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A Happy Halloween
Hold your candles steady
And keep a sharp lookout
For back among the shadows
You'll see goblins peeping out.
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Marion Paull (Creating Your Vintage Hallowe'en: The folklore, traditions, and some crafty makes)
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Shattered Silence" (aka "When Michael Calls") for that early 1970s Halloween school carnival feel. It stars a young Michael Douglas and has decidedly autumnal feel. The nostalgic/vintage Halloween also includes the classic elements of the season from ghosts made of sheets and witches flying on broomsticks to pumpkin patches, corn mazes, apple cider, apple bobbing, fall leaves, Sleepy Hollow, and the like. You might start getting inspired with some candy of your childhood with candy crate collections – 1950s, 1960s
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Sharon Day (Adult Halloween: Taking Back the Season!)
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Pixie, kobold, elf, and sprite,
All are on their rounds tonight;
In the wan moon's silver ray,
Thrives their helter-skelter play."
From "Hallowe'en" by Joel Benton (1832-1911),
published in Harper's Weekly, October 31, 1896
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Marion Paull (Creating Your Vintage Hallowe'en: The folklore, traditions, and some crafty makes)
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Turn your boots toward the street
Leave your garters on your feet,
Put your stockings on your head,
You'll dream of the one you're going to wed.
Traditional rhyme
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Marion Paull (Creating Your Vintage Hallowe'en: The folklore, traditions, and some crafty makes)
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When witches go riding,
And black cats are seen,
The moon laughs and whispers,
'Tis near Hallowe'en.
Anon.
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Marion Paull (Creating Your Vintage Hallowe'en: The folklore, traditions, and some crafty makes)
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Gay costumes are half the fun at the Halloween party.
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Dennison Manufacturing Company (Dennison's Bogie Book: A 1925 Guide for Vintage Decorating and Entertaining at Halloween and Thanksgiving)