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Halloween
Halloween (or Hallowe'en) is an annual holiday observed on October 31, which commonly includes activities such as trick-or-treating, attending costume parties, carving jack-o'-lanterns, bonfires, apple bobbing, visiting haunted attractions, playing pranks, telling scary stories, and watching horror films.
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At Bealltainn, or May Day, every effort was made to scare away the fairies, who were particularly dreaded at this season. In the West Highlands charms were used to avert their influence. In the Isle of Man the gorse was set alight to keep them at a distance. In some parts of Ireland the house was sprinkled with holy water to ward off fairy influence. These are only a mere handful out of the large number of references available, but they seem to me to reveal an effort to avoid the attentions of d
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― British Fairy Origins
― British Fairy Origins
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I met this six-year-old child, with this blank, pale, emotionless face, and the blackest eyes... the devil's eyes."
~Dr. Sam Loomis/Halloween
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― Halloween: A Screenplay
― Halloween: A Screenplay
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