SPOOKY TRADITIONS
True or Fake?
START
01
During the Ghost month, it's common to serve meals at the table with an empty chair for each dead family member.
china
TRUE
FAKE
IT'S TRUE!
In Chinese culture, the seventh month is called the Ghost Month, which is the time when the spirits of ancestors come to Earth. The festivities may include burning incense and joss paper, offering them delicious foods and releasing miniature paper boats and lanterns on water to give directions to the lost ghosts and spirits.
next
02
It is illegal on Halloween to wear clown costumes or makeup if you are more than 12 years old.
vendragues (france)
TRUE
FAKE
IT'S TRUE!
Years back, there was some problem with clowns in Vendragues, France. Now it is illegal on Halloween to wear clown costumes or makeup if you are more than 12 years old. And the prohibition also includes November.
next
03
The most typical dinner on Halloween includes spiders that they serve with a very sweet sauce.
pakistan
TRUE
FAKE
IT'S FAKE!
next
04
People welcome the new year by sleeping in the cemetery near the graves of their deceased relatives.
chile
TRUE
FAKE
IT'S TRUE!
According to the tradition, relatives return to their graves to celebrate the end of the old year. That’s why people come to sleep near the graves. They light fireworks to please their families, decorate the graves of their ancestors well and after partying, they sleep by putting a bed near the grave.
next
05
On Halloween, everybody dresses up in vampire costumes and eat meals that are cooked with animal blood.
Transylvania (romania)
TRUE
FAKE
IT'S FAKE!
next
06
There is a traiditonal Halloween bread which has got objects inside and tells you about your future.
ireland
TRUE
FAKE
IT'S TRUE!
Barmbrack is a tasty Irish bread, filled with dried fruit and often filled with objects, usually a ring or a coin. In the 18th Century, they contained a ring, a pea, a stick, a coin, and a rag. If you were served the slice containing a ring, you would get married soon. The pea meant the opposite: no weddings for you, and the stick foretold a troubled marriage. The rag predicted a life of poverty for the recipient and the coin meant that you would become rich.
next
07
Trick-or-treating is illegal for teenagers.
virginia (usa)
TRUE
FAKE
IT'S TRUE!
In parts of Virginia, anyone 13 or older who goes trick-or-treating can be sent to jail for up to six months.
next
08
Every Halloween people gather to try to find the Loch Ness Monster.
scotland
TRUE
FAKE
IT'S FAKE!
next
09
There is a temple full of rats where they are workshipped.
Rajasthan (india)
TRUE
FAKE
IT'S TRUE!
At Karni Mata temple in Rajasthan.rats are workshipped and considered the holy descendants of the Hindu goddess Durga. Inside the temple there're rats everywhere and huge saucers of milk to feed them. Be careful, because if you step on one rat and kill it, you will have to replace it with a rat made of gold!
next
10
People leave bread and water for the spirits before they go to bed.
austria
TRUE
FAKE
IT'S TRUE!
Halloween in Austria is celebrated from October 30 to November 8 and it’s called "Seleenwoche” (All Souls' Week). During this celebration people pray to their dead relatives. Before going to sleep people leave turned on lamp, bread and water. It’s believed that cosmic energy opens the curtain between the world of dead an alive people. Food left next to their beds is a welcome to ghosts.
next
11
If you have a nightmare on Halloween it means that you will have good luck during the next 12 months.
south africa
TRUE
FAKE
IT'S FAKE!
next
12
On Halloween, the skeleton of a horse head is affixed to a pole and carried through town with a white bedsheet.
wales
TRUE
FAKE
IT'S TRUE!
Mari Lwyd is one of the best traditions of Halloween in Europe. The person under the bedsheet carries the pole and acts like the dead horse. At the same time, they try to beat other people in a game of wit and poetry.
next
12
In November there is a day in which the dead are said to come to life and take the streets, so people stay inside their houses to get out of their way.
russia
TRUE
FAKE
IT'S FAKE!
next
13
On Halloween, people will hide all the knives in their homes to make sure the ghosts don't hurt themselves
germany
TRUE
FAKE
IT'S TRUE!
In Germany, all knives are hidden in fear of the souls of the dead returning to earth for Halloween. It is said that this tradition protects both the living and the dead from the harm associated with the use of these dangerous tools.
next
14
Since the 1990s, every Halloween people gather to sing and dance to Michael Jackson's "Thriller" dressed as zombies.
tORONTO,CANADA
TRUE
FAKE
IT'S FAKE!
next
15
In the fall, young men dress as goats and go door to door “asking” for food and alcohol.
finland
TRUE
FAKE
IT'S TRUE!
In Finland, Nuutinpäivä is when young men dressed as a goat visit houses. Usually the dress is an inverted fur jacket, a leather mask, and horns. Men went from house to house, came in, and typically demanded food from the household, especially alcoholic beverages. In Finland, tradition is still alive in areas of Satakunta, Southwest Finland and Ostrobothnia.
next
16
On Halloween, people avoid eating the favourite foods of their deceased relatives so when they come they can have bigger portions.
new zealand
TRUE
FAKE
IT'S FAKE!
next
17
People peel apples to predict the future on Halloween.
United kingdom
TRUE
FAKE
IT'S TRUE!
Although this tradition isn’t very popular in 2020, it hasn’t completely died out. On Halloween, people peel an apple and then throw a slice of the peel behind them. The slice of a peel will curl into a shape on the floor and whatever letter shape it makes will be the first initial of any future spouse.
next
18
Legend has it that if you don't give children candy on Halloween an ugly monster will appear at your home the following day.
italy
TRUE
FAKE
IT'S FAKE!
next
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SPOOKY TRADITIONS
True or Fake?
START
01
During the Ghost month, it's common to serve meals at the table with an empty chair for each dead family member.
china
TRUE
FAKE
IT'S TRUE!
In Chinese culture, the seventh month is called the Ghost Month, which is the time when the spirits of ancestors come to Earth. The festivities may include burning incense and joss paper, offering them delicious foods and releasing miniature paper boats and lanterns on water to give directions to the lost ghosts and spirits.
next
02
It is illegal on Halloween to wear clown costumes or makeup if you are more than 12 years old.
vendragues (france)
TRUE
FAKE
IT'S TRUE!
Years back, there was some problem with clowns in Vendragues, France. Now it is illegal on Halloween to wear clown costumes or makeup if you are more than 12 years old. And the prohibition also includes November.
next
03
The most typical dinner on Halloween includes spiders that they serve with a very sweet sauce.
pakistan
TRUE
FAKE
IT'S FAKE!
next
04
People welcome the new year by sleeping in the cemetery near the graves of their deceased relatives.
chile
TRUE
FAKE
IT'S TRUE!
According to the tradition, relatives return to their graves to celebrate the end of the old year. That’s why people come to sleep near the graves. They light fireworks to please their families, decorate the graves of their ancestors well and after partying, they sleep by putting a bed near the grave.
next
05
On Halloween, everybody dresses up in vampire costumes and eat meals that are cooked with animal blood.
Transylvania (romania)
TRUE
FAKE
IT'S FAKE!
next
06
There is a traiditonal Halloween bread which has got objects inside and tells you about your future.
ireland
TRUE
FAKE
IT'S TRUE!
Barmbrack is a tasty Irish bread, filled with dried fruit and often filled with objects, usually a ring or a coin. In the 18th Century, they contained a ring, a pea, a stick, a coin, and a rag. If you were served the slice containing a ring, you would get married soon. The pea meant the opposite: no weddings for you, and the stick foretold a troubled marriage. The rag predicted a life of poverty for the recipient and the coin meant that you would become rich.
next
07
Trick-or-treating is illegal for teenagers.
virginia (usa)
TRUE
FAKE
IT'S TRUE!
In parts of Virginia, anyone 13 or older who goes trick-or-treating can be sent to jail for up to six months.
next
08
Every Halloween people gather to try to find the Loch Ness Monster.
scotland
TRUE
FAKE
IT'S FAKE!
next
09
There is a temple full of rats where they are workshipped.
Rajasthan (india)
TRUE
FAKE
IT'S TRUE!
At Karni Mata temple in Rajasthan.rats are workshipped and considered the holy descendants of the Hindu goddess Durga. Inside the temple there're rats everywhere and huge saucers of milk to feed them. Be careful, because if you step on one rat and kill it, you will have to replace it with a rat made of gold!
next
10
People leave bread and water for the spirits before they go to bed.
austria
TRUE
FAKE
IT'S TRUE!
Halloween in Austria is celebrated from October 30 to November 8 and it’s called "Seleenwoche” (All Souls' Week). During this celebration people pray to their dead relatives. Before going to sleep people leave turned on lamp, bread and water. It’s believed that cosmic energy opens the curtain between the world of dead an alive people. Food left next to their beds is a welcome to ghosts.
next
11
If you have a nightmare on Halloween it means that you will have good luck during the next 12 months.
south africa
TRUE
FAKE
IT'S FAKE!
next
12
On Halloween, the skeleton of a horse head is affixed to a pole and carried through town with a white bedsheet.
wales
TRUE
FAKE
IT'S TRUE!
Mari Lwyd is one of the best traditions of Halloween in Europe. The person under the bedsheet carries the pole and acts like the dead horse. At the same time, they try to beat other people in a game of wit and poetry.
next
12
In November there is a day in which the dead are said to come to life and take the streets, so people stay inside their houses to get out of their way.
russia
TRUE
FAKE
IT'S FAKE!
next
13
On Halloween, people will hide all the knives in their homes to make sure the ghosts don't hurt themselves
germany
TRUE
FAKE
IT'S TRUE!
In Germany, all knives are hidden in fear of the souls of the dead returning to earth for Halloween. It is said that this tradition protects both the living and the dead from the harm associated with the use of these dangerous tools.
next
14
Since the 1990s, every Halloween people gather to sing and dance to Michael Jackson's "Thriller" dressed as zombies.
tORONTO,CANADA
TRUE
FAKE
IT'S FAKE!
next
15
In the fall, young men dress as goats and go door to door “asking” for food and alcohol.
finland
TRUE
FAKE
IT'S TRUE!
In Finland, Nuutinpäivä is when young men dressed as a goat visit houses. Usually the dress is an inverted fur jacket, a leather mask, and horns. Men went from house to house, came in, and typically demanded food from the household, especially alcoholic beverages. In Finland, tradition is still alive in areas of Satakunta, Southwest Finland and Ostrobothnia.
next
16
On Halloween, people avoid eating the favourite foods of their deceased relatives so when they come they can have bigger portions.
new zealand
TRUE
FAKE
IT'S FAKE!
next
17
People peel apples to predict the future on Halloween.
United kingdom
TRUE
FAKE
IT'S TRUE!
Although this tradition isn’t very popular in 2020, it hasn’t completely died out. On Halloween, people peel an apple and then throw a slice of the peel behind them. The slice of a peel will curl into a shape on the floor and whatever letter shape it makes will be the first initial of any future spouse.
next
18
Legend has it that if you don't give children candy on Halloween an ugly monster will appear at your home the following day.
italy
TRUE
FAKE
IT'S FAKE!
next