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The world of unknown and unexpected always attracted us and the tendency to become superstitious makes it easier to go beyond the unexpected where the border between the living and the dead become vague.
In ancient times, people believed that on Halloween, ghosts come back to the world of the living to frighten them and take away their food. It was a frightening time tied to uncertainty which embraced people in dark winters. To avoid them people went out of their home, wore masks and hoped that those ghosts would confuse them with their fellows.
By the turn of those black centuries when fear was replaced by knowledge and superstition was replaced by rationality, the Halloween formed into a holiday and an occasion to celebrate. Gradually it lost also its religious hints.
Now children disguise themselves in Halloween costumes, go door-to-door, ringing each doorbell and yelling “trick-or-treat”. They entertain themselves by holiday parties where bobbing for apples and spooky story telling are common.
Although the age of ancient beliefs has passed and we have become a society of rational people who have definitely distinguished the line between dead and alive, the spooky feeling of those images is still in every one of us and anyway, what would Halloween be without a good scare!

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