Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen

Both are known for wearing a large number of accessories, and large sunglasses. Still other Christians hold the view that the holiday is not Satanic in origin or practice and that it holds no threat to the spiritual lives of children. Though both have become style icons, Mary-Kate dresses more boho- (also called homeless-)chic, while Ashley is more conventionally stylish. Some modern Christian churches commonly offer a "fall festival" or harvest-themed alternative to Halloween celebrations. Some known differences:. Other Christians, however, continue to connect this holiday with All Saints Day. A popular allegation among fans, albeit without reliable scientific confirmation, is that, although over a billion people are acquainted with the image of the Olsen twins, fewer than 400 can actually tell them apart. In some areas, complaints from these fundamentalist Christians that the schools were endorsing a Pagan religion have led the schools to stop distributing UNICEF boxes.

. Among these groups it is believed to have developed Satanic influences. The song also makes references about the 2004 movie New York Minute which they both starred in. Some fundamentalist Christian groups consider Halloween a Pagan holiday and may refer to it as "the most evil day of the year," refusing to allow their children to participate. The music video, which was also released in 2005, features the two as puppets who engage in lesbian activity together. The mingling of Christian and pagan traditions in the early centuries following the founding of the Christian Church have left many modern Christians uncertain of how they should react towards this holiday. The song was released as a single in 2005. The secular celebration of Halloween may loom larger in contemporary imagination than does All Saints Day.

There are mentioned in the song Ass Like That by Eminem. The majority of Christians ascribe no doctrinal significance to Halloween, treating it as a purely secular entity devoted to celebrating imaginary spooks and handing out candy. Mary-Kate and Ashley were ranked at number three on the VH1 program 100 Greatest Child Stars. A dialect survey (http://hcs.harvard.edu/~golder/dialect/staticmaps/q_110.html) begun in 1999 by Harvard University indicates that there are a number of terms for this particular day of the year, but that the vast majority (70.38%) have no special word for it. In the episode of Family Guy "Fifteen Minutes of Shame", the Olsen twins replaced Brian and Stewie in the show-within-a-show The Real Live Griffins. The most common wrong-doing is trashing people's houses, lawns, and trees within property with tons of toilet paper. They are reported to be worth $150 million each [3] (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3672417.stm). Many youths involved in mischief night would be considered too old for traditional trick-or-treating.

The twins received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in April 2004 [2] (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3672417.stm). Some of the acts range from minor vandalism to theft, or even violence. Both are doing internships for credit, Mary-Kate with photographer Annie Leibovitz, and Ashley with fashion designer, Zac Posen. The night before Halloween, known in some areas as "Mischief night" or "Devil's Night," is often associated with destructive activities performed by adolescents. The two are currently (as of March 2005) going through some turmoil, living separately and hardly seeing each other, at least until their apartment is finished. The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) reported that there was "a fair for horses and cattle on the last Thursday in October.". Ashley Olsen announced on February 16 that she was suing the company for about 40 million dollars for making that claim. Chiselborough Fair is memorialized by Fair Place in the village.

In February of 2005, Ashley Olsen was featured on the cover of National Enquirer, a gossip magazine that claimed that she was using drugs. Sources: on-line report from the Western Gazette and a National Geographic radio segment. They are currently studying at New York University at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study. The event has spread since about 1960 to the neighboring village of Chiselborough. The Strange Truth About Twins questions the supposed fact that they are fraternal twins, citing that just because they are different-handed, doesn't mean they have different genetics [1] (http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/columns/?article=twinsmain). Children carry the punkies now. The same day, rumors began to spring that Mary-Kate Olsen was rehabilitating for a cocaine addiction, contrary to the previous rumors of her having anorexia. The drunken husbands saw the eerie lights, thought they were "goolies" (the restless spirits of children who had died before they were baptized), and fled in terror.

The ad in which they would have appeared read, in part: "we want our fans to be healthy". George went looking for their wayward husbands at the fair held nearby at Chiselborough, the last Thursday in October, but first hollowed out mangel wurzels in order to make lanterns to light their way. It was reported, on July 7, that the Olsens' participation in the Got Milk campaign would be cancelled, mainly due to Mary-Kate's illness. The story goes that the wives of Hinton St. Rumors started swirling that Mary-Kate had also attempted suicide, the headlines accompanied by a photograph of a scar on her wrist. Though the custom is only attested over the last century, and the mangel-wurzel itself was introduced into English agriculture in the late 18th century, "Punkie Night" appears to be much older even than the fable that now accounts for it. In this episode, Ashley, Mary-Kate, and Amy Poehler posing as photographers, yelled to "Mary-Kate", "You're too skinny! Eat a sandwich!". Punkie is derived from pumpkin or punk, meaning tinder.

She herself had poked fun at the rumors on an episode of Saturday Night Live, which she had hosted with Ashley. They bring these around the village, collecting money and singing the punkie song. Gossip had swirled for months that her appearance was more and more drawn, but the actress and her management refused to discuss the issue. On this night, children carry lanterns made from hollowed-out mangel-wurzels (a kind of beet; in modern days, pumpkins are used) with faces carved into them. On June 22, 2004, it was revealed that Mary-Kate had entered a rehabilitation program for the eating disorder anorexia nervosa. George in the county of Somerset in England. No one was injured in the accident. "Punkie Night" is observed on the last Thursday in October in the village of Hinton St.

Mary-Kate Olsen accidentally crashed into her bodyguard's car on May 21, 2004, when her brakes failed on a jammed Los Angeles freeway, and she could not stop in time to avoid crashing into his car. Samhain is still heralded by the baking of kornigou. Kornigou are cakes baked in the shape of antlers to commemorate the god of winter shedding his "cuckold" horns as he returns to his kingdom in the Otherworld. The film New York Minute was released to critical and commercial failure and ultimately became a box office bomb. In Celtic parts of western Brittany. On May 15, 2004, the girls co-hosted the season finale of Saturday Night Live. The distribution of soul cakes was encouraged by the church as a way to replace the ancient practice of leaving food and wine for roaming spirits at the Samhain. See Puck (mythology).
They also have a book series named Mary-Kate And Ashley In Action, where they are portrayed as secret spies, and has since been made into an animated series. Christians would promise to say prayers on behalf of dead relatives helping the soul's passage to heaven.

They starred in The Adventures of Mary-Kate and Ashley and the ABC show Two of a Kind (now rerun on ABC Family), as well as ABC Family's So Little Time. On November 2, All Souls Day, Beggars would walk from village to village begging for "soul cakes" - square pieces of bread with currants. As of 2004 the Olsen twins are popular figures in today's pre-teen market, following along the lines of such Hollywood child stars as Shirley Temple, Ron Howard and Macaulay Culkin among others. The custom of trick-or-treating is thought to have evolved from the European custom called souling, similar to the wassailing customs associated with Yuletide. Taking the world of pre-teens and children by storm, their names have become a very profitable industry, with their likeness seen in movies, posters, magazines, clothes, and even video games like Mary Kate and Ashley's Magical Mystery Mall. As a result Ireland is the only country where children never have school on Halloween and are therefore free to celebrate it in the ancient and time-honored fashion. Shortly after the end of Full House, they returned to the entertainment industry, riding the momentum of their role on Full House by heavily merchandising their image. All schools close for the following week for mid-term, commonly called the Halloween Break.

Because the producers did not want viewers to know that Michelle was played by twins, the sisters were originally credited as "Mary Kate Ashley Olsen", but later credited as separate people. The custom survives most accurately in Ireland, where the last Monday of October is a public holiday. The show was widely popular during the late 80s and early 90s, and both sisters played one character, Michelle Tanner, taking turns during the recordings to do so, in order to comply with child labor laws regarding child actors. It is only in the last decade that it has become popular in the South of England again, although in an entirely Americanized version. Born in Sherman Oaks, California, the Olsens started their acting careers on the television series Full House. However it remained popular in Scotland, Ireland and the North of England. Despite their near-identical looks, the pair are actually fraternal rather than identical twins. Observance of Halloween faded in the South of England from the 17th century onwards, being replaced by the commemoration of the Gunpowder Plot on November 5.

Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Fuller Olsen (born June 13, 1986) are twin American actresses who have appeared in television and films since the age of nine months. In the old Norse religion and its modern revival, Ásatrú, the day now known as Halloween was a blót which involved sacrifices to the gods and the blessing of food. The Challenge (2003). Neopagans still celebrate the sabbat of Samhain on Halloween, as well as also taking part in secular Halloween activities. When In Rome (2002). Hundreds of fires are still lit each year in Ireland on Halloween night. Getting There (2002). Each family then solemnly lit their hearth from the common flame, thus bonding the families of the village together.

Winning London (2001). Villagers cast the bones of the slaughtered cattle upon the flames; the word "bonfire" is thought to derive from these "bone fires." With the bonfire ablaze, the villagers extinguished all other fires. Holiday in the Sun (2001). Bonfires played a large part in the festivities. Our Lips Are Sealed (2000). These fires were intended to keep the homes warm and free from evil spirits such as "Sidhe" (pronounced "shee," most notable of which are the beán sidhe or banshees), because at this time of year it was believed that the invisible "gates" between this world and the spirit world were opened and free movement between both worlds was possible. Switching Goals (1999). When the morning of November 1 arrived, the Druids would give an ember from their fires to each family who would then take it home to start a new cooking fire.

Passport To Paris (1999). Druids in the British Isles would light fires and offer sacrifices of crops, animals and sometimes humans, and as they danced around the fires, the season of the sun would pass and the season of darkness would begin. Billboard Dad (1998). In the Druidic religion of the ancient Celts, the new year began with the winter season of Samhain on November 1. Just as shorter days signified the start of the new year, sundown also meant the start of a new day; therefore the harvest festival began every year on the night of October 31. To Grandmother's House We Go (1995). Other foods associated with the holiday:. How the West Was Fun (1994). It is said that whoever finds this ring will find his or her true love during the following year.

Double, Double, Toil and Trouble (1993). This is a light fruit cake into which a plain ring is placed before baking. New York Minute (2004). A Halloween custom which has survived unchanged to this day in Ireland is the baking (or more often nowadays the purchase) of a barmbrack (Irish "báirín breac"). Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003) (sequel) (cameo appearance). At the peak of this hysteria, some hospitals were offering to x-ray children's Halloween haul at no cost in order to look for such items. It Takes Two (1995) - The only film in which they don't play sisters. The vast majority of the reported cases turned out to be hoaxes, and the few that were real caused only minor injuries, but many parents were under the assumption that the practice was common.

The Little Rascals (1994) (cameo appearance). At one time candy apples were a common treat given to children, but this practice rapidly waned after widespread rumors that some individuals were embedding items like pins and razor blades in the apples that they would pass out to children. They are made by rolling whole apples in a sticky sugar syrup, and sometimes then rolling them in nuts. Because the holiday comes in the wake of the annual apple harvest, candy apples (also known as toffee apples) are a common treat at Halloween. The custom was widespread enough to be commemorated on greeting cards from the late nineteenth century.

However, if they were destined to die before they married, a skull would appear. In North America, unmarried women were frequently told that if they sat in a darkened room and gazed into a mirror on Halloween night, the face of their future husband would appear in the mirror. The wriggling of the slugs and the patterns subsequently left behind on the saucers were believed to portray the faces of the women's future spouses. In nineteenth-century Ireland, young women placed slugs in saucers sprinkled with flour.

A saucer containing earth means someone known to the player will die during the next year, a saucer containing water foretells travel, a coin means new wealth, a bean means poverty, etc. The contents of the saucer determine the person's life for the following year. The saucers are shuffled and the seated person then chooses one by touch. In Púicíní (pronounced "pook-eeny"), a game played in Ireland, a blindfolded person is seated in front of a table on which are placed several saucers.

Some games traditionally played at Halloween are forms of divination. Another common game involves hanging up treacle or syrup-coated scones by strings; these must be eaten without using hands while they remain attached to the string, an activity which inevitably leads to a very sticky face. The most common is bobbing for apples, in which apples float in a tub or a large basin of water; the participants must use their teeth to remove an apple from the basin. There are several games traditionally associated with Halloween parties.

Teenagers and adults instead often celebrate Halloween with costume parties or other social get-togethers. A child usually "grows out of" trick-or-treating by his or her teenage years. An estimate of $3.12 billion was made for the holiday spending. BIGresearch conducted a survey for the National Retail Federation in the US and found that 54.1 percent of consumers planned to buy a costume for Halloween 2004, spending $28.11 on average.

A program started by UNICEF involves the distribution of small boxes by schools to trick-or-treaters, in which they can collect small change from the houses they visit for donation to the charity. [1] (http://www.nrf.com/content/default.asp?folder=press/release2004&file=costumes1004.htm&bhcp=1). In 2001, after the September 11 attacks, for example, costumes of firefighters, police officers, and United States military personnel became popular among children. In 2004, an estimated 2.15 million children in the United States were expected to dress up as Spider-Man, the year's most popular costume. In recent years, it has become common for costumes to be based on themes other than traditional horror, such as dressing up as a character from a TV show or movie.

In nineteenth-century Scotland and Ireland the reason for wearing such fearsome (and non-fearsome) costumes was the belief that since the spirits that were abroad that night were essentially intent on doing harm, the best way to avoid this was to fool the spirits into believing that you were one of them. The stereotypical Halloween costume is a sheet with eyeholes cut in it as a ghost costume. Typical Halloween costumes have traditionally been monsters such as vampires, ghosts, witches, and devils. Before indoor plumbing was so widespread, tipping over or displacing outhouses was a popular form of trick.

Tricks play less of a role in modern Halloween, though the night before Halloween is often marked by pranks such as soaping windows, egging houses or stringing toilet paper through trees. In Scotland children or guisers will have to impress the members of the houses they visit with a song, trick, joke or dance in order to earn their treats. Children can often accumulate many treats on Halloween night, filling up entire pillow cases or shopping bags. Other house decoration themes (that are less scary) are used to entertain younger visitors.

Homes sometimes use sound effects and fog machines to help set a spooky mood. The main event of Halloween is trick-or-treating, also known as guising in Scotland, in which children dress up in costume disguises and go door-to-door in their neighborhood, ringing the bell and yelling "trick or treat!" (or, less frequently, "Halloween apples!") The occupants of the house (who might themselves dress in a scary costume) will then hand out small candies, miniature chocolate bars or other treats. Traditionally, something like this was done in order to scare evil spirits away. Many families that celebrate Halloween will carve a pumpkin into a scary or comical face and place it on the home's doorstep on Halloween night for fun.

In Britain and Ireland, a turnip was and sometimes still is used, but emigrants to America quickly adopted the pumpkin because it is much larger and easier to carve. The jack-o'-lantern, a carved vegetable lit by a candle inside, is one of Halloween's most prominent symbols. There are also elements of the autumn season, such as pumpkins and scarecrows, reflected in symbols of Halloween. Black and orange are the traditional colors of Halloween.

Homes are often decorated with these symbols around Halloween. Commonly-associated Halloween characters include ghosts, witches, bats, black cats, goblins, zombies and demons, as well as certain fictional figures like Dracula and Frankenstein's monster. Halloween's theme is spooky or scary things particularly involving death, black magic, or mythical monsters. Anoka, Minnesota, USA, the self-proclaimed "Halloween Capital of the World," celebrates with a large civic parade.

Many European cultural traditions hold that Halloween is one of the "liminal" times of the year when the spirit world can make contact with the natural world and when magic is most potent (see, for example, Catalan mythology about witches). Halloween is sometimes associated with the occult. These traditions were then passed on to the United States. When the Romans invaded the Britain, they embellished the tradition with their own, which is the celebration of the harvest and honoring the dead.

To scare off the evil spirits, the Celts wore masks. The spirits supposedly rose from the dead and, in order to attract them, food was left on the doors. In Great Britain in particular, the pagan Celts celebrated the Day of the Dead on Halloween. Halloween is also called Pooky Night in some parts of Ireland, presumably named after the pookah, a mischievous spirit.

Halloween is also known as the Day of the Dead, and it is a day of celebration for Wiccans and other modern pagan traditions, though the holiday has lost its religious connotations among the populace at large. Halloween was formerly also sometimes called All Saints' Eve. The holiday was a day of religious festivities in various northern European pagan traditions, until it was appropriated by Christian missionaries (along with Christmas and Easter, two other traditional northern European pagan holidays) and given a Christian reinterpretation. In Ireland, the name was Hallow Eve and this name is still used by some older people. The form "Halloween" derives from Hallowe'en, an old contraction, still retained in Scotland, of "All Hallow's Eve," so called as it is the day before the Catholic All Saints holy day, which used to be called "All Hallows," derived from All Hallowed Souls.

Irish, Scots and other immigrants brought older versions of the tradition to North America in the 19th century. It is celebrated in much of the Western world, though most commonly in the United States, Ireland, Scotland and Canada. Halloween is a holiday celebrated on the night of October 31, usually by children dressing in costumes and going door-to-door collecting candy. roasted pumpkin seeds.

hot apple cider. candy corn.