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- 2. A cultivar of the squash plant that is round, with smooth, slightly ribbed skin, and deep yellow to orange coloration.
- 3. An apparition of a dead person that is believed to appear or become manifest to the living, typically as a nebulous image.
- 6. Named after the phenomenon of strange light flickering over peat bogs, also called will-o'-the-wisps.
- 7. Also known as “souling” and the children were called “soulers”. This activity didn't re-emerge in the US until the 1920s and 1930s.
- 9. A widely held but unjustified belief in supernatural causation leading to certain consequences of an action or event, or a practice based on such a belief.
- 11. A man who practices witchcraft; a sorcerer.
- 13. A symbol of bad luck, especially if one crosses paths with a person, which is believed to be an omen of misfortune; in Britain and Japan, having one cross your path is considered good luck. Often suspected of being the familiars of witches.
- 14. An inscribed headstone marking a grave.
- 16. A mythological or folkloric human with the ability to shapeshift into a wolf or a therianthropic hybrid wolf-like creature, either purposely or after being placed under a curse or affliction.
- 18. A criminal who plunders at sea; commonly attacking merchant vessels, though often pillaging port towns.
- 19. Something that is disturbing and horrifying because of involvement with or depiction of death and injury.
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- 1. A benevolent fictional character with superhuman powers.
- 4. An internal or external framework of bone, cartilage, or other rigid material supporting or containing the body of an animal or plant.
- 5. A place often perceived as being inhabited by disembodied spirits of the deceased who may have been former residents or were familiar with the property.
- 8. The time of night when creatures such as witches, demons, and ghosts are thought to appear and to be at their most powerful and black magic to be most effective.
- 10. A short epitaph or idiomatic expression wishing tranquility in the afterlife to someone who has died.
- 12. The spooky-looking result of household dust attaching itself to an abandoned spider web.
- 15. Long, loud, piercing cry or cries expressing excitement, great emotion, or pain.
- 17. A deceased human or other animal whose skin and organs have been preserved by either intentional or accidental exposure to chemicals, extreme cold, very low humidity, or lack of air, so that the recovered body does not decay further if kept in cool and dry conditions.