It was once believed that you could stop evil spirits from entering your house by walking backwards around the outside of it. For this to work though you had to do it three times, travel anti-clockwise, and be sure that you were finished before sunset.
IMPORTANT: Please note that although this process was believed to be an effective protection against the un-dead, and all of the legions of hell, today’s Trick or Treaters, might prove to be more persistent adversaries.
For those people who require a means of keeping away Trick or Treaters (shame on you) it might prove beneficial to just keep walking around the house, in the prescribed fashion, all night, whilst also gibbering and drooling. That way anyone that does come near your home, on Halloween night, will either think that you are complete lunatic, and possibly dangerous, or a politician (even more dangerous). One way or another they will stay away.
Halloween Humour
The ghost of Notre Dame hunchback, Quasimodo, has been seen materializing near the cathedral recently. When asked how he could be sure that it was indeed Quasimodo that he had seen, one witness stated that, if it wasn’t, it was a dead ringer.