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TIDBITS® CELEBRATES HALLOWEEN!

by Martha Ann Cole

Halloween is an eagerly anticipated holiday for fami-lies and retailers in the United States. How did this autumn holiday begin, and what were some of the ancient customs and traditions that have impacted our present day celebrations?

• Halloween seems to have its roots in ancient Celtic culture. The Celts were a group of people that lived in what is now Ireland several thousand years ago. They were farmers, and their original Halloween fes-tivals were a celebration of summer harvest and a preparation for the difficult, cold winter ahead. • The Celts believed that during this time of year, the division between the known world and the spirit world became very thin, and departed souls might visit them. Huge bonfires were built to scare away any evil spirits. Interestingly, the word “bonfire” comes from the old word “bone-fire,” representing the bodies of sacrificial animals that were thrown into the fire. Special places were set at mealtime in remembrance of deceased relatives and friends. Candles were lit and treats were left along the side of the road to assist their departed loved ones on their journeys. This harvest celebration was called Samhain (pronounced “sow-ween”), which meant “summer’s end.” It was truly a time of magic and su-perstition.

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• Most people are aware that Ireland is an island in the Atlantic Ocean west of Britain. But did you realize that this “emerald isle” is the home to two separate countries? The Republic of Ireland is an independent country made up of 26 counties and occupies most of the island of Ireland. North-ern Ireland is a country comprised of six northern counties that remains part of the United Kingdom. The capital city of the Republic of Ireland is Dublin. Belfast is the capital of the northern region. The entire island is slightly larger than the state of West Virginia. Ireland is the third largest island in Europe and the 26th largest island in the world.• Ireland was home to the Celts several millennia ago and is the supposed birthplace of Halloween. St. Patrick spread Christianity to the island and, ac-cording to legend, beat the snakes into surround-ing oceans. Today Ireland does not have snakes, but reliable sources say that it never was a home to this reptile. Leprechauns are said to inhabit the island, hiding pots of gold and playing tricks on un-wary citizens.• Throughout the years, many people from Ireland have migrated to the United States. When the po-tato crops were decimated in the potato famine of the 1840s, More than 1.2 million Irish men, women and children left to seek their fortune in Britain or the USA. This pattern of migration continued up until the 1990s. In spite of a recent baby boom and the return of many emigrants, Ireland’s population is still not as large today as it was in 1841, at the beginning of the potato famine• There are now more cell phones in Ireland than people. Ireland’s average of 102 phones for every 100 people is lower than the European Union aver-age of 107 phones per 100 people.• Today over 40 million Americans claim Irish an-cestry! St. Patrick’s Day is a prominent holiday in the United States, celebrated with numerous festiv-ities, parades and merriment. Many famous poets and writers that we enjoy were Irish. William But-ler Yeats, James Joyce and George Moore wrote about Irish life in works that gained international acclaim. Other distinguished Irish writers include Jonathan Swift, George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wil-de and Samuel Beckett.• Ireland is currently the world’s largest exporter of software. That is largely because it’s the place where big American technology companies such as Microsoft and IBM send their software to be routed and exported to the rest of Europe and the Middle East.• One is able to learn a lot about the culture of a people by reading their literature. The following is a random collection of old Irish sayings and proverbs that give much insight into the humor, wisdom and heritage of the Irish men and women of today:

There’s no fireside like your own fireside.Never bolt the door with a boiled carrot.Good luck beats early rising.Everyone praises his native land.A lie travels further than the truth.A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.A scholars ink lasts longer than a martyr’s blood.If you want an audience, start a fight.Don’t break your shin on a stool that is not in your way.If you dig a grave for others, you might fall into it yourself..

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TV SERIES“Doctor Who” The Complete Fifth Series“Golden Girls” 25th Anniversary Complete Collec-tion“Lie to Me” Season Two “Californication” The Third Season“The Super Hero Squad Show: Quest For The In-finity Sword” Vol. 2 “Superman/Shazam” The Return of Black Adam“Hell’s Kitchen” Season 4 Raw and Uncensored “Men of a Certain Age” The Complete First Sea-son

TOP TEN MOVIES1. Jackass 3D (R) Johnny Knoxville, Ryan Dunn2. Red (PG-13) Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman3. The Social Network (PG-13) Jesse Eisen-berg, Justin Timberlake4. Secretariat (PG) Diane Lane, John Malk-ovich5. Life As We Know It (PG-13) Katherine Heigl, Josh Duhamel6. Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole (PG) animated7. The Town (R) Ben Affleck, Jon Hamm8. My Soul to Take (R) Max Thieriot, John Magaro9. Easy A (PG-13) Emma Stone, Penn Badgley10. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (PG-13) Michael Douglas, Shia LaBeouf

TOP TEN VIDEO, DVD of October 23, 2010Top 10 Video Rentals1. Iron Man 2 (PG-13) Robert Downey, Jr.2. Get Him to the Greek (R) Jonah Hill3. Robin Hood (PG-13) Russell Crowe4. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (PG-13) Jake Gyllenhaal5. Killers (PG-13) Aston Kutcher6. Letters to Juliet (PG) Amanda Seyfried7. Just Wright (PG) Queen Latifah8. Marmaduke (PG) Owen Wilson9. The Experiment (R) Adrien Brody10. Solitary Man (R) Michael Douglas

Top 10 DVD Sales1. Iron Man 2 (PG-13) (Paramount)2. Get Him to the Greek (R) (Universal)3. Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue (G) (Buena Vista)4. Robin Hood (PG-13) (Universal)5. Family Guy: Partial Terms of Endearment (NR) (20th Century Fox)6. Superman/Batman: Apocalypse (PG-13) (Warner)7. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (PG-13) (Buena Vista)8. Barbie: A Fashion Fairytale (NR) (Universal)9. Iron Man (PG-13) (Paramount)10. Letters to Juliet (PG) (Summit)

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“Scott Pilgrim vs. the World” (PG-13) -- “Scott Pilgrim” is not only the most stylistic and visually engaging films of the year, it also is one of the most enjoyable. Michael Cera stars as the titu-lar Pilgrim, a Canadian slacker who plays bass in an indie band and finds himself in the awk-ward and life-threatening situation of falling in love with the uber-hip and out-of-his-league Ra-mona (Mary Elizabeth Winstead). But before he can date her, he must defeat her seven deadly exes.Sure, it’s a goofy and ridiculous premise, but in this fantasy comic book/video game-based universe where Pilgrim and his friends reside, it makes perfect sense, because here everything and everyone exist in a place where physical laws are all based on videogames. Punch a dude hard enough and he’ll fly back 300 yards. Defeat an opponent, and he poofs out of exis-tence, leaving nothing but a shower of golden coins, a la Mario. Of the hundreds of films based on comic books, “Scott Pilgrim” is the first movie to perfectly rep-licate the comic book experience and aesthet-ic. Check it out. This film’s charm and whimsy shouldn’t be missed.

“Sherlock: Season One” (NR) -- “Doctor Who” producer Steven Moffat has managed to do what most people thought impossible: Bring to the small screen a modern-day Sherlock Hol-mes series that is not only exciting and enter-taining, but also manages to make the detective relevant in a world of cell phones, internet and CSI units. Benedict Cumberbatch (“Atonement”) stars as Holmes, and he delivers a performance that rivals even the great Jeremy Brett’s -- a feat I didn’t think possible. Martin Freeman (“The Of-fice”) co-stars as Dr. Watson, and the chemistry between the two men is what makes the pro-gram a delight to watch. The DVD release in-cludes all three 90-minute specials, the original

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¥ It was American author, producer, screenwriter and director Michael Crichton who made the fol-lowing sage observation: “Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you’re being had.” ¥ Statistics show that more babies are born in Sep-tember than in any other month of the year. ¥ Talk about bad luck: In May of 2009, two thieves broke into a jewelry store in Milwaukee, bagged up their loot and tried to make their getaway. On the way out of the looted store, they were confronted by two more thieves, who took the ill-gotten gains. No one ended up profiting from the crime, how-ever; all four were arrested. ¥ According to an estimate by the United Nations, there are more than 3 million shipwrecks on the ocean floor. ¥ You may have heard of the turducken -- a chicken stuffed into a duck stuffed into a turkey -- but you probably didn’t know that a chef in the United King-dom took the idea of nested fowl several steps fur-ther. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall stuffed a wood-cock inside a pigeon, inside a partridge, inside a pheasant, inside a chicken, inside a guineafowl, inside a mallard, inside a duck, inside a goose, in-side a turkey. No word on how the 10-layer dish was carved for serving. ¥ If you’re not the sort of person who makes the bed every day, here’s some good news for you: Re-searchers in the United Kingdom have found that unmade beds are less likely to harbor dust mites, a common cause of asthma and allergic symptoms. ***Thought for the Day: “If you would be a real seek-er after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.” -- Rene Descartes

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HALLOWEEN (continued):• As time went by and Christianity spread through-out Europe, customs evolved, and people in Ireland and other European countries developed their own unique ways of celebrating the end of summer and preparing for winter. Many old traditions focused on matchmaking techniques that were believed to as-sist eligible bachelors and bachelorettes.• On Halloween in 18th-century Scotland, an unat-tached young woman was encouraged to write the names of prospective husbands on hazelnuts. She then threw the hazelnuts into a fire. The nuts that burned rather than popped or exploded identified the young woman’s husband to be. Wonder what happened if more than one nut burned?• Another matchmaking technique in old Scotland was the eating of a combination of hazelnuts, wal-nuts and nutmeg before going to bed on Halloween night. It was thought that the young woman who did this would dream of her future mate. Isn’t it in-teresting that the magical meal consisted primarily of nuts?• A somewhat dangerous practice was to walk backwards down the staircase to the basement of a house while holding a mirror. At the bottom of the stairs the face of their future husband or wife would appear in the mirror.• In old England, men and women in search of a mate would count the number of puffs it took them to blow out a candle while wearing a blindfold. This number foretold the number of years it would be before they were wed.• When did the custom of trick or treating begin? Trick or Treating is thought to have begun during All Souls’ Day celebrations several hundred years ago in England. All Souls’ Day was a religious holiday in Pre-Reformation England. This holiday honored the lives of those who had died. The poor would go from house to house offering to pray for the dead in exchange for money or “soul cakes,” which were a type of hot cross bun.• When we think of a Jack-O-Lantern today, we usually think of a carved pumpkin. However, hun-dreds of years ago in Scotland and Ireland, chil-dren would make them out of turnips! Turnips were a major food crop in the region. The children would hollow out the vegetables, carve faces on them and place a candle inside. Years later when many Euro-peans migrated to the United States, they discov-ered an abundance of pumpkins, and the present day Jack-O-Lantern was born. Just think of trying to carve a turnip!.

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While driving on a country road, you may have no-ticed a funny looking object beside a backyard gar-den. You may have explained to any children riding with you that the strange figure with outstretched arms was a scarecrow. But did you know that scarecrows have been used by farmers for thou-sands of years?• Farmers have long dealt with birds invading their fields. Birds would often eat so much of their crops that the farmer’s family would not have enough food to see them through the winter. So, around 3,000 years ago, they came up with a method to solve this problem. They began to make scarecrows.• The River Nile is about 4,160 miles in length (lon-ger than the continental USA is wide) and is the longest river in the world. Twenty-two percent of it runs through Egypt and creates a fertile green val-ley across this otherwise arid, desert region. The banks of the Nile were the birthplace of one of the oldest civilizations in the world, the Egyptians.• The Nile River valley was (and is) an important area for growing crops. The availability of water and rich soil along the Nile helped to produce lush crops of wheat. Wheat was a major source of food for the early Egyptians. Flocks of quail would raid the crops of these ancient people, so clever farm-ers came up with a creative solution to the problem. They built wooden frames covered with netting and scattered them throughout the fields. Then farm-ers hid in the fields and scared the quail into the nets. The captured quail became a tasty meal for the farmers and their families.

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• On Halloween in 18th-century Scotland, an un-attached young woman was encouraged to write the names of prospective husbands on hazelnuts. She then threw the hazelnuts into a fire. The nuts that burned rather than popped or exploded iden-tified the young woman’s husband to be. Wonder what happened if more than one nut burned?• Jack of Jack-O-Lantern fame was supposedly a very wicked man named Stingy Jack. This indi-vidual was said to be so bad that he was refused entrance to both heaven and hell. The devil didn’t want him but gave him a hollowed out turnip with a lump of glowing coal inside. Jack was doomed to roam the earth for eternity with his turnip to light his way. He was called “Jack of the Lantern.” His name was later shortened to Jack-O-Lantern.• Barnbrack is a kind of Irish fruitcake that is eaten on Halloween today. Small treats are wrapped and placed inside the cake before baking. Finding a ring inside a piece of barnbrack indicates that the person finding it will have a wedding in their fu-ture, while finding a straw means that a prosper-ous year is in store.• Today in Ireland, where the Celts lived and cel-ebrated centuries ago, bonfires are still burned, but now children dress up in costumes and trick or treat, and often attend parties with their fami-lies and friends. They play a game called “snap-apple,” which is a kind of bobbing for an apple on a string. An apple is tied to a string hanging from a doorframe and youngsters try to take a bite with-out using their hands. Families play a card game in which cards are placed face down on a table with candy or coins underneath. A child chooses a card and receives the prize. • Many in the United States look forward to Hal-loween every year. Businesses look forward to the increased sales of candies, costumes and party decorations, and children look forward to trans-forming themselves into ghosts, goblins, princess-es and pirates, or other spooky characters. Fami-lies get their supply of goodies ready and prepare for happy cries of “Trick or Treat” as they answer their ringing doorbells.• In the USA, more candy is sold around Hallow-een than at any other time. Americans purchase large amounts of candy for Easter, Christmas and Valentine’s Day, but candy sales at Halloween out-number these other popular holidays.• Halloween comes in third behind Christmas and New Year’s Eve in the numbers of parties hosted.• More funny greeting cards are sold for Hallow-een than for any other holiday. Twenty-five million cards are sold annually. • Present day Halloween celebrations are excit-ing and fun for kids and grownups alike. Have fun, be safe and “Happy Halloween” from Tidbits! We hope you have a special time this year!

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