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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2011 5:05 pm
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2011 5:21 pm
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6. The largest pumpkin pie ever made was more than five feet in diameter and weighed more than 350 pounds. It used 80 pounds of cooked pumpkin, 36 pounds of sugar, and 12 dozen eggs, and it took six hours to bake. FALSE- largest one is currently 20 feet in diameter according to 2010 records
7. Halloween had its beginnings in an ancient, pre-Christian Celtic festival of the dead. if by pre-christian you mean pegan than TRUE, if your not referring to pegans than FALSE
8. All Hallows Eve is the evening before All Saints Day which is celebrated on November 1 TRUE
9. Only one species of bat out of almost 950, drink blood. It is the Vampire Bat that lives in Central and South America. And the blood it prefers is NOT human blood, but blood of cattle and birds. TRUE
10. El día de los muertos(Day of the Dead), a fiesta observed in Mexico and other Spanish-speaking cultures on Nov. 1 shares some of its history and roots with Halloween. FALSE its more like all saints day.
11. A haunting is a kind of 'recording' of a past event on an environment, such as a house, building or a battlefield. True.
12. In Ireland, it has been frequently claimed that gems and crystals possess the power to hold curses. TRUE
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