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1. Witch
We always see the witch every Halloween. We know witches are someone, usually female, that practices witchcraft or should we say magic?
There’s different varieties of witch costumes to choose from as well. May it be the sexy kind or the ugly kind or everything in between.
Witchcraft have been practiced in different cultures since forever.
People that are witches do not look any different from any other human being but where did the green skinned and ugly witches came from? It was mostly just from story tellers of folklore which usually depicted evil as ugly. I mean, which is more scary, an old crooked woman with boils on her face or a homely woman with fair skin?
Then came The Wizard of Oz. That’s the start of the green skinned witches that we know today.
But witches and Halloween always come hand in hand. This is because, during the ancient festival of Samhain which is a Gaelic festival marking the end of the harvest season celebrated from the sunset of 31 October (yup during Halloween), witches were thought to always have this ritual of lathering ointment on their skin to give themselves an ethereal appearance.
During that time as well, people believed that on Halloween night, the spirits of the dead could roam freely and so people believed witches were doing no good during Halloween and thus Witches are always associated with Halloween.