Welcome foolish mortals to your Halloween journey dating back 2,000 years!
- Welcome foolish mortals to your Halloween journey dating back 2,000 years!
- Samhain
- Snap-Apple Night shows a Halloween party in Blarney, Ireland in 1832. The young children on the right bob for apples and a couple in the center play Snap-Apple, which involves retrieving an apple hanging from a string. The couples at left play divination games. These games remain popular today at all Irish Halloween parties.
- Pomona - Roman godess of the harvest with her apples
- In this Halloween greeting card, circa 1904, divination is depicted with this young lady looking into a mirror in a darkened room in hopes to catch a glimpse of the face of her future husband.
- An Irish turnip jack-o'-lantern - the very first incarnation of today's Halloween tradition.
- Jack-O'-Lanterns have come a long way!
- And they have become one of the most recognizable images of Halloween.
- Haunted cemetery on Halloween.
- We owe thanks to the Roman goddess Pomona for introducing apples into Halloween lore.
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