“Trick or treat?� is the age old request of children at Halloween. Dressed up as witches they knock hopefully on hall doors hoping that you will put some goodies in their bags for them. Then they run home to play the traditional Halloween games such as Snap apple or to roast chestnuts on the fire.
Halloween then is a night for broomsticks and cats and tales of the supernatural. Most of us would firmly deny that there were such things as ghosts. If we were asked “Is there a ghost in the house?� we would laugh and say “Of course not�    Yet there is still a great interest in the whole topic of ghosts.  There are still people who believe in them. There are still experts who study the whole subject. Poltergeists, spirits or headless horsemen whatever their shape or make there are still those who think that they exist.
No self respecting castle would be without its haunted room or its story about a maiden who is seen walking and wailing for a lost lover. Priests are still called to exorcise demons. People claim to hear clanking noises in the middle of the night. Few of us would be brave enough to stay alone all night in a lonely tower that is reputed to be haunted. Every nation has its own stories of ghosts and goblins and things that go bump in the night.
Perhaps it is as well to have an open mind because as Shakespeare says
“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy�.

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