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The hidden health horrors lurking in your halloween treats
Shibuya’s mayor is urging people not to gather for Halloween amid concerns about rowdy behaviour and rising visitor numbers.
One night of sweets won’t harm your child. But daily sugar overload can affect sleep, health and even mood.
A contender for this year’s best horror picture, ‘Weapons,’ is part of film traditions that conjure terror out of stillness, partly through jump scares.
Poor quality contact lenses can cause painful, serious injuries and infections.
Sources as old as Pliny the Younger, the ancient Roman lawyer and writer, tell stories of houses that are haunted.
Once a modest fall festivity, Halloween has transformed into a monthslong commercial phenomenon. You can hardly blame retailers.
Medieval people believed that witches would transform into hedgehogs to steal milk.
Women in early modern Wales typically dressed in long skirts, large woollen shawls, and tall, black hats. Could they have inspired stereotypes of the witch?
Students in this literature course read a range of novels, short stories and more on grave robbing, murder, terror and grief.
In the 16th and 17th centuries, even something as simple as a mole could have had you accused of being a witch.
As the election nears, it seems everyone is afraid.
Here are some of the triggers that can help social media posts explode online.
Freddy turns his victims’ fears or aspirations – their dreams – against them. Happy Halloween!
Demons were considered very real and very threatening throughout the medieval and early-modern periods.
The components of one Snickers bar showcase several common processes used in candy science.
Folklorists created a through line from the Celtic pagan festival of Samhain to Halloween. But the Halloween we know today has more to do with the English, a 9th century pope and American consumerism.
Horror movies allow us to confront our deepest fears through the safety of make-believe.
A behavioral ecologist explains the reciprocal social relationships vampire bats maintain, in sickness and in health.
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