Sámhain - AKA Halloween (87)
BOO!
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stringman: http://vocaroo.com/i/s1iE1B72PtRY
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That's the anniversary of the night zombies come out, isn't it?
Managed to kill 7 of them last year. Shame they were all children, but hey... zombies are zombies whatever their age.
Managed to kill 7 of them last year. Shame they were all children, but hey... zombies are zombies whatever their age.
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sirLarryIII: How many ghosts in their previous life were stalkers? if ya think about it there must be a lot of Irish auldman ghosts with beady eyes still floating about womens bedrooms.Now there's something to ponder when you go to bed tonight
Note to self: Do NOT sleep tonight!
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2girlsnocup: That's the anniversary of the night zombies come out, isn't it?
Managed to kill 7 of them last year. Shame they were all children, but hey... zombies are zombies whatever their age.
Managed to kill 7 of them last year. Shame they were all children, but hey... zombies are zombies whatever their age.
Tut tut..no zombies, just ghosts!
Get your scary creatures right
(And stop watching The Walking Dead!
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2girlsnocup: That's the anniversary of the night zombies come out, isn't it?
Managed to kill 7 of them last year. Shame they were all children, but hey... zombies are zombies whatever their age.
Managed to kill 7 of them last year. Shame they were all children, but hey... zombies are zombies whatever their age.
And they had bags of candy.
Can you believe it?
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mollybaby: Tut tut..no zombies, just ghosts!
Get your scary creatures right (And stop watching The Walking Dead! )
Get your scary creatures right (And stop watching The Walking Dead! )
I've never seen that. Only just started to watch Breaking Bad. That's how behind the times I am TV wise.
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postneoludite: And they had bags of candy.
Can you believe it?
Can you believe it?
OMG! You had them as well?
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sirLarryIII: But what if its me standing outside your house freezing in my dracula jockstrap holding my little candy cauldron
See,its not just kids that enjoy halloween
See,its not just kids that enjoy halloween
There are just no replies to some questions
But yet, the images will remain forever....
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2girlsnocup: I just lock the gates so they can't get in
Even better!
Then at least they can't puke on your property
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mollybaby: There are just no replies to some questionsBut yet, the images will remain forever....
Thank you for not making this a thread where he can post images.
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2girlsnocup: Thank you for not making this a thread where he can post images.
Your safe,technology is my enemy,dont know how to post pics
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sirLarryIII: Your safe,technology is my enemy,dont know how to post pics
If anyone tells him, I will personally send Liam Neeson to hunt them down.
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2girlsnocup: Thank you for not making this a thread where he can post images.
I wouldn't mind, but I wrote this thread as a serious one.
I should have known better!
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mollybaby: I wouldn't mind, but I wrote this thread as a serious one.I should have known better!
..I respect your views.......
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sirLarryIII: Not sure if penises can sing in Hindi Will have to check wikipedia for an accurate answer
Of course they can...they wrote the Kama Sutra
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truheart1941: ..I respect your views.......
Hi Tru
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mollybaby: Hi Tru
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But how many of you know the origin of this festival?
I could have written it myself, but I copy and pasted it out of laziness.
Enjoy
As millions of children and adults participate in the fun of Halloween on the night of October 31st, few will be aware of its ancient Celtic roots in the Samhain (Samain) festival. In Celtic Ireland about 2,000 years ago, Sámhain was the division of the year between the lighter half (summer) and the darker half (winter). At Sámhain the division between this world and the otherworld was at its thinnest, allowing spirits to pass through.
The family's ancestors were honoured and invited home whilst harmful spirits were warded off. People wore costumes and masks to disguise themselves as harmful spirits and thus avoid harm.
Bonfires and food played a large part in the festivities. Food was prepared for the living and the dead, food for the ancestors who were in no position it eat it, was ritually shared with the less well off.
Very often the spirits of ancestors sought warmth around the fireside on this night. Fires were left lighting in the grate to warm the spirits and food was left out for them. Even though the ancestral ghosts were benign, it was still a good idea to avoid them by going to bed early.
However, the ghosts may not have been entirely benign. They needed some sort of appeasement in the form of ritual offerings on this night. So long as the offering was forthcoming the ghosts were happy and benevolent, but if the offering was withheld another side of the ghosts features were presented.
Bad luck would descend on the household and all would not be well the coming year.
Some vestiges of this tradition may survived in the modern Halloween custom of "trick or treat". Children, dressed as ghosts and witches, invite the household to make a donation or face the consequences.
The 'treat' may represent the ritual offering while the 'trick', nowadays a harmless prank, may have in antiquity, represented the malevolent consequences of inadequately appeasing the ancestral ghost on this night.
(Newgrange.Com)