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[fafa]

Please forgive my curiosity, but I have heard about 'the season' and 'Halloween' a few times over the network, and since neither the time seems relevant to where I come from, nor the name familiar - would anyone care to explain what these two are about?

Thank you for your time.

[ He's pretty sure, from what he's observed, that there are more than a few people who might want to know the answer. And especially a certain someone is not likely to ask unless it becomes important. Probably. And he's even being polite about it. ]

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[foolishjustice]

The Halloween season is the tenth month of the year, and it celebrates all sorts of supernatural things.

Haloween is the last day of the month, and isn't just a harvest festival. It's also a day when the barrier between the living world and the world of spirits is thinner, so people believed that ghosts and monsters can appear more easily. They carved radishes into scary faces to ward off the evil ones, though these days we use pumpkins instead.

It's also common to dress up as something scary or fantastical, and costume parties around this time of year are popular.

[fafa]

Thank you, that is informative.

Nobody thought that carving 'scary' faces might repel other humans but attract the... evil ones?