How Well Do You Know Your Halloween Facts

Parents wait on sidewalks as their little ones climb the steps of decorated homes to repeat chants for treats. A few short celebrated hours filled with fun, excitement, and mystery that inclement weather cannot deter, a magic that only happens on Halloween night.

Find out how much you know about Halloween trivia, Oh, and Happy Halloween.

1. Samhainophobia is an intense fear of Halloween
2. The traditional Halloween colours of orange and black are derived from… orange; the colours of fall harvest and black; the colour of death and darkness.
3. Besides orange, pumpkins come in blue, green, and white.
4. Each Halloween Charlie Brown would wait with his friend Linus for the Great Pumpkin to appear.
5. Trick or treating originated in Ireland. On Halloween night wealthy landowners gave food to the poor hoping that visiting ghosts of the night would see their good deeds and spare them from trouble
6. Next to Christmas, Halloween is the most celebrated and commercially successful holiday.
7. Chocolate bars are the number one favorite candy of trick-or-treaters.
8. The Tootsie Roll was the first "penny candy" to be sold with a wrapper.
9. One cup of raisins contains more sugar than one cup of candy.
10. In the US alone the sales of Halloween candy averages $1 billion dollars a year.
11. The largest pumpkin grown on record weighed in at 1,385 pounds.
12. Halloween superstition says if you stare into a mirror on Halloween night you will see the person you are going to marry.
13. In the city of New York, it is illegal to sell a house that is known to be haunted without telling the potential buyer.
14. Legend says that tattoos, a unibrow, and a long middle finger are all signs of a werewolf in human form.
15. Ancient Celtics wore masks and costumes as disguises so they would not be recognized as mortals by the spirits that roamed the towns and countryside on Halloween night.
16. Harry Houdini died on Halloween night in 1926. He told his wife that if there was a way to communicate with her from the other side, he would. Beatrice (Bess) Houdini held a séance each year on the anniversary of her husband's death but her efforts to contact her dead husband were unsuccessful. Bess never gave up hope until her own death in February 1943.

Please remember, when you are out celebrating Halloween be smart, be safe and have fun… Boo!