Is carving a pumpkin part of your Samhain/Halloween ritual? If so, you’re not alone. 44% of Americans planned to carve a pumpkin in 2022. But have you ever wondered why we carve cute, scary, or creepy faces into gutted pumpkins and leave them glowing on the porch? It seems like a strange tradition when you […]
It’s a day of bad luck and superstition for many people in the Western world. Friday the 13th is so ominous that there are even official terms to describe the date-based phobia—paraskevidekatriaphobia and friggatriskaidekaphobia. Paraskevidekatriaphobia (say that five times fast) was coined by Dr. Donald Dossey as the medical term for the extreme irrational fear […]
