October 24, 2017
Halloween Tricks, Treats, and Trivia
It’s the most SPOOKtacular time of the year! Let’s celebrate with some CREEPY and SPOOKY-GOOD Trivia.
- At one time it was customary to perform dances, songs, prayers, and plays in order to receive their treats.
- Since it’s invention is 1898, candy corn has been, and continues to be, wildly popular! Today, nearly 35 million pounds of candy corn are produced each year.
- Harry Houdini, American’s favorite magician, fittingly, died on October 31, 1926.
- Halloween is big business – it’s the second-largest commercial holiday in America.
- Tootsie Rolls were the first wrapped penny candy in America
- Jack o’ Lanterns originated in Ireland where people placed candles in hollowed out turnips to keep away spirits and ghosts.
- Ancient Celts thought that spirits and ghosts roamed the countryside on Halloween night. They began wearing masks and costumes to avoid being recognized as human.
- Bobbing for apples is thought to have originated from the Roman harvest festival that honors Pamona, the goddess of fruit trees.
- San Francisco is the Number 1 US city for Trick or Treating.
- 86% of Americans decorate their house for Halloween
- Over 10% of pet owners dress their pets in Halloween costumes.
- The pumpkin originated in Mexico over 9,000 years ago
- Bobby “Boris” Pickett composed The Monster Mash in 1962
- The first citywide celebration of Halloween was in Anoka, MN in 1921
- The phrase “I got a rock” became of the most famous lines from It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, and in all of the Peanuts franchise