Ten Most Popular Quotes About Halloween
Halloween or All Hallows Eve, originated from the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced sow-wen). Its name means summers end and marked the beginning of a new year in the Celtic calendar. At the festival Celtic druids appeased the spirits by leaving food outside their houses; they wore costumes to disguise themselves and frighten the spirits away.
The first celebration of Halloween in the United States was recorded in Anoka, Minnesota in 1921. The tradition of the Jack O' Lantern was adapted from the old British practice of carving out turnips and potatoes and lighting them for their Halloween gatherings.
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— Linus Van Pelt in It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
"A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween."
— Erma Bombeck
— Jean Baudrillard
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"Double, double toil and trouble / Fire burn, and cauldron bubble."
— William Shakespeare, Macbeth
"If there's somethin' strange in your neighborhood / Who ya gonna call?"
— Ray Parker Jr., Theme to Ghostbusters
"Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain."
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1998)
"Hold on, man. We don't go anywhere with 'scary', 'spooky', 'haunted', or 'forbidden' in the title."
— Matthew Lillard as Shaggy in Scooby-Doo (2002)
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"Never laugh at live dragons."
— J.R.R. Tolkien, in The Hobbit (1937)
"Fear has many eyes and can see things underground."
— Miguel de Cervantes, from Don Quixote
"Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story."
— Mason Cooley