Symbols of Halloween

The quintessential symbols of Halloween fall into three major categories:

- Symbols of death include graveyards, ghosts, skeletons, haunted houses.
- Symbols of evil and misfortune are witches, goblins, black cats.
- Symbols of harvest are pumpkins, scarecrows, corn shocks and candy corn.

Ghosts and Skeletons : ghosts are universal symbols for the departed. Skeletons and bones are symbols of death. Samhain is the festival of the dead, so it seems fitting that ghosts and skeletons would be used. It was thought that on this night of the year, the dead roamed the earth freely in their passage to the hereafter.

Spiders and Webs : spider and web represent dark, spooky places and haunted houses long forgotten.