Actually our modern halloween combines catholic traditions with mexico's
Circa De Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) which, for those unfamiliar with it, involves a parade of skulls and skeletons to honor the deceased and make "light" of death as something inevitable and natural. Those who consider halloween a "satanic" holiday are as misinformed as those who call pokemon satanic. Even the satanists themselves lay claim to halloween, but not a one of its traditions has anything to do with them...they're just being idiots.
Anyway, I was born ON halloween (probably the whole reason I'm a horror/monster nut...), so it's an extra special day to me. And y'know something? I haven't stopped trick or treating yet and this year I'll be freaking
TWENTY. Man, I feel like a geezer here. (Of course, my girlfriend still does to usually and she's three years older....)
Maybe I won't this year, but that's just because I know of some great costume contests and stuff that might be a better way to show off my bizarre outfits. This year I'm taking a red sheet, painting eyes and black veins ALLLL over it, and cutting a slit down the middle, under which I'll be carrying a large, inflatable rubber eyeball to poke out and animate and stuff. I'm sure I'll get tons of people asking what I'm "from", though, as if a made-up monster is just unheard of. Course, if I use a black sheet, I'll basically be a "Shoggoth" from the literary works of late horror author H. P. Lovecraft...maybe I'll just do that.
Also, my girlfriend is going to take me to Jason's Woods this year. It opened, interestingly enough, just before I was born. I've seen tons of posters/pamphlets for it every year of my life and still haven't gone......it's apparently the biggest, most professional haunted hayride and haunted house attraction in all of america. A $20 ticket gets you the hayride, haunted house/barn, labyrinth, cheesy 3-d show about evil clowns (AAGGGHH!!) and a museum of various creepy things. There's also little extra corny things like sumo wrestling shows and lawnmower drag races or something.
I hope there's a gift shop of cheap doo-dads! Every halloween I collect tons of weird little scary toys and stuff...you know, like rubber bats, glow-in-the-dark skeletons, halloween plushes and windup toys...even pet toys! I couldn't resist buying
THIS last year even though it's a dog toy :P ....he's just so cool! You have to be cool to have a button of yourself smoking in a top hat, you know. He also has a bat-shaped cracked hole in his skull, as if a bat crashed through his head. :laugh: