There are hundreds of web pages devoted to the origins of Halloween. Unfortunately, many are written by paranoid people who seem to get their information from the voices in their heads. Can you separate out the facts from the fiction? How much do you know about the true history of Halloween? Click on true or false for each answer below. If you get an answer wrong, you will be rewarded with a non-helpful sarcastic comment. But don't change your wrong answer. The form will total up your score at the end. Clear the form and retake the quiz to see how much you've learnt and to read the comments associated with the right answers.

1.) Halloween is Satan's birthday.
True False

2.) The Druids used to carve pumpkins into jack-o-lanterns to scare away evil spirits.
True False

3.) The Druids used to go trick-or-treating and would curse all the peasants who didn't give them any treats.
True False.

4.) In Celtic countries, Halloween was the time when the Lord of the Dead, the great god Samhain, began his reign.
True False

5.) Churches in Medieval England used to ring their bells after dark on October 31st to comfort the souls in purgatory.
True False

6.) Halloween is an ancient Wiccan festival.
True False

7.) The Catholic church set the date of All Saints Day to correspond with the ancient Irish festival of Samhain.
True False

8.) In Elizabethan times, witches used to meet around a fire at midnight on Halloween to celebrate a mass for the dead.
True False

Confused? Read a book! All information given in the answers above can be found in The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britian, a thoroughly researched and comprehensive study by Ronald Hutton, Professor of History at the University of Bristol.