Vintage and Antique Halloween Ephemera

Hallowe’en, a shortened version of “All Hallow’s Eve,” is a holiday blended from Christian, Celtic, and pagan harvest festivals, which marked the transition from fall to winter. Halloween takes place on October 31st, the night before All Saints Day, and is traditionally centered around remembering the dead and celebrating the year’s bounty. Like the Mexican holiday of Dia de los Muertos, Halloween was seen as a time when the worlds of the...Continue Reading