8 Halloween-Themed Chick Tracts to “Chick Out” This Halloweekend
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Jack Chick, who died this past Sunday, devoted his life to the writing, illustration and publication of religious cartoons known as Chick Tracts. He hated Catholicism, evolution, homosexuality and bibles that weren’t the King James version. His publication house, Chick Publications, has supposedly published as many as 800 million copies of his tracts. It has also been designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center
So, okay, Chick Tracts may not exactly be comedy, but they are unique comic artifacts, lenses into an exceptionally strange and paranoid mind. And many of them are about Halloween. Here are eight of the weirdest:
8. The Little Princess
At the beginning of this tract, a dying girl makes her final wish: to go trick-or-treating on Halloween. Then, at the end, she dies. But it’s okay, because she accepted Christ into her heart and went to heaven! Tremendous.
7. The Nervous Witch
This tract features a witch named Samantha, suggesting that Chick perhaps watched, or was at least peripherally aware of, the seminal sitcom Bewitched. It also contains the line “Witches rule! God is dead and the churches are powerless. Old ‘Bible boy’ won’t stand a chance against our black arts.” Nice.
6. Satan Comes To Salem
Ostensibly about the Salem witch trials (fun!), this tract ends up being a screed against the Roman Catholic Church (eh!), one of Chick’s favorite targets.
