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Tales of Halloween was conceived by filmmaker Axelle Carolyn, who garnered a slew of directors to make a Halloween-centric film taking place in the "same town on the same night". [5] Carolyn was at a birthday party when she pitched the film to Adam Gierasch and Andrew Kasch.
With Adrienne Barbeau, Hunter Smit, Cameron Easton, Caroline Williams. Ten stories are woven together by their shared theme of Halloween night in an American suburb, where ghouls, imps, aliens and axe murderers appear for one night only to terrorize unsuspecting residents.
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- 2015-10-16
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- Ancient Times: Halloween Begins as Samhain
- 10th Century: Samhain Is Christianized
- The Middles Ages: Trick-Or-Treating Emerges
- 19th Century: Jack-O-Lanterns Take Shape
- 19th Century: Halloween Comes to America—and with It Comes Mischief
- Haunted Houses Become A Thing in The Us
- Halloween Costumes Go Mainstream
- Fears About Poisoned Halloween Candy Reach New Heights
Ancient Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom and northern France, marked Samhain at the midpoint between the fall equinox and the winter solstice. During this time of year, hearth fires in family homes were left to burn out while the harvest was gathered. After the harvest work was complete, celebrant...
In the 7th century, the Catholic Church established November 1 as All Saints' Day, a day commemorating all the saints of the church. By the 9th century, the influence of Christianityhad spread into Celtic lands, where it gradually blended with and supplanted older Celtic rites. In 1000 A.D., the church made November 2 All Souls’ Day, a day to honor...
In England and Ireland during All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day celebrations, poor people would visit the houses of wealthier families and receive pastries called soul cakes in exchange for a promise to pray for the souls of the homeowners’ dead relatives. Known as "souling," the practice was later taken up by children, who would go from door to d...
The practice of carving faces into vegetables became associated with Halloween in Ireland and Scotland around the 1800s. Jack-o-lanterns originated from an Irish myth about a man nicknamed “Stingy Jack,” who tricked the Devil and was forced to roam the earth with only a burning coal in a turnip to light his way. People began to make their own versi...
With the exception of Catholic-dominated Maryland and some other southern colonies, Halloween celebrations were extremely limited in early America, which was largely Protestant. It wasn't until the mid-19th century that new immigrants—especially the millions of Irish fleeing the Irish Potato Famine—helped popularize the celebration nationally. Thes...
Haunted or spooky public attractions already had some precedent in Europe. Starting in the 1800s, Marie Tussaud’s wax museum in London featured a “Chamber of Horrors” with decapitated figures from the French Revolution. In 1915, a British amusement ride manufacturer created an early haunted house, complete with dim lights, shaking floors and demoni...
Costumes and disguises have figured into Halloween celebrations since the holiday's earliest days. But it wasn't until the mid-20th century that costumes started to look like what we know them as today. Around the same time neighborhoods began organizing activities such as haunted houses to keep kids safe and occupied, costumes became more importan...
While in general the fears about poisoned Halloween candy have been overblown, crimes involving poison have occurred. The most infamous case took place on October 31, 1974. That’s when a Texas man named Ronald O’Bryan gave cyanide-laced pixie sticks to five children, including his son. The other children never ate the candy, but his eight-year-old ...
- A Fear of Vampires Spawned by Consumption. Vampire History. During the 19th century, the spread of tuberculosis, or consumption, claimed the lives of entire families in Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont and other parts of New England.
- Why Witches Fly on Brooms. History of Witches. The evil green-skinned witch flying on her magic broomstick may be a Halloween icon—and a well-worn stereotype.
- Why Haunted Houses Opened During the Great Depression. Halloween night mischief inspired communities to open haunted houses during the Great Depression.
- Jack-o-Lanterns and the Legend of 'Stingy Jack' The original Jack-o-lanterns were carved out of turnips. An Irish myth about a man nicknamed “Stingy Jack” is believed to have led to the tradition of carving scary faces into gourds.
Many famous tales in Irish mythology happened on Samhain including The Second Battle of Mag Tuired and The Adventures of Nera. The former sees the gods of the Celtic pantheon known as the Tuatha de Danann clash with their supernatural enemies called the Fomorians; the battle takes place over Samhain.
The origins of the Halloween holiday date back thousands of years. Here is the story of the traces of the original lore that remain and how we went from carving turnips in the British Isles to spending $3 billion on candy annually in the United States.
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It begins with the Celts celebrating Samhain 2,000 years ago and ends in 2020, with Americans spending more than $8 billion on Halloween candy and decorations. Stacker put together a chronological timeline of the history of Halloween.
