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TRIVIA TODAY - October 29, 2014
Greetings Infomaniacs, Halloween is just a couple of days away! I'm super excited to take my godson trick-or-treating, and not just because he always shares some of his candy with me. Hahaha...
In all seriousness, I've been taking him since he was old enough to walk, and now that he's nine, I'm a little worried he's not going to want to go with me soon. Guess I better enjoy it (and the free candy) while it lasts!
Enjoy!
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GopherArchives Questions? Comments? Email Melissa WHO SAID IT?QUOTE: 'Tis the night - the night
Of the grave's delight,
And the warlocks are at their play;
Ye think that without
The wild winds shout,
But no, it is they - it is they."
HINT: (1818-1896), was the second Episcopal bishop of Western New York.
RANDOM TIDBITSHalloween, also known as All Hallows' Eve, can be traced back about 2,000 years to a pre-Christian Celtic festival held around Nov. 1 called Samhain (pronounced "sah-win"), which means "summer's end" in Gaelic.
Samhain was an annual communal meeting at the end of the harvest year, a time to gather resources for the winter months and bring animals back from the pastures.
The tradition of dressing in costumes and trick-or-treating may go back to the practice of "mumming" and "guising," in which people would disguise themselves and go door-to-door, asking for food. The practice may also be related to the medieval custom of "souling" in Britain and Ireland, when poor people would knock on doors on Hallowmas (Nov. 1), asking for food in exchange for prayers for the dead.
Trick-or-treating didn't start in the United States until World War II, but American kids were known to go out on Thanksgiving and ask for food - a practice known as Thanksgiving begging.
Apples are associated with Halloween, both as a treat and in the game of bobbing for apples, a game that since the colonial era in America was used for fortune-telling. Legend has it that the first person to pluck an apple from the water-filled bucket without using his or her hands would be the first to marry.
Another Halloween ritual involved looking in a mirror at midnight by candlelight, for a future husband's face was said to appear. (A scary variation of this later became the "Bloody Mary" ritual familiar to many schoolgirls.)
(www.livescience.com)
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WHO SAID IT?QUOTE: 'Tis the night - the night
Of the grave's delight,
And the warlocks are at their play;
Ye think that without
The wild winds shout,
But no, it is they - it is they."
ANSWER: Arthur Cleveland Coxe.
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