Comments on: All Hallows and All Souls are here again

By: Welshcakes Limoncello

Welshcakes Limoncello — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:53:04 +0000

I used to be a right grump about it in the UK and hide. We don’t get any bother here.

By: CherryPie

CherryPie — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:32:02 +0000

I think I was OK

By: James Higham

James Higham — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:02:23 +0000

Let’s just say there was a risk attached.

By: CherryPie

CherryPie — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:57:40 +0000

So me going out all day and not coming back till late at night was not a good idea then?

By: xensen

xensen — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 02:24:48 +0000

Of course Samhain, Halloween, Ancestor’s Day, the Day of the Dead, whatever you want to call it, originated as a solar observance. It is the cross-quarter day between the equinox and the solstice. It marks the beginning of winter if you consider the solstice to be midwinter (the counterpart to the “midsummer” in, for example, A Midsummer Night’s Dream). Because the advent of winter is often associated with descent to the underworld (Persephone, etc.), the manifestations of demons and the demonic on this day makes sense.

By: James Higham

James Higham — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:57:35 +0000

Sweets. Hmmmm – that gets me thinking.

By: Lord T

Lord T — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:54:17 +0000

Too busy getting mugged by kids after my sweets.

By: James Higham

James Higham — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:06:47 +0000

Don’t all rush to leave a comment at once now.