Adult Halloween costumes ? the right choice!

Each year, millions of people celebrate the scary night of Halloween. They dress as their favorite characters, carve up pumpkins and go from door to door asking for candy. A wonderful celebration, Halloween would not be the same if people did not wear costumes. Whether we are talking about a simple Halloween costume or something more sophisticated, the basic idea is that being costumed is great. And considering the wealth of adult Halloween costumes existent out there, how could we think otherwise?

You can dress yourself like the Court Jester, appear at the party as the Lady of the Court or just wear a simple cape instead of a regular Halloween costume. There are many choices out there and the truth is that we all welcome the opportunity to wear a unique-looking costume for one night. Court Jester adult Halloween costumes are quite popular, being represented by an assortment of the following: hood, shirt and pants. As you will probably be informed, you will have to take care of the shoes and the gloves, as these are not included within the package. Another interesting Halloween costume is the Evil Jester adult costume, one that you can match the Evil Royal Goblet to, or the Playing Card King adult costume.

The Lady of the Court Halloween costume is indeed a unique choice, including a coat, a vest and knickers. Additional accessories such as the shoes, wig or jewelry will have to be purchased aside from the costume. You might like coming costumes like Marie Antoinette, wearing a wig that reminds one of the times long gone. Don’t forget the accessories that fit perfectly to such a unique Halloween costume, meaning the black Venetian feather mask or the elastic rhinestone bracelet. There are plenty of adult Halloween costumes presented so you don’t have to settle just for one. It all depends on how many parties you are going to attend or how many houses you want to visit during those scary hours.

Have you always dreamt about being the queen of the ball? If the answer is yes, then there is no better time than Halloween to dress up. Select a Ball Queen Halloween costume and prepare yourself to make quite an impression. The costume includes an elegant looking gown and a mysterious mask but if you want to look exactly like in the picture, you will have to purchase matching shoes and a choker. Another interesting choice when it comes to adult Halloween costumes for women is represented by the Playboy Madam Masquerade, which is in fact a costume officially licensed by Playboy.

We know that women love to dress up no matter the occasion. What about guys? Do they like the whole idea of being costumed for Halloween? The answer is yes. Many men are looking to purchase the right Halloween costume without paying a fortune for it. One can look like a king for a night but there are plenty of other adult Halloween costumes to discover and enjoy. There are movie characters, historical figures and lots and lots of pirates. Who would not want to celebrate Halloween costumed as a pirate?

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Halloween‘s Most Popular Symbols: Witches

The term “bewitch” makes us typically think to a very old woman whose skin is grey or green, poring over a bubbling black cauldron that contains disgusting ingredients, pronouncing some kind of strange enchantment and worshipping the devil.

Fairy tales as well as derivative movies made in Hollywood are generally responsible for such untrue idea of those characters only because it makes the movie more exciting.

Witches are also frightening characters of Halloween celebrations. But what is the truth about them?

Basically, the term “witch” originates from the words wicca, wicce or wiccian; which all mean in reality ‘wise woman’, ‘wise women in the plural form. There always have been people interested in learning the special virtues of medicinal plants, the course of the moon, stars and other planets, and by many other aspects of the nature.

In general, witches are associated with a well-known earth-based religion: the Wicca, but a lot of others can be called “witches” no matter the fact that they do not follow this particular religion. A great number of these people practice a mingle-mangle of ancient pagan rites. These rites existed a long time before the advent of the Christian religion whose originated the term “witch” and launched the idea that those who lived under the cycles of nature were revering the church of the demon.

It was the Catholic religion which introduced the concept of Satan or any other demon. The term “pagan” itself in reality signifies “country people” – not devil worshippers.

Men can be witches also, but the term makes us think to women. There is a misconception of the word that male witches are supposed to be called ‘warlocks’ – this also is another of those Hollywood driven ideas because the term has a more virile consonance.

“Warlock” is a term of derision and loathing that was originally used by the pagan people to describe someone who betrayed his people and the ways of Nature. Actually, the term “warlock” comes from the Middle English “warloghe”, and from Old English “wrloga”. The real meaning of these terms is: “the one that breaks faith” or “betrayer”.

Everyone knows that witches are able to cast spells. “Spell” is a word that actually derived from the old German “Spiel” and means “prayer”. Essentially, Christians, Moslims, Buddhists, Hinduists do pray for a certain outcome; and so witches cast spells for a certain outcome too. The belief is that one can harness the power of the life force of the universe to call into being what they desire.

Just like in any other religion, it is necessary that witches set the mood and state of mind in their practice. And so, they use some tools in order to cast spells such as Athame – a ceremonial knife, book of shadows (spell book), scented oils, herbs, etc.

While witches are supposed to be evil by a lot of people, truth is, whether or not anyone is good or evil is up to the particular individual. Witchcraft is neither black nor white, but merely is and how it is used depends on the user.

And in witchcraft, as it is the case in many other religions, we can do what we want for as long as we do not hurt anyone.

“For as you send, so shall it return to ye thrice-fold.”

Always remember this and happy spell casting on Halloween!

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Pot-luck Halloween Party for Everyone

Children favorite holidays are Saint Nicholas (in Belgium) or Christmas, because of the gifts; Carnival (in Europe) because of the costumes, parties and parades; and Halloween.

Why do they love Halloween? Adults assume that children love Halloween because children generally love candy.

But children do not only love the abundance of candy at Halloween. They love partying, wearing costumes, watching torchlight parades…

Adults also love Halloween. Especially Halloween parties.

While reading lots of articles dedicated to Halloween, I noticed that people talk about Halloween parties for children or Halloween parties for adults. But they seldom talk about Halloween parties for everyone.

So this year, why not going for a Halloween party for everyone, adults and children?

Obviously, Halloween family parties are often organized: when the trick or treating is over, children come home with their candies and after verifying the quality of the sweets they received, everybody goes in the living room. While drinking pumpkin juice, parents tell
children some Halloween stories.

But there is a way to make your Halloween evening funnier for everyone. What about a pot-luck party? What about inviting your friends and neighbours; married couples or single parents and their children?

Unfortunately, there is a major inconvenient: when she guests a party, the housewife must stay in the kitchen to ensure that everyone has something to eat and to drink and to prepare the meal.

This year, the housewife will participate and enjoy the Halloween party. The principle of this event is the following one: each guest brings different dishes: meal, dessert, pie or drink – alcoholic or not.

Prepare your Halloween party for everyone by creating invitation cards with funny Halloween decorations. Set up a costume theme. Decorate your house. Ask children to help you: they also participate to the event.

The easiest way to guest a Halloween party is by organizing a supper-table. Convert your dinner room table into a supper-table. Place the Jack-O-Lantern on its center and each of the dishes brought by your guests all around it. Each participant will serve himself.

A supper-table is also an excellent way for your guests to be able to talk to everyone and meet new people.

A smaller table in another corner of the room will become the bar area. Fun tip: carve two large pumpkins and decorate them with Halloween theme and fill one of them with sangria or alcoholic punch for adults and the other one with fruit juice for the children. Decorate the drinks with Witch Eyes.

Witch Eyes recipe:

Canned peeled and drained litchis
Incorporate a black grape or a maraschino cherry into each litchi

Plan to have enough chairs for your guests and reserve some space at the center of the room to dance. Put the musical mood by creating some play lists dedicated to Halloween.

Here are some Halloween dessert ideas:

Halloween Lanterns:

Ingredients:
Montain oranges,
Chocolate mousse

Preparation:
Cut the top of each orange
Remove the pulp or the oranges
Draw eyes, a nose and a mouth as if they were pumpkins
Fill the oranges with chocolate mousse
Cap them with the top you cutted
Keep them in a cool place.

French Pumpkin Doughnut
Ingredients:
Cut 500 g of Hokkaido pumpkin into small cubes
2 tablespoon Sugar
2 tablespoon Soft butter
2 lightly beaten eggs
125 fl oz flour
Oil

Preparation:
Put the Hokkaido pumpkin in a pot
Cover with water and let it boil until the pumpkin is cooked and tender
Drain the pumpkin and combine with sugar, butter and eggs
Gradually add flour while beating
File a tablespoon of the mixture into hot oil for about 4-5 minutes
Serve warm.

Have a fun pot-luck Halloween party for everyone!

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How to Make a Halloween Treat Bag

Want to save money and have a good time with your family this Halloween by making your own Halloween treat bag?

I used to buy Halloween treat bagsfor my children every year before Halloween.

After Halloween the bags end up in the garbage can each and every year.   

A waste of money … Don’t you agree? And bad for the environment as well.

But, I found a nice little solution to that, which I am going to share with you today.

Your kids will love this simple solution….I guarantee it!

Ok here goes…I kept you waiting long enough now!:

Gather your children around the table.  Serve some cookies and drinks.  

Make this a nice family event!

Gather some old shopping bags, some scissors, glue, Halloween stickers, glitters, and some markers.

Look for some nice printable Halloween templates online to decorate the shopping bags.

Print the templates on T-shirt transfer paper and iron the designs on the bags.
Some popular Halloween designs:

-    Ghost.
-    Skull.
-    Pumpkin.
-    Bat
-    Ghoul.
-    Monster.
-    Their name.
-    Or …”Got candy?” on it.

If the Halloween treat bags match the children’s outfits they will most certainly steal the show!

Warning!: After the Halloween treat bags have been created make sure the bags can carry some weight. A lot of candy will go into those bags …

If the the tests have been successful it’s time to hit the streets to collect loads of candy!

The kids will feel very proud with their self created Halloween treat bag.

Plus…you had some quality time with your kids, being creative, saved money, AND did something for the environment!

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Happy Halloween II — Halloween Customs

On the annual Nov.1 is the traditional Western festival of “Ghost Holiday” – Halloween, and Oct. 31 is the eve of Halloween, it usually known as the night before Halloween. But the atmosphere on this day is far from “horrible” as its name sounds.

The custom of Halloween was brought to America in the 1840’s by Irish immigrants fleeing their country’s potato famine. At that time, the favorite pranks in New England included tipping over outbuildings and unhinging fence gates. 

The best known and featured custom of Halloween are just the two – fantastic “Jack’s Lantern” and prank “Trick or Treat”. 

Every time at the arrival of Halloween, the children are all hurried to put on their colorful make-up costumes, wear various ridiculous masks on and carrying a “Jack Light” walk from house to house and begging for holiday gifts.

Trick or Treat 

The custom of trick-or-treat is thought to have originated not with the Irish Celts, but with a ninth-century European custom called souling. On November 2, All Souls Day, early Christians would walk from village to village and begging for “soul candies”, made out of square pieces of bread with raisins.

The more soul candies the beggars would receive, the more prayers they would promise to say on behalf of the dead relatives of the donors. At the time, it was believed that the dead remained in limbo for a time after death, and that prayer, even by strangers, could speed up a soul’s path to the heaven.

This is an important part in Halloween days on the dining table, you not only should ready for enough candies and cakes to entertain those naughty “devilkins”, but also to deck out your table with elaborate care in this special day. Never to let your guests look down with you!

 Jack’s Lantern

 The “Jack’s Lantern” custom probably comes from Irish folklore. As the tale is told, a man named Jack, who was notorious as a drunkard and trickster, tricked Satan into climbing a tree. Jack then carved an image of a cross in the tree’s trunk, trapping the devil up the tree. Jack made a deal with the devil that, if he would never tempt him again, he would promise to let him down the tree.

According to the folk tale, after Jack died, he was denied entrance to Heaven because of his evil ways, but he was also denied access to Hell because he had tricked the devil. Instead, the devil gave him a single ember to light his way through the frigid darkness. The ember was placed inside a hollowed-out turnip to keep it glowing longer.

The “Jack’s Lantern” looks very cute and lovely, and its could be bought out very simple: Take a pumpkin and hollowed out it, then engraved smiling eyes and a big mouth on the outside, then put a candle in and lit it, so people could able to see this naive and smiling face faraway, this is just the children’s favorite toy on Halloween.

The Irish used turnips as their “Jack’s lanterns” originally. But when the immigrants came to America, they found that pumpkins were far more plentiful than turnips. So the Jack-O-Lantern in America was a hollowed-out pumpkin, lit with an ember.

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In the most “haunted” night, all kinds of demons, pirates, witches and extraterrestrial visitors will turn out one after another. In the era before Christ, the Celtics have the custom of to hold a ceremony at the end of the summer to express thanks for the benefactions given by God and the Sun, diviners of the time will light up fires and apply witchcrafts to drive away the demons and spirits that wandering around.

Later, the custom of Romans that using nuts and apples to celebrate harvest was fused with the custom of Celtics on October 31, and In the Middle Ages, people were accustomed to put on costumes of animal designs, and worn terrible masks to drive away ghosts and demons in the night before Halloween. Although the Christianism had taken place of the Celtic and Roman’s religious activities later, these early Halloween customs have been kept down finally.

The Halloween we celebrate today includes all of these influences, Pomona Day’s apples, nuts, and harvest, the Festival of Samhain’s black cats, magic, evil spirits and death, and the ghosts, skeletons and skulls from All Saint’s Day and All Soul’s Day.

So, although some cults may have adopted Halloween as their favorite “holiday,” the day itself did not grow out of evil practices. It grew out of the rituals of Celts celebrating a new year, and out of Medieval prayer rituals of Europeans. And today, even many churches have Halloween parties or pumpkin carving events for the kids. After all, the day itself is only as evil as one cares to make it.

Today, children wear on a variety of Halloween costumes and masks jokingly to attend Halloween parties, and people has been familiar with the scene of various witches made of paper, black cats, skeletons and ghost figures hanging on the walls of the parties, also in front of windows and doors there are pumpkin lanterns with bare teeth and open mouths or formidable faces.

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