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Halloween is a time of year that lets artistic homeowners flex their ornamental muscles.

It is an entertaining prelude to the more critical Thanksgiving and Christmas decorations that will be draped up.

Halloween decorations are a superb way to make certain that we are starting off the decor season in the correct fashion. Still, paradoxically – the celebration of Halloween, for the most part, was not a part of the very earliest American culture and settlers.

Protestants and Puritans were obviously reluctant and very afraid to participate in any holiday with a somewhat dodgy history filled with profoundly dark practices (such as witchcraft), ghosts, demons and the like. Halloween and anything emulating it was generally frowned upon, as well as eschewed by the very strict religious Puritan people.

The Irish potato famine that happened in 1845 led to a heavy influx of Irish immigrants that went to America. Along with the Irish people migrating west, too came numerous ancient Irish customs and traditions. One of the favored foundations coming from the abysses of Celtic history was that of Halloween … and, the holiday of Halloween had now been formally brought into America.

Although originally celebrated by only littler ethnic enclaves of mainly Irish people, ultimately the notion of celebrating Halloween became endorsed by the masses.

Let’s take a deeper look at some of the most over-the-top Halloween decorations that you are ever going to see.