FUN ADULT HALLOWEEN GAMES

Here are some fun ideas for adult Halloween games.

The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago in what is now Ireland, celebrated their new year on November 1st. They believed that on the night before the new year, the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred. So on the night of October 31st, Celts held a celebration in which they wore costumes and told fortunes. The migration of two million Irish following the mid-19th century Potato Famine brought the holiday to America.

Halloween became more commercialized during the 20th century, as did just about everything else. Manufacturers began mass producing Halloween costumes in the 1930s. Trick-or-treating became popular sometime in the 1950s.

Modern traditional Halloween symbols include witches, black cats, haunted houses, fake body parts, and the ever popular jack-o-lantern. The colors associated with Halloween are black and orange.

Below is a poetic tribute to Halloween:

HALLOWEEN (by Mac Hammond)

The butcher knife goes in, first, at the top

And carves out the round stemmed lid,

The hole of which allows the hand to go

In to pull the gooey mess inside, out -

The walls scooped clean with a spoon.

A grim design decided on, that afternoon,

The eyes are the first to go,

Isosceles or trapezoid, the square nose,

The down-turned mouth with three

Hideous teeth and, sometimes,

Round ears. At dusk it's

Lighted, the room behind it dark.

Outside, looking in, it looks like a

Pumpkin, it looks like ripeness

Is all. Kids come, beckoned by

Fingers of shadows on leaf-strewn lawns

To trick or treat. Standing at the open

Door, the sculptor, a warlock, drops

Penny candies into their bags, knowing

The message of winter: only the children,

Pretending to be ghosts, are real.

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