kindergarten halloween

                                         https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g47eLT8-kVk

Coming to a neighborhood near you

ezra buzzington

AKA: The horseless headsman....wait for the movie!

More Halloween Trivia

According to Irish legend, Jack O’Lanterns are named after a stingy man named Jack. Because he tricked the devil several times, he was forbidden entrance into both heaven and hell. He was condemned to wander the Earth, waving his lantern to lead people away from their paths.

The mysterious Houdini died on Halloween night in 1926.

In the pre-Halloween Samhein days, large bonfires were lite to encourage the sun to return in the spring. Druids would throw cows bones in the fire for good luck. These so called 'bone fires' are the root for the word 'bonfire.'

Halloween is the second largest commercial holiday of the year.

Evidence suggests the traditions are as old as 4000 BC.

The word “witch” comes from the Old English wicce, meaning “wise woman.” In fact, wiccan were highly respected people at one time

France, Australia and other countries condemn Halloween as an example of unwanted American influence.

The Roman holiday of Pomona, the harvest goddess, influenced modern Halloween games like bobbing for apples.

Halloween comments

From ghoulies and ghosties
And long-leggedy beasties
And things that go bump in the night,
Good Lord, deliver us!
~Scottish Saying


There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. ~George Carlin

halloween dinners

jpr: Where do these people find the time!

Two most famous witches

From the Wizard of Oz:...least we forget

Glenda the good witch,
The wicked witch of the West

Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself - and maybe that Goblin up there!

Based on a true story.

halloween quotes

scares me!

'Tis now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world.
~William Shakespeare


From ghoulies and ghosties
And long-leggedy beasties
And things that go bump in the night,
Good Lord, deliver us!
~Scottish Saying

InFamous Halloween Quotes

Step one - get candy.  Step two - guard stash.

Halloween Candy Stats

Approximately $1.9 billion or 598 million pounds of candy is purchased during the Halloween season.
Halloween is the biggest season for chocolate candy, with nearly 90 million pounds of chocolate candy purchased during the week of Halloween. This is compared with only about 65 million pounds of chocolate candy sold during the week leading up to Easter and 48 million pounds of chocolate candy sold during Valentine's week.

horseless headsman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6r_WX2M-s8

jpr"The best ad ever....makes me feel as a child again.

Halloween

Halloween's origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced 'sau-en). The Celts celebrated their new year on November 1st. This day marked the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of winter. Celts believed that on the night before the new year, the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead opened. On the night of October 31st, they celebrated Samhain, when it was believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth. In addition to causing trouble and damaging crops, Celts thought that the presence of the otherworldly spirits made it easier for the Druids, or Celtic priests, to make predictions about the future.

In the eighth century, Pope Gregory III designated November 1 as a time to honor all saints and martyrs. All Saints’ Day, incorporated some of the traditions of Samhain. The evening before was known as All Hallows’ Eve and later Halloween.

Halloween idea

This is done with power tools.

pumpkin hipster want to be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4IC7qaNr7I

jpr: "E" for effort. "B" for bold, "D" for don't wan to be him!

a Halloween sky

All Souls
Edith Wharton (1903) 

A thin moon faints in the sky o’erhead,
And dumb in the churchyard lie the dead.
Walk we not, Sweet, by garden ways,
Where the late rose hangs and the phlox delays,
But forth of the gate and down the road,
Past the church and the yews, to their dim abode.
For it’s turn of the year and All Souls’ night,
When the dead can hear and the dead have sight.


jpr: Boo!

pumkin carving

Young girl wanted to do something fun (not the common scary face) and ended up deciding on this emoticon: :-P

jpr: This a case where less is less but gooder!

Great Halloween Gag

A Norwegian 'gag shop' sold fake body parts wrapped like meat (to include nutritional data) under the brand name CHOP SHOP during the Halloween season.  Local 'child care' officials were not thrilled and the police were called to inspect the material.  "All in good fun" according to the manufacture.  What a great gag.

Halloween in Greenwich Village

New York' City’s Greenwich Village Halloween Parade is an annual holiday parade and street pageant run every Halloween (October 31) for 40 years. It is the largest, and perhaps weirdest, Halloween celebration  in the US and probably the world.  More than a mile long,  two million spectators enjoy at least fifty thousand costumed participants, dancers, artists, circus performers, floats with live bands, and a television audience of one hundred million worldwide.

Very ‘avant garde’  (some might say alternative) it began as a parade primarily for NYC gay community and the event remains open to anyone in a costume who wishes to march. It is an event everyone should see at least once.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G31Wm81fxfw

decorating with pumpkins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_d62DGmGAM


Less is more!

Witches, Wicca, Halloween, and The Samhein Tradition

Samhain or Samuin is the name of the festival marking the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter in Gaelic Ireland.  It is celebrated from sunset on 31 October to sunset on 1 November and has become linked with Halloween and All Saints Day.  Referenced in Old Irish Literature from the 10th Century,  it is found in the earlier Irish verbal tradition, and is probably pre-christian in origin.  The name derives from the same word as summer.  Some evidence suggests it served as the Celtic new year.  

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Ancient tradition held that the separation between the living world and the world of the dead was thinnest at Samhain, allowing the spirits to enter the world of the living.  Celebrations included the setting of places at table for the departed.  Wandering fairies crossed over as well and made mischief.   Twentieth century misinterpretation of history caused it to be linked with evil, black magic, witchcraft and the like. But that connection has no historical bases.  The relationship between Wicca and Samhain and/or neo-pagans originated with the revision of these movements in the 20th century.  Both groups incorporated Samhain (as a holy day in their contemporary belief system.