Post Views: 119 Regular readers of my blog will know that I love the Halloween season. I also love bonfires. I always strive to find some odd fact every year […]
Seasonal
Post Views: 780 My thoughts on new year’s resolutions for the 2019/2020 new year, new decade all revolve around the idea of Karma, positivity and the realization that once you let […]
2020 New Year, new Decade
Post Views: 864 Traditional Christmas characters here in the United States are typically friendly. Think of the many incarnations of St. Nicholas. Iceland on the other hand is home to […]
Yule Cat Jólakötturin
Post Views: 947 As far back as I can remember my mother had always helped us decorate for the xmas holiday by taping up brightly colored art prints known as […]
Die Cut Decorations for Christmas
Post Views: 1,100 I love to dig deeply into holiday and secular traditions. Learning new things is what give life its spice. Speaking of spice I ran across a fantastic […]
Barmbrack, an Irish Halloween tradition
Post Views: 1,100 All through the year I collect funny images and Halloween cartoons about Halloween. Every year I post the ones I liked best. It has become kind of […]
Halloween Cartoons 2019
1 Post Views: 1,383 As a child growing up in the 1980’s, I was never shielded from the rampant consumerism this decade is well known for. The xmas holidays always conjure the […]
Hills is where the toys were
Post Views: 1,560 Yule is the original Norse-Germanic Pagan festival that marks todays Winter Solstice before it was replaced by the christian version of ‘christmas”. The lyric from “Deck the […]
Yule Never Believe this..because you were taught
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Halloween Cartoons 2018
1 Post Views: 2,303 I like to explore the cultural connections between the holiday of Halloween and people that invented it. One of the more interesting legends I have run across […]
The Cutty Black Sow, a Gaelic Legend
Post Views: 2,354 Halloween always makes us think of the darkest, dankest, ritualistic parts of ourselves. Writers often use the holiday as inspiration for their works. King, Bradbury, Le Fanu […]
Pumpkin Head, Dark beings with Jack-O-Lantern heads
Post Views: 887 I stepped into our neighborhood bargain store and immediately my eyes were drawn to a shelf in the far corner where a lone box marked Weber sat. […]