Halloween around the world
Halloween is not just an American holiday. From a zombie run in the Philippines to a haunted house in Paris, countries around the world celebrate the ghoulish holiday their own way.
- Participants, wearing Spiderman costumes, ride on a train after Halloween night in Tokyo’s Shibuya district November 1, 2014. Thousands of costumed revelers descended on Shibuya crossing in downtown Tokyo on Friday to celebrate Halloween in what has in recent years become a incredibly popular Japanese past time. (Yuya Shino/Reuters)
- Customers shop for halloween costumes at Angels Fancy Dress on October 31, 2014 in London, England. Angels, the worlds largest fancy dress retailer, was founded in 1840 and has supplied costumes to numerous film and television productions as well as to the general public. The week leading up to Halloween is traditionally one of the stores busiest times of the year. ( Rob Stothard/Getty Images)
- Katy Kennedy, an employee of Angels Fancy Dress, applies fake blood to her halloween costume on October 31, 2014 in London, England. Angels, the worlds largest fancy dress retailer, was founded in 1840 and has supplied costumes to numerous film and television productions as well as to the general public. The week leading up to Halloween is traditionally one of the stores busiest times of the year. ( Rob Stothard/Getty Images)
- An employee wearing a costume stands in a fancy dress store on Halloween on October 31, 2014 in Oullins, central-eastern France. (Jeff Pachoud/AFP/Getty Images)
- A display of carved Halloween pumpkins is seen at Granary Square in London on October 31, 2014. Halloween is an annual celebration that uses humor and ridicule to confront death. Typical festive Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, attending costume parties and carving pumpkins into jack-o’-lanterns. (Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images)
- A polar bear eats a pumpkin during Halloween celebration in the Tiergarten Schoenbrunn zoo in Vienna October 31, 2014. Once a year the animals in the zoo are fed with pumpkins to celebrate Halloween. (Leonhard Foeger/Reuters)
- Halloween partygoers wearing masks take a selfie at a street on Halloween in Beijing October 31, 2014. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)
- A Lucky Air crew member dressed as Spiderman (3rd R) during an onboard Halloween celebration sits next to passengers during a flight from Kunming to Shenzhen, in Kunming, October 31, 2014. Attendants of the domestic Lucky Air flight on Friday night dressed themselves in costumes of superheroes and movie figures to serve their customers as well as celebrate Halloween, according to local media. (Wong Campion/Reuters)
- Lucky Air crew members dressed as Superman (C) and Captain America (centre, L) for an onboard Halloween celebration, board a flight from Kunming to Shenzhen, in Kunming, October 31, 2014. Attendants of the domestic Lucky Air flight on Friday night dressed themselves in costumes of superheroes and movie figures to serve their customers as well as celebrate Halloween, according to local media. (Wong Campion/Reuters)
- Participants, wearing make-up and costumes, pose during Halloween night in Tokyo’s Shibuya district October 31, 2014. Thousands of costumed revelers descended on Shibuya crossing in downtown Tokyo on Friday to celebrate Halloween in what has in recent years become a incredibly popular Japanese past time. (Yuya Shino/Reuters)
- Participants, wearing make-up and costumes, eat candy during Halloween night in Tokyo’s Shibuya district October 31, 2014. Thousands of costumed revelers descended on Shibuya crossing in downtown Tokyo on Friday to celebrate Halloween in what has in recent years become a incredibly popular Japanese past time. (Yuya Shino/Reuters)
- A hippopotamus catches a pumpkin during Halloween celebrations in the Tiergarten Schoenbrunn zoo in Vienna October 31, 2014. Once a year the animals in the zoo are fed with pumpkins to celebrate Halloween. (Leonhard Foeger/Reuters)
- A man with costume make up looks on at a Halloween party in Yangon on October 31, 2014. Halloween, a contraction of All Hallows’ Eve, is celebrated on the last day of October before All Saints Day. The tradition of revellers dressing up as ghosts during Halloween goes back to a folk belief that beings from the afterlife will mingle with those on earth on that day, thus humans disguised as ghosts will be left alone by the supernatural. (Ye Aung/AFP/Getty Images)
- People wear costumes as they pose for pictures while taking part in a Halloween parade in Tokyo on October 31, 2014. Tens of thousands of people gathered at Tokyo’s Shibuya fashion district to celebrate Halloween. (Yoshikazu Tsunoyo/AFP/Getty Images)
- People wear costumes as they pose for pictures while taking part in a Halloween parade in Tokyo on October 31, 2014. Tens of thousands of people gathered at Tokyo’s Shibuya fashion district to celebrate Halloween. (Yoshikazu Tsunoyo/AFP/Getty Images)
- A man who sells halloween toys looks for customuers inside the Navotas Public Cemetery in Manila on October 31, 2014, days ahead of the traditional All Souls’ day. Millions across the Philippines will visit cemeteries to pay their respects to their dead, in an annual tradition that combines catholic religious rites with the country’s penchant for festivity. (Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images)
- A Chinese boy dressed as a pirate for Halloween wears a facemask due to pollution on a hazy day on October 31, 2014 in Beijing, China. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
- A giant otter holds a pumpkin during Halloween celebrations at Madrid Zoo October 31, 2014. (Andrea Comas/Reuters)
- Tortoises eat their food from inside a pumpkin during Halloween celebrations at Madrid Zoo October 31, 2014. (Andrea Comas/Reuters)
- A diver dressed as a skeleton feeds fish out of jack-o’-lanterns to rays and sharks in a Halloween-themed aquarium at the SEA LIFE & AquaDom attraction on October 30, 2014 in Berlin, Germany. The event was presented to call attention to the one hundred million or more sharks killed per year in the world’s oceans, according to organizers. (Adam Berry/Getty Images)
- A Siberian tiger plays with a pumpkin at the Dierenpark Amersfoort zoo in Amersfoort, The Netherlands, on October 30 2014, one day before Halloween on October 31. (Remko De Waal/AFP/Getty Images)
- Visitors pose for photos in an installation consists of 500 pumpkin lights to mark the Halloween in Shenyang, northeast China’s Liaoning province. (Photostra/AFP/Getty Images)
- Pumpkins carved as grimacing faces are pictured on October 28, 2014 in Hanover, central Germany, days before Halloween. (Ole Spata/AFP/Getty Images)
- A woman dressed as a zombie entertains people waiting on October 30, 2014 to see the show “la Peste” at the Manoir de Paris haunted house in Paris. (Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP/Getty Images)
- A customer looks at pumpkins carved as grimacing faces with candles inside in a street of Tirana on October 30, 2014, one day before Halloween. (Gent Shkullaku/AFP/Getty Images)
- Actors dressed up as horror movie characters scare visitors the day before halloween at the “Warner Movie Park” in Bottrop, western Germany on October 30, 2014. (Patrik Stollarz/AFP/Getty Images)
- A student with his face painted attends a halloween party at a school in Bangkok October 31, 2014. (Athit Perawongmetha/AFP/Getty Images)
- A student with his face painted eats lunch before a halloween party at a school in Bangkok October 31, 2014. (Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters)
- Decorations for Halloween are displayed in a shop in Amsterdam on October 30, 2014. More and more Dutch people are taking part in Halloween celebrations. (Koen Van Weel/ANP/AFP/Getty Images)
- A pirate mask is displayed in a shop in Amsterdam on October 30, 2014 on the eve of Halloween. More and more Dutch people are taking part in Halloween celebrations. (Koen Van Weel/ANP/AFP/Getty Images)
- A school boy wearing a mask and a costume arrives on a bicycle before the start of a Halloween Parade along a street in Manila October 30, 2014. (Romeo Ranoco/Reuters)
- A man wearing a zombie costume chases participants during a Zombie Run held as part of Halloween celebrations in Marikina city, east of Manila October 30, 2014. (Romeo Ranoco/Reuters)
- A teacher with his face painted attends a halloween party at a school in Bangkok October 31, 2014. (Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters)
- Makeup teacher Carla McKeever poses during preparations for a Zombie Sydney event at the Australasian College Broadway on October 31, 2014 in Sydney, Australia. To celebrate Halloween, “zombies” engage with commuters on their way to work and throughout the day. (Mark Kolbe/Getty Images)
- A model poses during preparations for a Zombie Sydney event at the Australasian College Broadway on October 31, 2014 in Sydney, Australia. To celebrate Halloween, “zombies” engage with commuters on their way to work and throughout the day. (Mark Kolbe/Getty Images)
- A student wears a mask as he gathers with others during a halloween party at a school in Bangkok October 31, 2014. (Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters)
- Natalie Cartwright makes finishing touches to the Master of Tricks’ Halloween wheel of misfortune at the London Dungeon, where the season of scare will run until Wednesday, November 5 at The London Dungeon. (Danny E. Martindale/Getty Images)
- Natalie Cartwright carves one of the 1600 pumpkins that have been installed into the London Dungeon this Halloween, where the season of scare will run until Wednesday, November 5 at The London Dungeon. (Danny E. Martindale/Getty Images)