Not much today.  Been a pretty Tiring day, but I did mange to run into this very interesting info regarding why witches are usually described as having broomsticks and flying.  It was somethingI didn’t know myself which is saying a lot since I know a LOT about Halloween.     The witch is a central symbol of Halloween. The name comes from the Saxon wica, meaning wise one. When setting out for a Sabbath, witches rubbed a...

    The Druids were the “wise men” of the pagan Celtic society.  Little is known of them with certainty; however it is thought that they played the roles of priests in the Celtic religion.     Most folks know that the holiday we call Halloween is derived from the Celtic festival of Samhain.  This was one of the great Celtic fire festivals and marked the end of the harvest and the beginning of winter. The Celtic people...

         In Mexico they actually celebrate two creepy Fall holidays!  Día de los Muertos, the Day of the Dead began as an Aztec festival dedicated to a goddess called Mictecacihuatl. This festival predates Halloween by almost a thousand years.  Halloween has also been celebrated in Mexico for the past 40 years and gains popularity every year, especially among children. The Halloween celebration has, however, been Mexicanized...

    I never really took the time to look up the origins of one of my all time favorite fright-fest foods.  I have enjoyed making and eating this tastey treat as long as I can remember.         We should all thank Dan Walker for his efforts in the late 1950′s, for it was this Kraft Foods sales representative that invented the wonder that is the Caramel Apple!  His invention was actuallya kit sold by Kraft using their...

     One of the annual fall traditions in our home is watching “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” together.  There’s something sadly reassuring about watching poor Charlie have the ball pulled out just as he’s about to kick it… and if he ever got anything other than rocks in his bag, I’d wonder where the world went wrong. Not that good ol’ Charles deserves to have a...

     The traditional carving of the jack-o-lantern has its roots in a very dark tale from Irish lore about a man named Stingy Jack, who dared to drink with the devil and gambled his soul on the sharpness of his wits.  Originally Turnips were hollowed out and used as talismans against the dark forces of evil. Immigrants from Ireland brought the jack o’lantern tradition with them when they came to the United States. They soon...