{"id":1492,"date":"2019-10-29T22:06:53","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T22:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.onlinesalespro.com\/?p=1492"},"modified":"2020-09-12T09:28:10","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T09:28:10","slug":"getting-spooked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlinesalespro.com\/blog\/getting-spooked\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Spooked"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People certainly enjoy this spooky holiday.&nbsp; They\u2019ll dress up their houses with skeletons and spider webs and lights.&nbsp; Why?  To scare off the little trick-or-treaters?  Or perhaps everyone &#8211; way down deep &#8211; likes to get a little spooked.&nbsp; This holiday has become the 2nd highest profit-making day in the United States and perhaps beyond, because guess what?  Rumor has it that this holiday\u2019s roots are in Ireland.&nbsp; Let\u2019s find out more about Halloween.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Odd Facts<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1927, a newspaper in Albert, Canada, mentioned trick-or-treating &#8211; and the term and the custom stuck.&nbsp; Boston competed with the moon by lighting 30,000 jack-o-lanterns simultaneously.  Back when all this started, jack-o-lanterns were carved out of turnips.&nbsp; (Huh?  What does a turnip even look like?)  Potatoes and beets were also used.  New York City launches the largest Halloween parade with over 5000 participants and two million bystanders.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Halloween is big business &#8211; over $6 billion dollars are spent on costumes, candy, and decorations.&nbsp; Guess why Daylight Savings Time starts on the first weekend in November?  Yep.  Candy manufacturers lobbied hard to make that come true.&nbsp; This rarely happens, but next year, astronomers predict that we may just have a full moon on Halloween.  Won\u2019t that worry those who have Samhainophobia (a fear of Halloween) even more?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Odd Fictions<br><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you knew the sinister fables that sparked this invented holiday, you might decide to stay in your house on Halloween, lock the doors, and turn off the lights.&nbsp; For instance, why do we carve jack-o-lanterns?  (By the way, the largest pumpkin on record weighed in at 2,323 pounds!)  As fable has it, a man named Jack in Ireland was relegated to roaming this world after doing some mischief.&nbsp; He supposedly uses a lantern to warn others to right their wrongs.  Hence &#8211; Jack \u201cof the\u201d Lantern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Want to see a witch?&nbsp; According to mystery and myth, the recipe is simple &#8211; just wear your clothes inside-out and walk backward.&nbsp; (I better warn my grandsons.  They do stuff like that all the time.)  Apparently when you do both, a witch will appear at the strike of midnight.&nbsp; No, thank you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Odd Practices<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nowadays children are told not to talk to strangers, but on Halloween night in the United States, we encourage them to go door-to-door and take candy from strangers. In Scotland, a popular ritual on this day is called dooking &#8211; one must be blindfolded and try to find and eat a piece of pastry hanging from a string.&nbsp; In Japan, October 31st is a time to think of those who have passed &#8211; visiting gravesites and cleaning the areas around them.  A lighted lantern released into a river or a lake represents the return of their loved ones to whatever is beyond.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many full of mischief emphasized the word \u201ctrick\u201d on this holiday &#8211; so much so that some places considered banning Halloween.&nbsp; Not to give any of you ideas, but one such prank would be setting a cabbage stalk on fire and stuffing it into the keyhole in someone\u2019s front door releasing an odiferous scent.&nbsp; The unsuspecting homeowner would return to plug his nose and exclaim, \u201cP U!\u201d  Some pranks went well beyond toilet papering a house or smashing a pumpkin &#8211; actually causing damage to people and buildings.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maybe it\u2019s best not to pull any pranks during this holiday.&nbsp; That\u2019s what we think.  We would like to treat you, though, to a software that will launch your business to the world of the Internet out there.&nbsp; Visit us at <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinesalespro.com\/\">Online Sales Pro<\/a> and see for yourself.&nbsp; Sometimes we folks here at Online Sales Pro will be full of mischief, but not when it comes to helping you promote your products or services.&nbsp; We\u2019d rather unmask our software so you can see it for what it truly is!<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People certainly enjoy this spooky holiday.&nbsp; They\u2019ll dress up their houses with skeletons and spider webs and lights.&nbsp; Why? To scare off the little trick-or-treaters? 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