Full of spooky artworks, ephemera, vintage-inspired makes, rhymes, and stories, Creating your Vintage Hallowe’en celebrates the folklore and traditions surrounding this delightfully unique holiday. Read how folk used to celebrate with dressing up, fortune-telling games, parties, and much pleasurable spookiness, and recreate your own vintage Hallowe’en with old-fashioned projects, including a carved Jack o’ lantern, a witch costume, and fun decorations for your home. Creating your Vintage Hallowe’en is packed full of little-known facts about the origins of Hallowe’en customs such as bobbing for apples and carving lanterns out of pumpkins, while the charming makes and vintage artworks featuring chubby, red-cloaked witches, sleekly silhouetted black cats, cute kittens, cheery goblins, and smiling spectres, will inspire you to have your own vintage-style Hallowe’en celebration.

Full of spooky artworks, ephemera, vintage-inspired makes, rhymes, and stories, Creating Your Vintage Hallowe’en celebrates the folklore and traditions surrounding this delightfully unique holiday. Read how folk used to celebrate with dressing up, fortune-telling games, parties, and plenty of pleasurable spookiness, then recreate your own vintage Hallowe’en with old-fashioned projects, including a carved Jack o’ lantern, a witch costume, and fun decorations for your home. This book is packed full of little-known facts about the origins of Hallowe’en customs such as bobbing for apples and carving faces into pumpkins, while the charming makes and vintage artworks featuring red-cloaked witches, sleekly silhouetted black cats, cute kittens, cheery goblins, and smiling specters will inspire you to have your own vintage-style Hallowe’en celebration.

Dead pumpkin's society: school ghouls, potted pumpkins, scarecrow wreath, glass goblin wreath, quick-fix berry vine wreath, instant ancestors, Gaelic cross, witch clips, kitchen witch night-light, corn on the cob night-light, clay pot candle holder, those amazing maize brothers, Hallowe'en hoop-la, Spook Nest Inn, the gourd guys, old-fashioned party fans and favors, canned Hallowe'en, party hat lights.

Fill an eerie, 3-story house with bats, spiders, a vampire, tombstone, skeleton, mummy, black cats, and other fiendish fabrications.

Halloween Craft.

This book is intended to give the reader an account of the origin and history of Hallowe'en, how it absorbed some customs belonging to other days in the year,—such as May Day, Midsummer, and Christmas. The context is illustrated by selections from ancient and modern poetry and prose, related to Hallowe'en ideas. Those who wish suggestions for readings, recitations, plays, and parties, will find the lists in the appendix useful, in addition to the books on entertainments and games to be found in any public library. Special acknowledgment is made to Messrs. E. P. Dutton & Company for permission to use the poem entitled "Hallowe'en" from "The Spires of Oxford and Other Poems," by W. M. Letts; to Messrs. Longmans, Green & Company for the poem "Pomona," by William Morris; and to the Editors of The Independent for the use of five poems.