halloween, n.Trivia

Halloween costumes, candy, and decorations cost Americans over $8 billion a year, or $92 per person

Trick-or-treating was a modification of Catholic 'souling' where poor children would go door-to-door dressed as spirits accepting food in exchange for prayers.

Harry Houdini died on Halloween, 1926

Halloween experiences a full moon only three to four times per century

Halloween is based on the Celtic tradition of dressing up as demons and spirts to disguise oneself from the real demons and spirits wandering the streets during Harvest.

Trick or Treating has existed since medieval times

Halloween is the second largest commercial holiday in the US (after Christmas).

Halloween candy is not all alike: 50% of children prefer chocolate, 24% prefer other candy, 10% gum.

Halloween is an Irish-Catholic bastardization of Samhain, where people wore costumes to ward off evil spirits at the end of harvest

Halloween candy has only been found to have been poisoned once; when it was given to a child by his own father