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| bobbing for apples | a traditional Halloween game: apples are put into a barrel of water to float, people take turns trying to get an apple out of the water with just their teeth |
| cackling | adjective: a wild, unearthly laughing sound |
| to carve | verb: to cut with a knife into a particular shape |
| Jack O'Lantern | a pumpkin carved into a face for Halloween display, often with a candle inside to light up the face at night |
| evil | adjective: extremely bad with cruelty in mind |
| haunted | adjective: inhabited by spirits or ghosts |
| ghost | noun: spirit of a dead person which may appears in some form to living people/at Halloween people dress as ghosts wearing white sheets covering their bodies and may also carry chains to make scary noises |
| hideous | adjective: extremely ugly |
| horrified | adjective: very frightened, scared, or afraid |
| pumpkin | noun: a large, round, orange edible vegetable in the squash family |
| skeleton | noun: the bones of a person or animal / at symbol of the dead for Halloween decorations or costumes |
| "Trick or Treat" | phrase:spoke by childre who come to the door of homes on Halloween night to ask for candy or treats. The playful threat says they will play a "trick" if they don't get a treat. |
| wicked | adjective: same as "evil" |
| witch | noun: a woman with magical powers, in English language stories she is often evil, ugly, and feared; wearing black clothing with a pointed hat, and riding a broom. |
| Black Cats | noun phrase: an old belief/superstition that means bad luck will happen to the person who meets a black cat. |
| superstition | noun: an idea based on lack of knowledge that usually causes people to fear or be cautious |
| All Hallow's Eve | proper noun: the original name of Halloween, from the time of early Christianity in the Celtic culture of British Isles |
| Edgar Allen Poe | famous, 19th century, American poet/writer who lived/worked part of his life in Richmond,VA where the house he lived in is now a museum |
| The Raven | famous, scary poem by Edgar Allen Poe about a man suffering terrible fear and loss who believes a large, black bird is speaking to him |
