Now this is no small talk -- the Halloween Trivia are anything but petty ! Anyone would love to know the interesting tidbits on Halloween. Among a pretty long list of Halloween Trivia, here’s enlisted some which are worth taking note of.

Halloween Trivia

No wonder a holiday as big as Halloween will have its huge share of trivia attached to it. But the worthiest part is that the Halloween trivia are striking in nature and are therefore, sure to interest anyone who happens to spare a look-over. So here are some very occupying Halloween trivia enlisted for you. The list is not exhaustive, but it sure is worth knowing ! Check out:

• The 2nd most commercially successful holiday in the US calendar after Christmas is Halloween.
• Orange and black are Halloween colors because orange is the color of Fall, of harvest and black stands for death, decay and darkness.
• In the United States, Halloween candy sales average about 2 billion dollars in one year.
• Black cats are believed to be witch's familiars who protected their powers. It’s also believed that witches sometimes move about in the guise of black cats.
• If a person has a joint brow, hairy palms, tattoos, and a long middle finger, it indicates traces of a werewolf in him/ her.
• The Count Dracula Society was founded in the year 1962.
• For many decades, the United Nations Childrens' Fund (UNICEF) has given out boxes to children so that they can collect money on Halloween. During the 1950's, some US public schools prohibited these boxes, because they suspected it to be a Communist plot.
• An old belief in England is that the best time to spot fairies is between twilight and midnight with the best days Halloween (October 31), May Day, Midsummer Day (June 24), Lady Day (March 25) and Christmas (December 25).
• For more than 20 years, the town of Hancock, MD has declined to assign a specific date for Halloween celebrations. They hold that if they set aside a particular date for the holiday and a kid gets hurt during the trick-or-treating then the town might be liable for the injuries and damages.
• The school board of Hillsborough NJ shuns all religious observances in its premises. They have replaced Halloween with a ‘Fall Festival’ and Valentine's Day with ‘Special Person Day’.
• A few Evangelical Christian churches offer substitute ways for Halloween celebrations. While some inspire their associates to distribute Bible tracts along with or instead of Halloween candy treats, others hold Trunk-or-Treat parties, in which members park their cars in the parking lot of the church, distribute treats from the car-trunks and invite the children into the church for a Christian party. Costumes are permitted only if it’s in keeping with the Christian environment.
• This trivia is quite interesting too—It’s said that if you can catch a leaf as it falls below, you would not catch a cold during the following winter, and if you catch it between Michaelmas (September 29) and Halloween (October 31), the following year would be a fulfilling and prosperous one.

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