Spooky Halloween Superstitions

There is much more than a Halloween only trick or treatment superstitions and Halloween snacks! Halloween began with a long history of superstitions, elves and witches and folklore and fantasy.

Halloween as we know it today, originated from a history very específica.Muchos countries hold some kind of Halloween - it is simply not only a day of celebration of Hallmark States approached with.

Such a Halloween superstition is that in the days olden (very olden days) a woman in search of a husband would put a sprig of Romero and a Sixpence under his pillow on Halloween night.Superstition was that she could dream of her future husband that night!

What other superstitions Halloween? there are some that are interesting and fun to read about (13 superstition to be exact!)

¿1.Cats know that old superstition Halloween that said black cats are bad luck? Thus, once believed that all cats with a black coat were really the devil, or eaten by evil spirits.

In the middle ages, black cats were hunted and burnt at Easter.(poor kittens little!) However, today, many families have black cats as pets and do not give a second thought.I guess overcame us this superstition! well, my kitty is little black and would move mountains before it would be that someone come and try and hunt her down!

Here is exactly the opposite of the superstition of black cat halloween: in Britain believe that white cats are bad luck!

2. Nuts is another old superstition British Halloween, consider that Satan was a collector of nut, therefore, on the night of Halloween, nuts were used as magic charms.

3. Candles was an old proverb that says, if you turn off the flame of a candle and becomes Halloween, you then have a ghost visit you!I bet that was a great tactic to keep children "scared directly!"

4. Witches Halloween this superstition is about those ugly witch! Here is how: some people said if puts his imply clothes and then walked back on the night of Halloween, then at midnight, would be a witch riding on the sky.

Witches have such a long and interesting history, which would lead to another Web site to talk about them, but some people believed that witches were the devil.The tests were designed to see if a woman was a witch or not.

Fearful of crowds that launch a woman suspected of being a witch by pulling her agua.Si body she floated, definitely was a witch (YIKES!)(I think that at that time, nobody knew that women float naturally with better than men!)If she died, it was not a witch (sheesh! not a great scenario for these poor women!)

5. Bells when you ring a Bell on Halloween, all fear, evil spirits will fly. Includes doorbells? think how many Get stepping stone on the night of Halloween!

6. Owls Owls parading used to scare a lot of people.Some people believed that on Halloween, owls dive down and eat the souls of one die that night.Therefore, if you hear an owl hooting, quickly tire pocket and leave colgado.A then you would be safe diving owls.(What imagination!)

7. Celtic Custom here is a superstition Ol ' really good...On Halloween, bonfire was built and view until it came out.The ashes were then used to make a great circle where all families in the village would place a stone just within the next day, if any stone is moved círculo.al or damaged after of someone understood in the sense of family would die over the next year.

8. Bats if a bat flies in your home, be careful! you might have some ghosts or spirits visit!

9. More information about bats O, on the night of Halloween, if you see a bat pass around early afternoon, then you will have good weather the next day.

10. And a little more about bats and finally but not least spookily if bats fly around from his home on the night of Halloween 3 times, death is inevitable.

11.?Away bad spirits want yourself undoing is all evils? just walk back around his house three times before the Sun on halloween and would banish all evil.(if only it were so simple!)

12. Stop more...You can bury bones of animals in his front yard (I think it is against the law now!).Or, put a picture of an animal outside near the door.

13. SPIDERS!If you see a spider Halloween (what are the chances?) the spirit of a loved one is watching over you.(this is my favorite superstition...)