Long before Halloween became a parade of costumes, candy and skeleton-covered front lawns, Martha Russell Orne was explaining how to throw the party. Imagine Halloween without miniature candy bars, elaborate costumes, inflatable lawn monsters or an entire store aisle devoted to plastic skeletons. ...
Why Do We Bob for Apples Anyway?
Before it became a goofy Halloween party game, grabbing an apple with your teeth could supposedly tell you something much more important: who you were going to marry. At some point, somebody looked at a perfectly good apple floating in a tub of water and decided the logical thing to do was put ...