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re: The HALLOWEEN Thread >CREEPY Stuff, Recipes & Wallpapers/Fonts/Icons
HALLOWEEN 2016  .............
With great help from Irish Culture and Customs, we put together a list of 30 Halloween words in Irish, along with their pronunciations.
So now you can finally call your friend a Hobgoblin in Irish, you can tell your Irish gran to watch out for that ghostly, sinister, supernatural werewolf, or teach your trick or treaters the Gaelic spin on their favorite door-to-door greeting:
Trick or Treat: Cleas nó cóir (class noh koh-ir)
Witch/Witch's Broomstick: Cailleach/scuab chaillí (kyle-yeukh/scoob khyle-ee)
Bat: Sciathán (shkee-hawn)
Sinister: Drochtuarach (dhrukth-oor-ukh)
Scare/Scared: Scanradh/scanraithe (skahn-rah/skahn-rah-heh)
Haunt/Haunted: Gnáthóg/gnáthaithe (gnaw-hohg/gnaw-ah-heh)
Ghost: Púca or taibhse (pookah or thyve-sheh)
Hobgoblin: Bobodha (bub-uh-dhah)
Costume: Culaith (kul-ah)
Turnip: Tornapa (thurn-ah-pah)
Pumpkin: Puimcín (pim-keen)
Ghostly/spooky: Taibhsiúil (thyev-shool)
Banshee: Bean sí (bahn-shee)
Scream/shriek: scréach (shkraykh)
Moon: Gealach (gi-ahl-ukh)
Shadow: scáth or scáil (skaw or skaw-il)
Tomb: Tuama (thoo-mah)
Graveyard: Reilg (rell-ig)
Coffin: Cónra (kohn-rah)
Skeleton: Creatlach (krath-lukh)
Spirit: Anam (ah-nahm)
Monster: Ollphéist (ull-fayshth)
Nightmare: Tromluí (thrum-lee)
Vampire: Deamhan fola (djow-agn fulah)
Blood: Fuil (fwill)
Werewolf: Coinríocht (kon-ree-ukth)
Devil/Demon: Deabhal djowl (death bás baws)
Terror/Terrifying: Uafás/uafásach (oo-faws/oo-faws-ukh)
Spider/spiderweb: Damhán/damhán alla (dhow-awn ah-lah)
Supernatural: Osnádúrtha (uss-naw-dhoor-hah)
NOW... PREPARE to SCREAM! ... 
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