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This is the Halloween costume contest at the Skate-a-drome in Salem, Va. This is about '64. The girl at far left is my sis', she won 1st place (the prize was a new set of skates). I'm 3rd from the right in the big hat (posa be a scare-crow, looked right when I held my arms straight out).
Halloween 2008:
--purple, pre-lit christmas tree
--black plastic rose as the star
--orange garland with bugs in it
--purple lightbulb
--black and neon green electric jack-o-lantern
--and an OBLIGATORY, hand-carved jack-o-lantern lit with a candle
(Honestly, if you don't at least have that last one, then the rest is irrelevant.)
Hallow is a popular village outside Worcester, UK. The Hallow Village Community Group invited everyone to their HALLOW.....EEN ON THE GREEN on 31 October 2014. There were scores of pumpkins arranged round the magnificent village green oak tree.
There was a carved pumpkin competition.
Many people came in their Halloween costumes, both adults and children for which there were prizes.
There was a food tent, with Hot Dogs, Baked Potatoes, and Pumpkin Soup. Hot Chocolate and soft drinks.
A brilliant evening in the glorious warm atmosphere.
Erin Johnson was struck by a motorist eight years ago on Halloween night. The traumatic brain injury she suffered has deeply affected all of us who love her. Please be especially careful this Halloween.
Halloween decorations from this Halloween. I'm a little late to post these photos, but better late than never!
This was the last car I built at LEGOLAND California, a Halloween Hearse. I made it just for fun, although it does come out every year now for Halloween.
Its kind of ironic, since the very first car I made was also a Hearse. For some strange reason, the original Hearse in the New Orleans scene was tan -- not black, tan -- and it had gotten stolen! I had to rebuild the car. So instead of making it tan, I made it black, and added curtains to the back windows.
The Halloween holiday is commonly thought to have pagan roots, even though the etymology of the word is Christian.[11] Historian Nicholas Rogers, exploring the origins of Halloween, notes that while "some folklorists have detected its origins in the Roman feast of Pomona, the goddess of fruits and seeds, or in the festival of the dead called Parentalia, it is more typically linked to the Celtic festival of Samhain, derived from the Old Irish Samuin meaning "summer's end".[11] Samhain was the first and the most important of the four quarter days in the medieval Irish and Scottish[12] calendar[13][14] and, falling on the last day of autumn, it was a time for stock-taking and preparation for the cold winter months ahead.[11] There was also a sense that this was the time of year when the physical and supernatural worlds were closest and magical things could happen.[13][14] To ward off these spirits, the Gaels built huge, symbolically regenerative bonfires and invoked the help of the gods through animal and perhaps even human sacrifice.[11] In the Western Isles of Scotland the Sluagh, or fairy host was regarded as composed of the souls of the dead flying through the air, and the feast of the dead at Hallowe'en was likewise the festival of the fairies.[15]
Halloween in Salem ist im Prinzip ein riesiges Kirmes-Fest. Wer nach Wicca-Traditionen sucht, ist in Salem falsch. Die beiden Wicca-Museen sind ein US-amerikanisch durchgekauter Mischmasch von "coolen" Religonsideen... incl. Buddha, Channukahleuchter und indianischen Totems.