How to you celebrate halloween, or do you celebrate?

Question

If you dont celebrate explain why. And if you do then give me deatail. Are you a witch, I am so fascinated with witches, so is my daughter who says she is one. Do you do anything special like a party or haunted houses? Do not refrain from using many words

Answer 1

I have kids who are interested in getting into the film industry, especially special FX, so Halloween has become our time to howl, so to speak.

We live in an area that has 2 towns close together, with trick-or-treating on different nights. This is perfect. On our trick-or-treat night, we stay home and pass out candy. Of course we are dressed to the hilt, normally as zombies. In the last few years we have learned how to make realistic bullet wounds and brain matter, so this is always a hit. One of us usually has an amputated limb, with gristle and gore hanging. I usually have an eye prosthetic which allows me to appear as if I am lacking an eye, or have a gruesome orbital injury.

I have already woven the spider-webs in my apple trees, and there are severed body parts scattered about (these are all hand crafted). At the foot of my driveway there is a scarecrow that moves when anyone nears, and a graveyard for serial and movie killers. We have fashioned finger knives, and they are coming out of Freddy Krueger's grave.

On trick-or-treat night for my kids, we once again do the zombie make-up. Again, I am usually the one missing an eye and a limb..usually my left arm...while I give the kids gruesome head wounds. Last year my youngest went trick-or-treating as if he had been disembowled.

When we have finished collecting our treats, we head to McDonald's for a bite to eat before going home. This is always a blast, because the entire town shows up there and everyone is in costume.

When we get home, we watch scary movies all night long. If the next day should happen to be a school day, we skip it. It's the only skip day I allow them each year, and I feel that a family tradition that will soon be outgrown should not be ignored.

Obviously, we live for Halloween.

Answer 2

I am not sure if I am a witch or not - I am very wiccan

The usual stuff at parties - food, drink.....look at some of the small Halloween cookbooks out there. They have freat recipes....

Here is one for "pumpkin" cheese balls. Get some orange cheese that can be molded (any flavor you want). Get some twisted pretzel sticks and break in half.

Mold about two tablespoons orange cheese into balls and flatten the bottom. With a toothpick, make lines from top to bottm, so that it looks like a pumpkin. stick the end of the pretzel stick into the top of the cheese "pumpkin" and you have little hors d'oeuvres.

Costume parties are great - the whole idea behind costumes is that in the "olden days", people wore masks so that the evil spirits couldn't recognize them.

Wear all white - safety pin a yellow felt circle to your middle and wear devil horns and carry a trident - voila! You are a deviled egg!!!

Haunted houses with different room - wonderful! Get some rubber snakes for one room and attach to a fishing line - have a couple of people working them, so when guests walk by, they see the snakes "slithering" around. Best to have that room lit only by night lights to make the effect more real. (don't let them see the string)

Have someone tell ghost stories with the lights out - and just a flashlight under their chin.

These are just some ideas. Search Halloween party, halloween costumes, etc on the web

Answer 3

usually just the normal American way. When I was young I had a couple of memorable halloween parties with school kids and cousins. We always dressed up, played games, made halloween themed food. Then when I was a little older we actually made 2 different spook houses in our house that we led people through. I acted in both of them along with cousins, relatives...It was the talk of the town! But we lived in a very small town and there was nothing else for the neighborhood kids to do. But our spook houses were very good, very creative. We took a lot from scary movies we've seen. My mom brought us up on scary movies, so we always watch extra doses of them around halloween. Now that I'm an adult, I still want to dress up but once I get the costume on, it's kinda like, okay that was fun now I'll change into my pajamas!

Answer 4

Yes we have Halloween
we do the house all up
carve pumpkins
go trick or treating I go out with the kids and hubby stays home and hands out treats
the kids do a party at school
We love Halloween - It's fun to get all dressed up silly - all 3 girls are going as witches this year

Answer 5

In our home we celebrate the harvest holiday "Samhain". We decorate our home for autumn, give offerings of food and drink to our deities, honor our ancestors and loved ones who have passed away, prepare our yard for winter, and feast on seasonal treats. We consider this to be the end of summer and the beginning of the dark half of the year.

We give out candy for the children who come by but we consider that secular rather than religious. This is a good article by a respected scholar in Celtic studies about the history of Samhain:
http://snlemons.iweb.bsu.edu/docs/Celtic/Samhain.pdf

Answer 6

i do not comprehend the position you've been doing all of your analyze notwithstanding it is clearly no longer with something written by technique of any historian of be conscious. am i able to signify the books written by technique of Ronald Hutton, Professor of historic previous at Bristol college, England and a pro in pre-Christian eu paganism? really "Stations of the sunlight". Hutton is a pagan sympathiser yet notwithstanding concludes that. a million. Halloween originated because the Eve of All Saints Day and there is no historic data of any pagan effect., 2. Easter is Christian and it is uncertain that there ever replaced right into a goddess called "Eostre" or "Ostara". 3. The date of Christmas replaced into settled lengthy before Christianity reached Norse lands. The date replaced into set in Rome the position none of this replaced into of any value. in spite of everything, yuletide might want to be celebrated any time between early December and previous due January. The association with Christmas handed off because kings and nobles moved their "yuletide" banquet to Christmas. the reason some Christians, really in the country, do not celebrate Halloween is puritanism. at the same time as to blame, puritans attacked truly some Catholic stuff - consisting of All Saints and its Eve. all of us who carried on celebrating replaced into denounced as a devil worshipper, a witch or a pagan. no longer authentic, in basic terms propaganda yet nevertheless widely believed.

Answer 7

Samhain is the most holy time of the year for Wiccans. It is the "new year," when the Wheel of the Year has completed another cycle and is ready to begin again. I usually use it as a time of contemplation and meditation. It is very peaceful, and very powerful at the same time.

Answer 8

I don't usually do much for Halloween except decorate and pass out candy to the kids. In my faith we do honor the Daemons (divine intelligences) of death during this time of year and erect altars to remember and honor our anscestors and loved ones. I also participate in Day of the Dead celebrations with friends of mine the first week of November.

Answer 9

Make your own haunted house. Doing that is not only fun, but you can get a chance to experience how to do it. If your daughter is young, then try no to do it too scary.

Answer 10

I am going to go to my university Hallowen event. Like every year, I will dress up as a witch. I will wear a long black dress, a black hat, long nails, lots of liquid eyeliner and maybe a black wig.