifetime.
Americans consume about 20 million pounds of candy corn each year.
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Doing your own Hallowe'en magic, are you? Posting on Oct 30 when that's two days hence?!
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