Candy, costumes, ghosts, ghouls, and pumpkins are the most common items associated with the day, Oct. 31, known as Halloween, this year on Thursday.
Besides the traditional trick-or-treating, where people — mostly children — dressed in costumes go door-to-door to homes and receive candy and other treats.
Other Halloween activities include attending costume parties, apple-bobbing, carving pumpkins, lighting bonfires, playing pranks, visiting attractions considered haunted, telling scary stories and watching horror flicks of Halloween-themed movies.