Moving toward the middle of the 20th century – Halloween found itself in a revived mode due to the baby boom of the 40s and ‘trick-or-treating’ realized a huge revival which helped create brand new North American traditions. It is estimated that more than $7 Billion is spent annually on this holiday as a result of this revival and it ranks second in the importance of all holidays – only behind Christmas and the all-significant….retail revenues.

Traditions play heavily when celebrating Halloween. Those that wear specific costumes are giving respect to their European and Celtic roots while our Native Americans believe in evil spirits while the descendants of African slaves adhere to the tradition of black magic. The British wear ‘nuts’ as charms to ward off the Devil who was believed to be a nut gatherer and the Welsh believed that if you sneezed on that day you blew your soul out of your body. We must not forget the belief that children born on this day can see into the future and carry on conversations with a wide variety of supernatural beings.

Many countries celebrate a varied amount of Holidays near or at the same time as Halloween.  Several examples of these traditions are – Great Britain has “Guy Fawkes Day”  and Mexico celebrates with “The Day Of The Dead”.