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A girl and her brother selects pumpkins to buy at a local farm ...

Fri Oct 30, 4:13 PM ET

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A girl and her brother selects pumpkins to buy at a local farm in Calverton, Maryland, on October 24. Halloween may be a celebration of all things creepy and macabre, but a growing number of US communities are shunning traditional ghoulish festivities, seen by some as tainted by association with paganism and the occult.

(AFP/File/Jewel Samad)