Halloween - The Science Behind it All

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Across
  1. 4. Thought to be familiars of witches helping them with their dark magic
  2. 5. the rate of this event increased with increases in women’s rights
  3. 7. All _________ day, a festival created by the church to replace Celtic traditions with its own.
  4. 10. celts wore this to be able to leave their homes and not be noticed by all of the ghosts
  5. 12. promoting gender ___________ will help women succeed
  6. 14. bobbing for these, and getting the first one, meant you got married first
  7. 15. someone to blame for a situation that they may not have played a part
  8. 16. this plaque was made worse by the killing of cats due to witch hunts
  9. 17. hatred or discrimination of women
Down
  1. 1. beliefs in the supernatural that help create a climate of fear
  2. 2. another name for Halloween
  3. 3. superstitious communities killed cats to root out ____________.
  4. 6. killing cats did this to the number of rats in Europe
  5. 8. many historians believed that witch hunters made up witchcraft to bring down this type of woman.
  6. 9. people give these to children on Halloween so they don’t play any tricks on them.
  7. 11. festival celebrated by the Celts that signified the end of the year and the one day that the dead could walk the earth.
  8. 13. some people still believe that black cats bring this