Halloween night is approaching and how traditions are handed down and the night of spirits and stories of fear. Even if it doesn’t really belong to our culture, Halloween is celebrated and loved by children, who on this occasion disguise themselves as ghosts, witches and scary monsters. During the parties organized by parents to entertain their children, in addition to the usual trick or treat , we gather around a lamp or a flashlight and listen to the most famous scary stories. Here are the scary stories most loved by children. The scariest phrases and aphorisms in literature
Fear is a recurring theme in world literature. Here are the most beautiful phrases about fear that we have chosen from the great writers Jack O’Lantern and the Halloween Pumpkin
Once upon a time there was a bad-tempered slacker and gambler, addicted to alcohol, named Stingy Jack. On Halloween night, after getting drunk, Stingy Jack finds himself in front of the Devil who wants to take possession of his soul. Jack asked the Devil to be allowed one last shot. Obtained the permission, he complained that he did not even have a penny to pay for the drink, so I beg the devil to turn into a 6 pence coin.
Once the mutation occurred, Jack grabbed the coin and put it in his wallet, having the characteristic of a cross embroidered on it. Irremediably imprisoned, in order to regain his freedom, the Devil accepted the pact proposed by Jack, which consisted in postponing his death for a year.
On the following All Saints’ Eve, the Devil returns to obtain the soul of man. This time Jack offered him a bet: he would never be able to get out of a tree again. The Devil smiled and accepted, climbing up a nearby tree. It was then that Jack carved a cross into the bark, which prevented the Devil from jumping down.
With victory in hand, Jack proposed to the Devil a pact: he would have canceled the cross, if he had pledged not to tempt him again. After about a year, Jack died. When he knocked on the doors of Heaven he was told that he could not enter because he had led a dissolute life full of sins. Once in Hell, even the Devil denied him permission to enter, because he was still offended by how he had been mocked. The Devil gives Jack an ember to make himself light in the dark limbo. Jack did his best to make that light last longer and placed it in an emptied turnip, thus obtaining a lantern. Jack has since been nicknamed Jack O’Lantern.
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A fascinating journey through ancient Celtic traditions to discover the history and etymology of Halloween night The Loch Ness Monster
“That Tuesday afternoon seemed to never end. Suddenly the bell rang and the students poured out onto the street. Jane and Susy, at the first fork, turned towards Loch Ness and began walking along a path that wound through brambles and thorny bushes.
– Come on Jane. Remember we need to be back before dark.
They passed through a grove of dwarf firs beyond which the lake opened. The beach that bordered it was muddy. Susy and Jane sank their shoes into the grayish mud. The anthracite sky was scary. The girls walked to a cliff that was mirrored on the surface of the lake.
Let’s sit here – Susy suggested, pointing to an easily accessible rocky spur. The lake was quiet. The water was slightly rippled by the evening breeze.
There’s no one down there, it was a dream, you have to convince yourself, Jane – said Susy warmly.
But her friend was trembling, she was scared! Suddenly something seemed to stir behind them. A shadow rises from the lake.
Jane and Susy turned as if irresistibly attracted to something. The lake was pitch black. Then, in the middle, a giant bubble forms. A terrifying roar followed that vision and two bright red eyes lit up on the surface of the lake. Then a frightening body appeared, resembling a dinosaur with tentacles: a giant disgusting monster, half reptile and half octopus. Susy and Jane couldn’t move: they looked like marble. They were found in that same spot in the evening, safe and sound, but they no longer remembered anything of that afternoon on Lake Ness. ” The books to read on Halloween night
What better time than Halloween night to curl up in an armchair and throw yourself headlong into reading a scary story The Headless Horseman
On a cold winter’s night, a man of Dutch origin was walking down the street that led from the tavern to his home. The path at one point skirted the cemetery of Sleepy Hollow, where legend had it that a headless German soldier was buried who had fought, as a mercenary in the pay of the British, against the American revolutionaries. The way home was long and, although the weather had warmed up a little in the previous days, there was still some snow left on the ground.
The Dutchman therefore thinks of crossing the cemetery to shorten the road, even if it gave him a little chills. It was pitch dark and the only light came from his lantern.
As fear continued to pervade him, he saw a distant light. As he approached, however, he realized that it came from an unnamed tomb, from which a fire soon emerged that quickly transformed into a figure. It was the horse with a headless rider on it that he had heard about so many times in the tavern. Because the pumpkin is the symbol of Halloween. Journey into Italian folklore
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The Dutchman let out a terrible scream and immediately ran away, stumbling in the snow. He could hear the gallop of the horse behind him, but kept the necessary clarity to look for a bridge, because the legends said that the spirits were afraid to pass over the water. He caught up with him and passed him, almost rolling in the mud, before he was able to take a second look at the knight, who was wearing a military uniform.
The Dutchman hid in the bushes for an hour, but nothing happened. Eventually he braced himself and walked out, quickly making his way home via the longest road. On reaching his destination, he told his wife everything and within a few days the valley knew what had happened. There were those who claimed that the ghost had risen to look for his head, lost in battle, and those who said that he was returning to fight for the conquest of Chatterton Hill. But since then no one has dared venture into Sleepy Hollow Cemetery at night.
