Chapter 433: Halloween Monsters
As he looked around again, Clement's eyes were fixed on a vampire costume.
The costume of the female vampire is very distinctive, and it feels similar to that of a goth loli, although it may not be sexy, but it is very cute.
Formerly vampire, meaning zombie, blood-sucking demon. As a demonic figure with a close relationship with humans (vampires are usually hidden in the middle of the crowd), it has been tinged in folklore for thousands of years with a bizarre and terrifying psychedelic color.
Later, we learned from the Eastern European myths of the 18th and 19th centuries that they were the kind of people with fangs and turbans. They are also believed to have given birth to a deformed child or a person who died unexpectedly, and after burial, his soul came out of the shell to terrorize the living. Vampires are considered immortal but need to suck human blood to sustain immortality.
But now there are too many vampires, handsome men in tuxedos or female vampires in goth loli costumes, handsome and cute.
"How's this?"
"Yes, it suits you perfectly, and it must not be very beautiful when you wear it." Although he was looking at clothes, what came to Gaucy's mind was Perona in "One Piece".
I don't know what it's like to wear Clement, but Gaucy feels like he's looking forward to it.
"Okay, if you think it looks good, buy it." It feels like Clement isn't choosing Halloween clothes, but more like preparing to play with uniform temptation. Gao Xi thought it was good, so she bought it, but she didn't think about it at all.
After putting the gothic loli costume in the shopping cart, the two of them snuggled and continued to walk forward, and the more they went inside, the more Gao Xi felt that he was not coming to a store that sold Halloween costumes, but more like a cosplay distribution center.
Good guys, let's not talk about those superheroes in the United States, what Iron Man, Captain America, Spider-Man, Hulk and so on. The key is that even the characters in Japanese anime are very complete, such as "One Piece", "Naruto", "Bleach War", "Holy Grail War", "One Punch Man", etc., there are all kinds of characters in it.
What Gao Xi didn't expect the most was that he thought that the Monkey King he wanted might not be able to buy it, but in fact, he was worried in vain, not to mention the Monkey King, there were actually some traditional Chinese characters such as gourd babies and bull demon kings.
By the way, there is also the appearance of a Chinese dragon, dragging a long tail, which looks very stylish. However, it is estimated that one person can't dress up, so it takes several people to dress up together.
Gao Xi thought it was fun, so he bought this dragon, which was more than ten meters long, and there were neon lights in it, which could light up as long as it was electrified, and this thing must be particularly fun to put on the gate of the ranch, and it was also very distinctive.
Except, of course, for these more trendy outfits. There are also quite a few traditional Halloween costumes, such as leprechauns.
This is one of the top 10 scary monsters of Halloween.
In the past, people celebrated Halloween mainly because they were afraid, because the living were afraid of the dead souls coming to take their lives. So on this day, people put out the fires and candles so that the souls of the dead could not find the living, and they dressed themselves as demons and monsters to scare away the souls of the dead.
After that, they will rekindle the candle again. Start the new year with your life. These demons are very scary, they are very weird, mysterious and terrifying. But the creepiest monsters don't come out of nowhere, and they're not ghosts.
In a medieval town. Many of them monsters were once endowed with real fear. Folklore was once in vogue, and it was easy to be afraid of these monsters.
Youkai is famous in mythology, an ugly-looking elf-like animal that is more of a prank than a scary. Legend has it that the leprechauns hide in the forest, play pranks all day long, and sometimes exchange their imbeciles for human children. Unlike the other monsters mentioned here, the goblin figure did not generate real intimidation in medieval towns due to religious beliefs.
And the so-called devils.
Devil is a term for an evil soul that represents any evil ghost or puppet who has fallen from an angel into Satan, well, Satan is the evil enemy of God and humanity and is often considered the leader of fallen angels.
Like evil itself, the devil has ancient origins and appears in folklore and literature around the world. Linda Blair's portrayal of the devil in the film The Exorcist is probably the most popular and talented version of the devil in popular culture, flying in the air, spinning, and performing stunningly realistic spitting movements.
And the dripping mouth monster.
The dripping mouth, this indescribable cute building, has become a kind of carving at the end of the nozzle of the building's water pipe. The shape of this monster is said to frighten evil spirits, so it is often used to ward off evil spirits. The dripbill, this terrifying stone-carved monster can be found in cathedrals around the world.
They became one with the roof of the cathedral used for waterproofing in the early 13th century, forming Gothic stone carvings. In a more spiritual sense, the Dripping Mouth Monster is believed to be used to protect gatherings that are often vandalized by evil forces. They are two birds sharing a stone, so they are called dripping mouth monsters.
And then there's the so-called snake god.
During the golden age of inferior cinema, the snake god was either a person whose soul had escaped from his body or someone who had awakened from death through witchcraft. The cultural origins of the snake god can be traced back to voodoo in Haiti, where it is still believed that someone would become a mindless nerd, like the walking corpse seen in the movies, missing arms and legs, and living on human flesh.
Ethnobotanists investigating in Haiti have discovered a poison that, when poisoned, can indeed turn people into brainless walking corpses.
Recently, there is an American TV series called "Deus Deus to a Dawn", well, it seems to be the name, and there is a description of the snake god in it.
And then there's the werewolf, which many people may be very familiar with, and is as famous as vampires.
In ancient Greek legend, a normal and polite person turned into a strange-looking, darkened complexion, and some deformation of limbs or face during the full moon, and this was a werewolf.
This is a mixture of human reverence and hatred for wolves, fused with bloodthirsty and cannibalistic imaginations, coupled with the multiple influences of the resurrection of the dead, transformation and even mental illness, to create werewolves.
Like witches, werewolves are also used by people to condemn unexplained community murders. Although old werewolf stories are only found in Hollywood movies, there is also a form of hyperdrodychemia, which is figuratively known as "werewolf disease".
It is estimated that when it comes to Halloween, many people will think of Grimace Pumpkin Lanterns.
Pumpkin lanterns carved with grimaces are probably the most famous holiday symbol on Halloween night. On Halloween night, children dressed up as witches, elves and other peculiar costumes, carrying pumpkin lanterns in their hands, go from house to house imitating monsters to ask for candy and cakes, and shouting, "Trick-or-treating." ”
The custom came from the Celts and was later brought to the United States by Irish immigrants. A glowing jack-o-lantern with a ghostly face means that it can scare away evil elves wandering the streets on the night of October 31.
The simplest outfit, and the most terrifying, is a ghost.
Cutting off a sheet with two eye holes and wrapping it around your body makes it the easiest ghost to dress up on Halloween night. However, it takes a bit of work to become a real ghost. First you have to die, possibly tragically, and then your soul wanders over the earth, frightening your loved ones from time to time, and haunting your home from time to time.
From a scientific point of view, spiritualists believe that the spirit of the body does not disappear completely because of the death of people, but leaves the body and wanders in the air. There seems to be a consensus in society that different studies believe that half of the ghosts are believed. However, scientists have not yet found a reliable basis for the existence of souls.
There are also bats, and then there are the witches and vampires mentioned earlier.
In this store, I'm afraid that there are only outfits that you can't think of, and there are really no outfits that you can't buy, and the goods are too complete, which makes Gao Xi have to sigh at how big the brains of American businessmen are and how profitable they are.
However, Gao Xi was not very interested in these traditional costumes, that is, he passed after reading the introduction. On the other side are cute pumpkin baskets, made of plastic, real pumpkins, and wood.
Because the various shapes are made vividly, it is estimated that children will like it when they look at it, and Gao Xi also wants to praise Lao Mei's craftsmanship is really exquisite, but when he picked it up and looked at it, he couldn't help but shake his head.
Sure enough, I guessed correctly, it's not that Lao Mei is exquisite, but that our people are too powerful, and all such small things are printed with "Made in China".
Gao Xi sometimes thinks that the Americans are probably the happiest to celebrate the holidays in China, because every holiday, their orders will definitely increase in large quantities.
In addition to these pumpkin baskets, there are quite a few novelty so-called horror baskets.
Well, it's not scary at all, although some of them look like monsters' heads, but they're really not scary, and in Gao Xi's opinion, it's only fun and cute. He is actually quite afraid of ghosts, he is not afraid, and it is estimated that children are even more afraid.
"Why, you want to carry these little baskets and go door to door to ask for candy?" Clement couldn't help but laugh.
"Can't you?" Gao Xi really thought about it for a moment.
"It's not that no, there have been people who have done this before, anyway, Halloween is a fun thing now, and sometimes many people want children to come to their homes and ask for candy, thinking that it is a blessing. But forget it, I guess a couple of cowboys on your ranch will probably spend Halloween on your ranch, and you'll have to entertain their kids. Clement said.
"Then buy a few baskets, even if you don't want candy, it's quite atmospheric to hang there, after all, it's Halloween, and besides, this thing is not expensive."
"Whatever, I don't care how you spend your own money." Clement said with a shrug. (To be continued.) )