Google often celebrate holidays and feast days with their unique Google Doodle, and Halloween is no different. The black, purple and orange Google Doodle for Halloween has been created in collaboration with WWF and is an interactive ‘trick or treat’ game.
The ghoulish animation, allows visitors to click on doors from which wild – and traditionally spooky – animals will pop up including; a black jaguar, tarantula, snowy owl, octopus, vampire bat and grey wolf.
The collection of doors features a tiny one just the right size for a spider, an underwater door fit for the octopus and more.
In the background is haunting carousel music, to really put you in the Halloween mood.
Then you can then either pick “trick” or “treat” and each choice has a resulting consequence.
Origins of Halloween
Halloween or All Hallows Eve falls each year on October 31 – and has origins which date back to pagan times.
While today the traditions are to go trick-or-treating, dress up in spooky costumes or watch a scary film or two – originally Halloween commemorates spirits.
On Halloween, it is believed the veil between the living and the dead is at its thinnest, and trick or treating began as a way to appease these spirits.
Halloween is linked to the Celtic festival of Samhain, which marks the end of the harvest and beginning of winter.