Halloween Symbols
The most prominent Halloween symbol is the carved pumpkin with a lot candle inside. This is an Irish tradition of carving a lantern which goes back centuries. There lanterns are usually carved from a turnip or potatoes. The pumkin carving was first associated with Halloween in North America, where the pumpkin was available, and much larger and easier to carve. The jack-o'-lantern can be traced back to the Irish legend of Stingy Jack.
The imagery surrounding Halloween is largely and amalgamation of the Halloween season itself, nearly a century of work form American filmakers and graphic artists, and a rather commercialized take on the dark and mysterious. Halloween imagery tends to involve death, magic, or mythical monsters. Common Halloween characters include, skeletons, ghost stories, ghosts, ghouls, witches, VAMPIRES, BATS, owls, crows, vultures, haunted houses, pumpkinmen, black cats, aliens, spiders, goblins, zombies, mummies, skeletons, werewolves and demons.
Particularly in America, symbolism is inspired by classic horror fims, which contains fictional figures like DRACULA, Frankenstein's monster, The Wolf Man, and The Mummy. More modern horror antagonists like Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers, Leatherface, Jason Voorhees, and the Jigsaw killer have also become associted with the holiday. Homes are often decorated with these symbols around Halloween.
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The imagery surrounding Halloween is largely and amalgamation of the Halloween season itself, nearly a century of work form American filmakers and graphic artists, and a rather commercialized take on the dark and mysterious. Halloween imagery tends to involve death, magic, or mythical monsters. Common Halloween characters include, skeletons, ghost stories, ghosts, ghouls, witches, VAMPIRES, BATS, owls, crows, vultures, haunted houses, pumpkinmen, black cats, aliens, spiders, goblins, zombies, mummies, skeletons, werewolves and demons.
Particularly in America, symbolism is inspired by classic horror fims, which contains fictional figures like DRACULA, Frankenstein's monster, The Wolf Man, and The Mummy. More modern horror antagonists like Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers, Leatherface, Jason Voorhees, and the Jigsaw killer have also become associted with the holiday. Homes are often decorated with these symbols around Halloween.
[/size=120]Black and orange (like the paragraphs I'm making) are the traditional colroe of Halloween. In modern Halloween images and products, purple, green and red ate also prominent.[/size]
I love Halloween...:]
Ten Speed, November 9th, 2007 at 05:11:11am
Oh well you know what Slappy Jo...I don't know...
TheShadowChild, November 2nd, 2007 at 09:06:14pm
Wanna know an interesting fact? Everyone thinks Jackolanterns came from Europe. And they kind of did. But you know how they got to Europe? India. A lot of people here carve pumpkins or turnips with faces and put them outside the door and call them "dishthi bomma", something to ward off evil eyes.
lyrical_mess, November 1st, 2007 at 02:12:37pm
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I coughed because when I typed it, I actually shouted it out loud.
But then I forgot no one was home.
captain america, November 1st, 2007 at 04:54:40am
I don't understand why you coughed...oh well...I LOVE VAMPIRES AND DRACULA...(I'm Lazarus The Vampire King) Hehe
TheShadowChild, October 31st, 2007 at 11:24:04pm
DRACULA.
*coughs*
captain america, October 31st, 2007 at 11:15:28pm