SC - Los Dias de los Muertos - Samhain
Liam Fisher
macdairi at hotmail.com
Thu Nov 4 08:43:22 PST 1999
>We still do this in Wales. We carve swedes (rutabagas) instead of
>pumpkins.
>We also traditionally have "bobbing for apples" in water and trying to bite
>an apple on a string as games in "Halloween" parties. I don't know the
>origin of those particular rituals though.
jack o'lanterns come from Smiling Jack I believe, I'll look up the legend
before going further...I just got done reading something on all of this and
can't for the life of me remember what it was...been reading Netware 5
manuals all week for a contract job *sighs*
Cadoc
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Cadoc MacDairi, Mountain Confederation, ACG
" Well you want to go out
'cause it's raining and blowing
You can't go out
'cause your roots are showing
Dye 'em black...yeah dye 'em black..."
Type O Negative -- "Black #1"
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