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Over the years, Blondie characters have been merchandised as dolls, coloring books, toys, salt and pepper shakers, paint sets, paper doll cutouts, coffee mugs, cookie jars, neckties, lunchboxes, puzzles, games, Halloween costumes, Christmas ornaments, music boxes, refrigerator magnets, lapel pinbacks, greeting cards, and other products.

Divination rituals such as the one depicted on this early-20th-century Halloween greeting card, where a woman stares into a mirror in a darkened room to catch a glimpse of the face of her future husband while a witch lurks in the shadows, may be one origin of the Bloody Mary legend.

This Halloween greeting card from 1904 satirises divination: the young woman hoping to see her future husband sees the reflection of a nearby portrait instead.

Every Halloween, Dabney House conducts the infamous " Millikan pumpkin-drop experiment " from the top of Millikan Library, the highest point on campus.

" He brought in Nick Castle, a friend from his film school days at University of Southern California who played " The Shape " in Halloween.

Historian Nicholas Rogers, exploring the origins of Halloween, notes that while " some folklorists have detected its origins in the Roman feast of Pomona, the goddess of fruits and seeds, or in the festival of the dead called Parentalia, it is more typically linked to the Celtic festival of Samhain, derived from the Old Irish Samuin meaning " summer's end ".

In addition the increasing popularity of Guy Fawkes Night ( 5 November ) from 1605 on saw Halloween become eclipsed in Britain with the notable exception of Scotland.

The imagery of Halloween is derived from many sources, including national customs, works of Gothic and horror literature ( such as the novels Frankenstein and Dracula ) and classic horror films ( such as Frankenstein and The Mummy ).

One of the earliest works on the subject of Halloween is from Scottish poet John Mayne, who, in 1780, made note of pranks at Halloween ; " What fearfu ' pranks ensue!

In Scotland and Ireland, Guising – children disguised in costume going from door to door for food or coins – is a traditional Halloween custom, and is recorded in Scotland at Halloween in 1895 where masqueraders in disguise carrying lanterns made out of scooped out turnips, visit homes to be rewarded with cakes, fruit and money.

All Halloween customs in the United States are borrowed directly or adapted from those of other countries ".

On Halloween of that year, the group promised to don a fan-selected " musical costume " by playing an entire album from another band.

Before the success of the midnight screenings, the film was withdrawn from its eight opening cities due to very small audiences, and its planned New York opening ( on Halloween night ) was cancelled.

The date of Samhain was later associated with the Catholic All Saints ' Day ( and later All Souls ' Day ) from at least the 8th century, and both the Gaelic and the Catholic liturgical festival have influenced the secular customs now connected with Halloween.

Guising — children disguised in costumes going from door to door for food and coins — also predates trick or treat, and is recorded in Scotland at Halloween in 1895, where masqueraders in disguise carrying lanterns made out of scooped out turnips, visit homes to be rewarded with cakes, fruit and money.

Although some popular histories of Halloween have characterized trick-or-treating as an adult invention to rechannel Halloween activities away from vandalism, there is very little records supporting it.

In Scotland and Ireland, " guising " — children going from house to house in disguise — is traditional, and a gift in the form of food, coins or " apples or nuts for the Halloween party " ( in more recent times chocolate ) is given out to the children dressed up in various costumes.

While going from door to door in disguise has remained popular among Scots and Irish at Halloween, saying " trick-or-treat " has become common.

Some organizations around the US sponsor a " Trunk-or-Treat " on Halloween night ( or on occasion, a day immediately preceding Halloween ), where trick-or-treating is done from parked car to parked car in a local parking lot, often at a church house.

A VH1 Pop-Up Video Halloween special even quoted Curry as saying he grew so unnerved by the fan attention from this role he became " chubby and plain " in order to escape it.

In a British context, the autumn ancestor festival corresponds to Halloween, which derives from the Celtic Samhain.

Costumed children sometimes go from house to house asking for treats in an imitation of American Halloween.

* Giant Phoenix puppet from 2001 NY Village Halloween Parade

Snap-Apple Night ( 1832 ) by Daniel Maclise. Depicts apple bobbing and divination games at a Halloween party in Blarney, Ireland.

Some games traditionally played at Halloween are forms of divination.

Seminary House is rumoured to be haunted, therefore, every Halloween, its residents transform the entire building into a Haunted House.

In the Anglosphere, most notably in Anglo-America, autumn is also associated with the Halloween season ( which in turn was influenced by Samhain, a Celtic autumn festival ), and with it a widespread marketing campaign that promotes it, in the U. S. A.

One storyline, which ran the week before Halloween in 1989 ( Oct 23 to Oct 28 ), is unique among Garfield strips in that it is not meant to be humorous.

In early times, horror films such as My Bloody Valentine ( 1981 ), Halloween ( 1978 ), and Friday the 13th ( 1980 ) pertained mostly to a male audience in order to " feed the fantasies of young men ".< ref name = Nowell > Their main focus was to express the fear of women and show them as monsters ; however, this ideal is no longer prevalent in horror films .< ref name = Williams > Women have become not only the main audience and fans of horror films but also the main protagonists of contemporary horror films.

Halloween or Hallowe ' en ( a contraction of its original title " All Hallows ' Evening "), also known as All Hallows ' Eve, is a yearly holiday observed around the world on October 31, the eve before the Western Christian feast of All Hallows.

The word Halloween was first used in the 16th century and represents a Scottish variant of the fuller All-Hallows '- Even (" evening "), that is, the night before All Hallows ' Day.

The Halloween holiday is commonly thought to have pagan roots, even though the etymology of the word is Christian.

Halloween is also thought to have been heavily influenced by the Christian holy days of All Saints ' Day ( also known as Hallowmas, All Hallows, and Hallowtide ) and All Souls ' Day.

The turnip has traditionally been used in Ireland and Scotland at Halloween, but immigrants to North America used the native pumpkin, which is both much softer and much larger – making it easier to carve than a turnip.

The American tradition of carving pumpkins is recorded in 1837 and was originally associated with harvest time in general, not becoming specifically associated with Halloween until the mid-to-late 19th century.

Trick-or-treating is a customary celebration for children on Halloween.

The practice of Guising at Halloween in North America is first recorded in 1911, where a newspaper in Kingston, Ontario reported children going " guising " around the neighborhood.

Mass transatlantic immigration in the 19th century popularized Halloween in North America, and celebration in the United States and Canada has had a significant impact on how the event is observed in other nations.

From time to time the Cockatoo is replaced with a more seasonal creature: a Turkey near Thanksgiving, a Raven near Halloween, et cetera.