Discovering YOU Magazine October 2025 Issue | Page 42

DID YOU KNOW

The History

of Halloween

Article submitted Michael Joseph Lynch

card readers, to witch-shops that sold everything that had to do with pentagram jewelry, magic spell casting books, Ouija boards for conquering up spirits, Halloween items, witchcraft books, occult books, crystals, handmade amulets and charms, and crystal balls.

Back In 2011, me and my brother visited the city of Boston in Massachusetts, and while we were there, we took a side trip to the nearby city of Salem, which today is a haven for witches living there. Once arriving, we found out this was not a great choice of places to visit. No one in America I believe embraces Halloween like Salem does!

With the Salem Witch Museum, to voodoo, vampires, and ghost guided tours, to psychic medium reading shops everywhere haunted houses, to tarot

Every step we took we seen clairvoyance shops, palm reading shops, evil looking gift shops, séance shops, ghost tours at cemeteries, where you can talk to the dead. This city is known as the “Halloween Capital of the World,” and, “Witch City.” Every business in town embraces all this evil and dark energy items. They celebrate the entire month of October with festivals in all the Pagen and the witch communities living there,