Reposting HalloweenNewsletter
Bill
October 2011
-- Only A Few Weeks! Come Post To The New Forum (almost anything)
-- Halloween Radio
-- Halloween For Charity
-- History Of Trick-Or-Treating
-- Friends of the Network
-- Halloween Army
-- Thank You To Sponsors / Save 25% coupon
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Only A Few Weeks! Come Post To The New Forum
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Ummm. It seems like it was just August. Now it is only a few weeks
until Halloween!
What are you working on? We think this is going to be one of the
best Halloween seasons EVER!
Caverns Of Blood has recently RE-LAUNCHED our forum!
We need you to help us re-kickstart the forum!!
Please come and register at: http://www.cavernsofblood.com/forum/ and
make a few posts to get started.
This forum was re-launched with the rules of almost no rules! Just be
respectful and pretty much everything else goes. Really! The forum is
set up to be fun! We do need more members and more posts! Please
make some posts today at: http://www.cavernsofblood.com/forum/ - We
REALLY appreciate it!
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Halloween Radio - Listen NOW
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Halloween Radio at http://www.halloweenradio.com is a tremendous
success.
The feedback so far has been very positive. We have a HUGE library of
Halloween and Horror songs. Adding more and more regularly!
We want to play what you want to hear. Tune in to http://www.halloweenradio.com
today!
Bands and Artists: We want to play your Halloween and Horror
music. Please send MP3 and description info to
requ...@halloweenradio.com
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Halloween For Charity
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Halloween Charity We believe that it is extremely important to help
those less fortunate. Our philosophy has always been that if every
American would give even $1, $5, $20 or whatever they could afford to
their favorite charities.
We consider to challenge every home haunter and enthusiast that if you
feel that you cannot afford to give even $5 to a worthy cause: to buy
one less coffee, beer, pack of smokes, coke, junk food etc. and
give. Make sure that it is a worthy cause and give. You may help
save someone’s life.
We have a site: http://www.HalloweenCharity.com/ that you can use to
help spread the thought. Giving makes you feel good.
Kudos go out to those in our community that work hard to give.
This includes (certainly not limited to):
Spirit Of Children: http://www.spirithalloween.com/spiritofchildrenday/
Costumes For Kids: http://www.costumesforkids.net/
Unicef: http://youth.unicefusa.org/
Please share your Halloween / Haunt oriented charity or charity
efforts with us at: sub...@halloweennews.com
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History Of Trick-Or-Treating
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One of the main events of Halloween is trick-or-treating, also known
as guising in Scotland, in which children dress up in costume
disguises and go door-to-door in their neighborhood, ringing each
doorbell and yelling "trick or treat!" The occupants of the house (who
might themselves dress in a scary costume) will then hand out small
candies, miniature chocolate bars or other treats. Homes sometimes use
sound effects and fog machines to help set a spooky mood. Other house
decoration themes (that are less scary) are used to entertain younger
visitors. Children can often accumulate many treats on Halloween
night, filling up entire pillow cases or shopping bags.
In Scotland, children or guisers are likely to recite "The sky is
blue, the grass is green, may we have our Halloween" instead of "trick
or treat!", they will then have to impress the members of the houses
they visit with a song, trick, joke or dance in order to earn their
treats.
Tricks play less of a role in modern Halloween, though the night
before Halloween is often marked by pranks such as soaping windows,
egging houses or stringing toilet paper through trees. Before indoor
plumbing was so widespread, tipping over or displacing outhouses was a
popular form of trick.
Typical Halloween costumes have traditionally been monsters such as
vampires, ghosts, witches, and devils. The stereotypical Halloween
costume is a sheet with eyeholes cut in it as a ghost costume. In 19th-
century Scotland and Ireland the reason for wearing such fearsome (and
non-fearsome) costumes was the belief that since the spirits that were
abroad that night were essentially intent on doing harm, the best way
to avoid this was to fool the spirits into believing that you were one
of them. In recent years, it has become common for costumes to be
based on themes other than traditional horror, such as dressing up as
a character from a TV show or movie, or choosing a recognizable face
from the public sphere, such as a politician (in 2004, for example,
George W. Bush and John F. Kerry were both popular costumes in
America). In 2001, after the September 11 attacks, for example,
costumes of firefighters, police officers, and United States military
personnel became popular among children. In 2004, an estimated 2.15
million children in the United States were expected to dress up as
Spider Man, the year's most popular costume. [1]
"'Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF" has become a common sight during
Halloween in America, Canada, and Mexico. Started by UNICEF in 1950,
the program involves the distribution of small boxes by schools to
trick-or-treaters, in which they can solicit small change donations
from the houses they visit. It is estimated that children have
collected more than $119 million for UNICEF since its inception.
A child usually "grows out of" trick-or-treating by his or her teenage
years. Teenagers and adults instead often celebrate Halloween with
costume parties or other social get-togethers.
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Friends of the Network
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While we have many friends, here are a few of our partners:
http://www.theholidayspot.com/halloween
Halloween at TheHolidaySpot!
Visit for ideas on parties, gifts, crafts n activities, costumes,
games, recipes and many more. Complete family entertainment for
Halloween.
http://www.cell93.com/halloween/
Halloween site for your mobile access
http://www.kidsgen.com/events/halloween
Kids Gen Halloween
A Halloween fun site for kids from kidsgen.
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HALLOWEEN ARMY
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Halloween fans continue to work together to promote the positive
aspects of Halloween in the United States.
Many Halloween enthusiasts over the past few years have noticed the
number of organizations and individuals attempting to spread rumors
regarding the history and celebration of Halloween that are not
true. Halloween fans do not find this acceptable.
The army web site will provides free content and other tools for fans
to utilize to spread the word and fight for Halloween. We will
continue to grow.
As the Halloween season approaches, the army will work together to
help stop un-true rumors regarding Halloween. Halloween is great for
local communities, charities, families, enthusiasts and the economy.
If you are a Halloween fan and enthusiast, Halloween Army wants to
work with you! Please help spread the word on your site, blog,
profile and signature. We will work to bring you additional tools as
the season progresses.
We are fighting for Halloween!
Halloween Army
Web Site: http://www.halloweenarmy.org
Army Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/halloweenarmy
Army Twitter: http://twitter.com/halloweenarmy
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Thank You To Our Sponsors and Our Readers
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