The annual holiday Halloween is currently being celebrated all over the world. During the October 31st, 2011, we can participate in various incredible activities such as attending costume parties, visiting haunted attractions, watching horror movies or telling scary stories and so on. Halloween is the time we can see scary symbols, which conjure up scary imagery and haunting manifestations of the supernatural. Indispensable symbols of Halloween are black cats, bats, gravestones, witches, pumpkin lanterns, spiders and so on.
Besides black cats and bats, spiders are also a popular symbol of Halloween. In ancient time, people believed that witches will appear when spiders are burned by human. It is also rumored that if you see a spider at the Halloween night, you will see your beloved person who had died earlier.
Spiders - Symbols of Halloween
Witches are often believed to own the supernatural powers. People used to think that if they put their clothes on the wrong side out and walk backwards at Halloween’s midnight, they can meet a real witch.
Witches - Symbols of Halloween
Black cats have been believed as a symbol of the supernatural for a long time. They were also thought to be related to witchcraft. During the middle ages, the black cat is often associated with misfortune and bad omens.
Black Cats - Symbols of Halloween
Carved orange pumpkins are one of the most familiar symbols of Halloween we see these days. The flames inside pumpkin lanterns was said to be associated with the spirits of the death.
Pumpkin Lanterns - Symbols of Halloween
Bats are known as omens of bad luck or evil. They were believed to show off the presence of spirits as well as ghosts. It was thought that if a bat flies around a house three times on Halloween, somebody in the house must die.
Bats - Symbols of Halloween
Gravestones are the places where living people can meet the world of the dead. And Halloween is the time to welcome visitors from the spirit world. It was believed that Gravestones (heavy rocks) were created to keep the dead from rising from their graves.
Gravestones - Symbols of Halloween
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