Halloween belongs to the Pooka, the shape shifting trickster of Irish folklore
As the dark half of the year closes in, Irish tradition hands the countryside over to a jet-black phantom with burning eyes that can appear as a horse, a goat, a hare, or a handsome stranger.
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