Halloween

Person · Open Library

Works

24

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Group

Country

US

Active from

1984

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

96,546

Total plays

936,144

There are 10 different groups/artists with this name: 1.) Halloween, an American heavy metal band that formed in 1984. They bill themselves as Detroit's Horror Show. Their carrer spans from 1983 to date. www.halloweentheband.us 2) Italian heavy metal band (1981-1987). 3.) Halloween, a French symphonic prog band. They existed between 1988-2002 and recorded 5 albums. 4.) Halloween, an obscure 70's Disco-Band. They only recorded one album, "Come See What's It All About". <a href="https://www.l

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Recent publications · Crossref

1 total works indexed

1. An interlaboratory evaluation of the Syrian hamster embryo cell transformation assay using eighteen coded chemicals

   · 1988 · cited 38x

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Quotes

• “I think if human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. Wouldn't life be more interesting that way? And now that I think about it, why the heck don't they? Who made the rule that everybody has to dress like sheep 364 days of the year? Think of all the people you'd meet if they were in costume every day. People would be so much easier to talk to - like talking to dogs.”
• “Halloween was close, our favorite holiday because it carried none of the pain-in-the-ass holiness of Christmas and still there was free candy.”
• “In receiving something in their hands, they establish, on a symbolic level that they do not understand, a brotherly exchange between the visible and the invisible worlds. That is why the Halloween masquerades . . . are in fact sacred ceremonies.”
• “It is as if French society were looking for a kind of civil religion capable of replacing Christian symbolism … At Halloween the dead are imitated and their ‘ghosts’ come back to frighten us and threaten us with death. On All Saints’ Day, in contrast, we affirm that the departed are alive and that we are promised to rejoin them in the City of God.”
• “Halloween at the end of the millennium has become a major party night for adults, arguably the most important after New Year’s Eve. An estimated 65 percent of American adults take part in Halloween, beyond, that is, simply handing out candy.”
• “...the rituals surrounding souling, in which supplicants moved from door to door asking for food in return for a prayer for the dead, bear a resemblance to modern Halloween customs, especially since soulers went from house to house with hallowed-out turnip lanterns, whose candle connoted a soul in purgatory...souling customs offer a clue to the survival of Hallowmass in England after the Protestant Reformation.”

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Wikidata facts

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