My mind

1. The smell of pumpkin guts or rotting leaves?

2. Sweet or salty pumpkin seeds?

3. Store bought or pumpkin patch pumpkins?

4. Wool or knit sweaters?

5. Halloween party or exploring haunted places?

6. Candy corn or mellowcreme pumpkins?

7. Apple cider donuts or pumpkin donuts?

8. Apple pie or pumpkin pie?

9. Scary costume or something silly?

10. Still, silent nights or rainy, windblown ones?

11. Hocus Pocus or Halloweentown?

12. Witches or ghosts?

13. Raking leaves or climbing trees?

14. Ouija boards or ghost stories around a campfire?

15. Frankenweenie or The Corpse Bride?

16. October or November?

17. Black cats or owls?

18. Fireplace or candlelight?

19. Monster movies or their classic novels?

• Croatian Woman’s Ensemble.

Place of origin: Croatia, Eastern Europe

Christian tattooing in Bosnia and Herzegovina - called “Sicanje”- was a widespread custom among Roman Catholics during the Ottoman rule over Bosnia and Herzegovina (1463–1878)and up until the 20th century. Catholics tattooed their children in order to save them from devşirme, while women were tattooed in hopes of avoiding enslavement.

The custom is thought to predate the Slavic migration to the Balkans and even Christianity. In the 1st century BC, the Greek historian Strabomentioned tattooing among inhabitants of this area, along with another Illyrian custom. Vlach females from Greece, Macedonia and Herzegovine also utilized tattoes.Archaeologist Ćiro Truhelka researched these types of tattoos in the late 19th century, becoming one of the first to write about them and to illustrate them.