Google’s Halloween treat : Uncover all today’s spooky ‘Easter eggs’
You might have already noticed today’s Google Doodle is an interactive animated witch. There are more tricks to uncover though, but you just have to know the right combination of ingredients to make the right concoction.
But that’s not all Google has in store for users today as Google Graph Search provides additional, not always useful, but funny information for your ghoulish search.
Ghost
Inspector Specter
In traditional belief and fiction, a ghost is the soul or spirit of a dead person or animal that can appear, in visible form or other manifestation, to the living. Wikipedia
Origin: Animism or ancestor worship in pre-literate cultures
Grouping: Legendary Creature
Sub grouping: Undead
Food source: Air, your fear, being remembered
How to avoid: Burn sage; don’t build a pool on burial grounds; stay away from haunted places
How to defeat: Call Peter Venkman and Ray Stantz
Zombie
The stalking undead
A zombie is an animated corpse raised by magical means, such as witchcraft. The term is often figuratively applied to describe a hypnotized person bereft of consciousness and self-awareness, yet ambulant and able to respond to surrounding stimuli. Wikipedia
Origin: Tenets of Vodoo in West Africa and Haiti
Grouping: Legendary Creature
Sub grouping: Undead
Food source: Human flesh, preferably brains
How to avoid: Don’t join a dance troupe led by a man in a red leather suit; stay out of graveyards
How to defeat: Go for the head
Vampire
A bloody good Count
Vampires are mythological or folkloric beings who subsist by feeding on the life essence (generally in the form of blood) of living creatures, regardless of whether they are undead or a living person/being. Wikipedia
Origin: European folklore
Grouping: Legendary creature
Sub grouping: Undead
Food source: Your blood
How to avoid: Don’t invite them in, keep garlic on stock, stay away from Transylvania
How to defeat: Expose them to sunlight or pierce their heart with a wooden stake
Witch
The good, the bad and the ugly
Witchcraft is the use of magical faculties, most commonly for religious, divinatory or medicinal purposes. Wikipedia
Origin: Early human cultures
Grouping: Homo Sapiens
Sub grouping: Supernatural human
Food source: Strange Brew, candy
How to avoid: Don’t eat red apples from strangers; hide if you see a flock of flying monkeys
How to defeat: Throw a pail of water
Werewolf
A very real creature
A werewolf, also known as a lycanthrope, is a mythological or folkloric human with the ability to shapeshift into a wolf or an [sic] therianthropic hybrid wolf-like creature, either purposely or after being placed under a curse or affliction Wikipedia
Origin: European folklore
Grouping: Legendary Creature
Sub grouping: Lycanthrope
Food source: Anything it can chase, catch, and chomp
How to avoid: Stay in your house during the full moon
How to defeat: Use weapons made of silver, such as silver bullet, blade, or cane
Mummy
A mummy is a deceased human or animal whose skin and organs have been preserved by either intentional or incidental exposure to chemicals, extreme cold, very low humidity, or lack of air when bodies are submerged in bogs, so that the recovered body will not decay further if kept in cool and dry cond… More Wikipedia
Origin: South America, Africa, Asia
Grouping: Legendary creature
Sub grouping: Undead
Food source: The power of love (and curses)
How to avoid: Don’t raid tombs; never read ancient scrolls
How to defeat: Unravel the mummy entirely; destroy the Scroll of Thoth
These are just some of the Easter Eggs Google has for Halloween, can you find more of them? Happy Halloween!
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