2008 Woodie Awards
A College Guide To Halloween
Too old to trick or treat? Try these alternatives.
Karina Mc Cabe
Issue date: 10/29/04 Section: Features
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Watch Scary Movies
1. Silence of the lambs
2. Psycho
3. The Ring
4. The Shining
5. The Birds
6. Dracula
7. The Sixth Sense
8. The Skulls
9. The Adams Family
10. Hocus Pocus
11. Ghostbusters
12. Blair Witch Project
13. Dawn of the Dead
14. The Faculty
15. The Exorcist
16. Carrie
17. Practical Magic
18.Contact
19. Frankenstein
20. Beetlejuice
21. Nightmare on Elm Street
22. House on Haunted Hill
Watch Television
The History Channel is having a "History of Halloween" special this weekend:
1. The Haunted History of Halloween - Sunday, October 31 at 7pm.
2. Witch Hunt - Sunday, October 31 at 8pm.
Go To The Theatre
The Rocky Horror Picture Show is playing at Theatre Downtown (2113 N Orange Ave) and in City Walk.
Play Divination Games
Learn how to predict the future with tarot cardsor have your palms read!
Carve a Pumpkin
Go to www.pumpkin-carving.com for some great tips!
Tell Ghost Stories
Go to www.halloweenghoststories.com for some ideas!
How Others Celebrate
Ireland
"Oidhche Shamhna"
1. Huge bonfires are lit in every neighborhood, and many compete to have the largest bonfire. This is in commemoration of the bonfires that Druids lit on the Hill of Tara about 2,000 years ago.
2. Fireworks: These are usually lit when people are gathered around the bonfires.
3. "Trick-or-Treat:" Children dress up in costumes and knock on doors requesting treats.
4. "Snap-Apple:" A party game that occurs after trick-or-treating and bonfire celebrations are over. Here, children attempt to bite an apple on a string that is suspended from a doorframe.
5. "Knick-Knacks:" Children run around and knock on doors, but they run away before anyone can answer them.
6. Eat Barnbrack: A kind of fruitcake that contains a ring inside of it. Whoever bites into the slice with a ring inside will soon be wed.
7. Carve scary faces into turnips and walk around requesting a "penny for the pookah" (an Irish mythological boogeyman).
England
"Guy-Fawkes Day"
1. Their holiday is actually November 5, and it is in remembrance of the execution of a Catholic, Guy Fawkes, who attempted to blow up the British Parliament building (1605 AD) in order to try and remove the protestant King James Stuart from power.
2. Bonfires: known as "bone fires" where the bones symbolize those of the Pope.
1. Silence of the lambs
2. Psycho
3. The Ring
4. The Shining
5. The Birds
6. Dracula
7. The Sixth Sense
8. The Skulls
9. The Adams Family
10. Hocus Pocus
11. Ghostbusters
12. Blair Witch Project
13. Dawn of the Dead
14. The Faculty
15. The Exorcist
16. Carrie
17. Practical Magic
18.Contact
19. Frankenstein
20. Beetlejuice
21. Nightmare on Elm Street
22. House on Haunted Hill
Watch Television
The History Channel is having a "History of Halloween" special this weekend:
1. The Haunted History of Halloween - Sunday, October 31 at 7pm.
2. Witch Hunt - Sunday, October 31 at 8pm.
Go To The Theatre
The Rocky Horror Picture Show is playing at Theatre Downtown (2113 N Orange Ave) and in City Walk.
Play Divination Games
Learn how to predict the future with tarot cardsor have your palms read!
Carve a Pumpkin
Go to www.pumpkin-carving.com for some great tips!
Tell Ghost Stories
Go to www.halloweenghoststories.com for some ideas!
How Others Celebrate
"Oidhche Shamhna"
1. Huge bonfires are lit in every neighborhood, and many compete to have the largest bonfire. This is in commemoration of the bonfires that Druids lit on the Hill of Tara about 2,000 years ago.
2. Fireworks: These are usually lit when people are gathered around the bonfires.
3. "Trick-or-Treat:" Children dress up in costumes and knock on doors requesting treats.
4. "Snap-Apple:" A party game that occurs after trick-or-treating and bonfire celebrations are over. Here, children attempt to bite an apple on a string that is suspended from a doorframe.
5. "Knick-Knacks:" Children run around and knock on doors, but they run away before anyone can answer them.
6. Eat Barnbrack: A kind of fruitcake that contains a ring inside of it. Whoever bites into the slice with a ring inside will soon be wed.
7. Carve scary faces into turnips and walk around requesting a "penny for the pookah" (an Irish mythological boogeyman).
"Guy-Fawkes Day"
1. Their holiday is actually November 5, and it is in remembrance of the execution of a Catholic, Guy Fawkes, who attempted to blow up the British Parliament building (1605 AD) in order to try and remove the protestant King James Stuart from power.
2. Bonfires: known as "bone fires" where the bones symbolize those of the Pope.