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50 MOST BIZARRE HALLOWEEN DECOR IDEAS PART FIVE

This is the Fifth and last part of the Halloween Décor series wherein we collated about 50 best Halloween decor ideas from across the world for your views. Halloween is just few days away and we hope that you have enjoyed this series and these scary and amazing pictures. Halloween reminds us of the fact that we have someone from our family on the other side of world too, who wants us to feel happy and live. We try and do whatever is possible, in our means to make our dead relatives or friends happy, if they are somewhere there and watching us. So its time of the year again. A Time for Halloween.

Enjoy your life, decorate your house and write back to us. We would be waiting.

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50 MOST BIZARRE HALLOWEEN DECOR IDEAS PART FOUR

Its time of the year again. Time for Halloween. This is Part Four of the Series. Where we would be talking about the Halloween Superstitions and would also be showing you some of the most stunning and scary décor ideas for Halloween this year.

Halloween Superstitions

Halloween has always been a holiday filled with mystery, magic and superstition. It began as a Celtic end-of-summer festival during which people felt especially close to deceased relatives and friends. For these friendly spirits, they set places at the dinner table, left treats on doorsteps and along the side of the road and lit candles to help loved ones find their way back to the spirit world.

Today’s Halloween ghosts are often depicted as more fearsome and malevolent, and our customs and superstitions are scarier too. We avoid crossing paths with black cats, afraid that they might bring us bad luck. This idea has its roots in the middle Ages, when many people believed that witches avoided detection by turning themselves into cats. We try not to walk under ladders for the same reason. This superstition may have come from the ancient Egyptians, who believed that triangles were sacred; it also may have something to do with the fact that walking under a leaning ladder tends to be fairly unsafe. And around Halloween, especially, we try to avoid breaking mirrors, stepping on cracks in the road or spilling salt.

These were some of the most common superstitions we could find around Halloween. There are many more and would keep resurfacing with every new generation. Superstitions are just a matter of Individual believes.

Hope you have been liking this series, we are trying our best to keep you “hooked and scared” this Halloween. If you have some pictures of your Halloween decor, do send us we would love to share them with our readers.

50 MOST BIZARRE HALLOWEEN DECOR IDEAS PART THREE

In this five parts series on Halloween Decor Ideas, we are trying to get you the best of Halloween Décor & traditions associated with this festival. This is part three, where apart from looking at some stunning pictures on Halloween décor, we would also tell you about Halloween Traditions.

Today’s Halloween Traditions

“Trick or Treat” is one of the most famous and widely followed traditions at Halloween, essentially by kids. It dates back many centuries and originated in America. The roots of this tradition goes back to All Souls’ Day parades in early England Civilization. In those days, poor people would go and beg for food during festivals and promise to pray for their families dead relatives. And families used to offer them cakes in return of their prayers. These cakes were known as soul cakes. This tradition of feeding of poor was even supported by traditional churches as well. This tradition actually replaced an early tradition of leaving the food and wine for roaming spirits. Probably this practice, was eventually adopted by children of visiting houses and they were given food, money and drinks.

The ritual of dressing in costume for Halloween has Celtic roots from early England. Hundreds of years ago, winter was an uncertain and frightening time. Food supplies often ran low and, for the many people afraid of the dark, the short days of winter were full of constant worry. On Halloween, when it was believed that ghosts came back to the earthly world, people thought that they would encounter ghosts if they left their homes. To avoid being recognized by these ghosts, people would wear masks when they left their homes after dark so that the ghosts would mistake them for fellow spirits. On Halloween, to keep ghosts away from their houses, people would place bowls of food outside their homes to appease the ghosts and prevent them from attempting to enter.

So please keep hooked on to this space, we would be getting some more traditions and superstitions attached with this wonderful festival.

DECORATE YOUR HOME ON HALLOWEEN WITH TIGHT BUDGET

This is part two of the on-going series of “50 Most Bizarre Halloween Decor Ideas”. I am sure you all would be loving some stunning Halloween home décor pictures we have specially collected from across the world.

Halloween is one of the most electrifying holidays of the year for children as well as high-spirited adults. One of the most definitive pleasures for young and old is beautifying and decorating your home for Halloween. You can do it easily, by allowing your fancy lead the way and a good deal can be created within a tight budget, if needed. Pay close attention on how to decorate for the wonderful and scary Halloween.

Halloween Home Decor

When you have children, you can use all those school Halloween projects from their handcraft classes. Collect them and simply hang them. If possible make a Halloween tree, similar to a Christmas or an Easter tree. You can use construction paper for making jack-o-lanterns, bats, cats, witches, spiders and other ghoulish decorations to place around the tree. Use the entire house and cover all places. You may either use a double sided tape for attaching them or utilize a string to attach them for hanging.

Scary and Spooky Sound

Spooky sounds are wonderful for setting the mood. Buy a CD from the nearest market or you may even record your own voice in different scary modulations.

Lighting

Lighting is essential for setting a Halloween ambience. Use as much candles as you can and combine them with jack-o-lantern; but be careful if you have kids around. Employ all measures for any eventuality. On the other thought, you may even use plastic electric candles as well. If you have spare last year’s Christmas candles then replace their red white bulbs with some dark lights or wrap a dark paper around them to make them dimmed and scary. If you have paint, you may use that too on lights. Add some dark shades like black, as it gives an eerie feeling.

Halloween Dummy like Headless Door Keeper

You might have seen already in one of our pictures where we have shown a headless man, welcoming everyone on the door. This is just a dummy with head removed. And surprisingly, I must share with you that making a Halloween dummy is simple and fun, by using some old clothes, boots, a hat; and for some stuffing, use straw or old newspapers. Pose the dummy inside or out for the trick or treating children to see, they love taking a close up peek at such Halloween decorations. You might also consider some spider webs and spiders to hang out at your home as well during Halloween. click here to read full article….

50 MOST BIZARRE HALLOWEEN DECOR IDEAS – PART ONE

Its time of the year again. Time for Halloween. We are starting a five parts series in which we would like to showcase best 50 ideas for this year’s Halloween Decor. This is part one.

Somewhere in line between fall autumn and start of winter and celebration of life and death, Halloween is a time of celebration and superstition. It is thought to have originated with the ancient Celtic festival from early England and Ireland. The festivals used to be called Samhain, where people used to light fires and ward off ghosts. They used to wear scary clothes too. In the eighth century, Pope Gregory III designated November 1 as a time to honor all saints and martyrs; the holiday, All Saints’ Day, incorporated some of the traditions of Samhain. The evening before the day was known as All Hallows’ Eve. Which was called as Halloween in later years.

Over time, Halloween evolved into a secular, community-based event characterized by child-friendly activities such as trick-or-treating, which was essentially started in USA. From this day onwards we can see the onset of winters. Around the world, days start to grow shorter from now on and nights gets longer and colder. This is also the start of festivities across the world with different festivals coming up in November & December. People celebrate these days with friends and family gatherings, weird and best costumes and sweet treats.