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Mexico does not celebrate Halloween instead, they celebrate "The day of the dead".
Traditions connected with the holiday include honoring the deceased using calaveras and aztec marigold flowers known as cempazúchitl, building home altars called ofrendas with the favorite foods and beverages of the departed, and visiting graves with these items as gifts for the deceased. The celebration is not solely focused on the dead, as it is also common to give gifts to friends such as candy sugar skulls, to share traditional pan de muerto with family and friends, and to write light-hearted and often irreverent verses in the form of mock epitaphs dedicated to living friends and acquaintances, a literary form known as calaveras literarias.
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1. The Headless Horseman is based off of the Dullahann, an irish creature who represents death.
2. Stories of the Headless Horseman originated hundreds of years ago in Ireland. Since then many different stories have been told.
3. In some narratives the Headless Horseman carries off the deceased in a black carriage, representing a death in the family.
4. The Headless Horseman is afraid of gold, but no one knows why. In Legendaria it's because his magic can't affect those protected by gold.
5. In "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by American author Washington Irving, a man was decapitated by a cannonball in the middle of war and his spirit returns in the form of the Headless Horseman, which we have as a playable character in our Kickstarter Legends for Legendaria.
6. In some stores the Headless Horseman has an axe, in others a flaming jack o'lantern, but the most gruesome is that of a person's spinal column as a whip!
If you're a fan of the Headless Horseman and tabletop games, consider backing our Legendaria 2020 Kickstarter or getting the previous version of the game here to play as him and several others! He returns for Halloween.
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Here is a tidbit of when Hersheys Peanut butter cups were created.
In 1917, Harry Burnett Reese moved to Hershey, where he was employed as a dairyman for the chocolate company and later worked at its factory. Inspired by Milton Hershey’s success, Reese, who eventually had 16 children, began making candies in his basement. In the mid-1920s, he built a factory of his own and produced an assortment of candies, including peanut butter cups, which he invented in 1928 and made with Hershey’s chocolate. During World War II, a shortage of ingredients led Reese to pull the plug on his other candies and focus on his most popular product, peanut butter cups. In 1963, Hershey acquired the H.B Reese Candy Company.
