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Traps the Clown

       Halloween is a time for vengeance, that is what separates the harvest holiday from the one in the dead of winter. In the later, people are expected to have good will and forgiveness in the time where life is most fleeting. So before the season comes where all must put their bad feelings aside for the sake of surviving the harsh winter cold, people use the end of autumn to get revenge of those they can't forgive.      No spirit embodies this idea more than Traps. No one knows when he first appeared, he has always looked like what we might call a 'clown,' yet he is not a clown. If he is a clown, then he is the first.      On Halloween night, if someone has been wronged in some way, especially if they are a child, Traps will come and offer a gift. If someone takes that gift, he will come for whomever the doer of misdeeds is. He never tells what he is going to do, but it is always unspeakably horrible. That is why it is important to always be aware of who you are taking