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Here are three spooky Halloween traditions that were lost in the mists of time. Let’s take a trip back through time and observe the way our ancients (and not-so-ancients) used to celebrate our sacred festival of ghouls. Enjoy!  Cracking the Gigglemug This was a popular Halloween pastime for the British working classes right into the early 1920s. From a village, community or family group, the malcontents and deplorables banded together and selected a “gigglemug”, or fair youth of light and happy spirit. The unwilling gigglemug would be held down and a live chicken tied to their head, before being liberally smeared,...

Here's a tasty little fact to sink your teeth into:

Did you know that it takes just the single wrapper of one lowly ‘ol Chapper to learn a new thing or two?

Case in point this fascinating factoid that we eagerly devoured over here at Sad Shirts HQ when the time finally arrived for our much-anticipated daily ritual of divvying up and sharing our allotted sugary 50c square for the day.

O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! We've made a little veedjo! It's a thrilling behind-the-scenes look at the making of our 'Mine!' design.

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"Then suddenly I saw it. With only a slight churning to mark its rise to the surface, the thing slid into view above the dark waters. Vast, Polyphemus-like, and loathsome, it darted like a stupendous monster of nightmares to the monolith, about which it flung its gigantic scaly arms, the while it bowed its hideous head and gave vent to certain measured sounds. I think I went mad then.

"Of my frantic ascent of the slope and cliff, and of my delirious journey back to the stranded boat, I remember little. I believe I sang a great deal, and laughed oddly when I was unable to sing. I have indistinct recollections of a great storm some time after I reached the boat; at any rate, I know that I heard peals of thunder and other tones which Nature utters only in her wildest moods."

— Dagon, H. P. Lovecraft

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