Halloween
Satanism and occult practices aren’t actually scary
October 30, 2021Every October I’m reminded when most people hear words like “Satanism,” “witchcraft,” and “the occult,” they imagine something dangerous, unethical, or don’t think people actually practice these things outside of movies. Popular horror movies like The Blair Witch Project and The Craft depict witches wrapped up in plots to kill. The Halloween franchise shows murderer Michael Myers as cursed by a druid cult, and suggests his violence comes from Pagan practices. However, the varying practices are not inherently dangerous or harmful. Just like any belief, Satanism has the potential to be a positive and deeply important part of someone’s life.…
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What Grinds Our Gears: People judging others for dressing up for Halloween
October 18, 2021Dressing up for Halloween should not have an age limit, it is basically like ComicCon but at home with your friends. There shouldn’t be a hard limit on what is the appropriate age to stop dressing up in costumes. This…
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The Peak staff reveal their best worst childhood costumes
October 30, 2020By: Juztin Bello, Emma Jean, Dhivya Manohar, and Paige Riding By Juztin [caption id="attachment_116213" align="alignnone" width="250"] PHOTO: Juztin Bello / The Peak[/caption] I wasn’t big on creative costumes when I was a kid — evident by the fact I have no…
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An SFU Halloween choose your own adventure
October 28, 2020INTRO: It’s Halloween! And you, being the procrastinating piece of shit you are, left a major project due tonight until this morning. With someone in your house dressed as a bootleg Coraline wearing a blue mop head blaring the same…
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Top Ten 2020 Halloween Costumes
October 27, 2020The debate fly As the breakout star of the VP Debate, this meme-turned-costume is kind of filthy, relevant to current events, and at the exPence of a shitty politician — perfectly encapsulating 2020. While you could just dress up like…
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Your Halloween Horrorscopes
October 27, 2020Aries: You just had to ask, “how could 2020 get any worse?” Now, we’re looking at a year-end zombie apocalypse thanks to your cynicism. Why pay for therapy to be told you’re “a threat to society” when you could just…
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What happens if the “Local Women in Your Area!” actually find you?
October 26, 2020Would you spend a devastating seven more bucks a month on a new streaming service for a show unavailable on Netflix, or do you risk some harmless little malware and maybe a housecall from the FBI on a pirating site?…
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Guidelines on having a safe Halloween encourages trick-or-treating in small groups
October 26, 2020The BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) has released safety guidelines for a low-risk and fun Halloween this year. To prevent the risk of further COVID-19 outbreaks in the community, they recommend that no indoor Halloween parties — big or…
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Don’t be spooked by trick-or-treating
October 25, 2020If one of the goals of trick-or-treating is to bring some scares, they may not be too successful with kids this year — but they’re knocking it out of the damn park with adults. It’s difficult to imagine how a…
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It’s time to cancel offensive costumes
October 24, 2020Topics surrounding culturally appropriative Halloween costumes, and the general audacity of what some people choose to dress up as, have floated around in past years. With that in mind, a lot has happened in the world since last Halloween —…
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