Spooktoberthon Check In - Week 3 Progress

Hey Bookdragons! Halfway through the month and you should either be loving the countdown to Halloween or having nightly nightmares 😆

Spooktoberthon Week 3 Reading Progress

💀 Crimson Peak by Nancy Holder - 🌟🌟🌟🌟 

💀  Slasher Girls and Monster Boys Anthology - 🌟🌟🌟🌟
💀 The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher - DNF @ 25%
💀 Slayer by Kiersten White 🌟🌟🌟🌟 

Currently Reading

💀 The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon

Still to Read

💀 The Witch of Blackbird Pond

💀 #murdertrending by Gretchen McNeill

💀 Light as A Feather

🍂 Spooktober Movie Progress 🍂

Watched

🍂 Practical Magic 

🍂 Carrie

🍂 The House of Wax (Vincent Price Version)

🍂 Addams Family  & Addams Family Values 

🍂 Halloween

🍂 Casper

🍂 The Haunted Mansion

🍂 Tower of Terror

🍂 Friday the Thirteenth

🍂 The Fog

🍂 Crimson Peak

🍂 The Haunting

🍂 Bad Times at the El Royale 

🍂 The Legend of Lucy Keyes

🍂 Sleepy Hollow

🍂 The Legend of Hell House
🍂 Prom Night
🍂 House of Wax (2005 Remake)
🍂 Scream 1-4
🍂 When A Stranger Calls

Still to Go

🍂 I Know What You Did Last Summer

🍂 I Still Know What You Did Last Summer

🍂 Hocus Pocus

🍂 Halloweentown 1-4

🍂 Monsterville: Cabinet of Souls

History of Halloween #3

 Costumes - Why do we dress up at Halloween?

Going back to the Celtic/Pagan celebration of Samhain and the veil between our world and the next being at it's thinnest people thought they would encounter spirits on this day. And they suspected not all of them would be Casper the friendly ghost types. 

To outsmart and ward off spirits with evil intent people donned masks when they left home after dark to trick spirits into thinking the wearers were fellow spirits.