04.17.06
Posted in Famous Quotes, Halloween Quotes, Holiday Quotes at 12:44 pm by Administrator
Halloween Quotes
He’s not stupid; he’s possessed by a retarded ghost.
- Unknown
ON HALLOWEEN
The witches fly
Across the sky,
The owls go, “Who? Who? Who?”
The black cats yowl
And green ghosts howl,
“Scary Halloween to you!”
–Nina Willis Walter
Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and
tongue of dog, Adder’s fork, and blind-worm’s
sting, Lizard’s leg, and owlet’s wing, For a charm
of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and
bubble.
- William Shakespeare - Witches in Macbeth
There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
- Jean Baudrillard
From ghoulies and ghosties and long leggety beasties and things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us!
- Scottish saying
What fearful shapes and shadows beset his path, amidst the dim and ghastly glare
of a snowy night! With what wistful look did he eye every trembling ray of light
streaming across the waste fields from some distant window! How often was he
appalled by some shrub covered with snow, which, like a sheeted spectre,
beset his very path! How often did he shrink with curdling awe at the sound
of his own steps on the frosty crust beneath his feet; and dread to
look over his shoulder, lest he should behold some uncouth being tramping
close behind him! and how often was he thrown into complete dismay by some
rushing blast, howling among the trees, in the idea that it was the
Galloping Hessian on one of his nightly scourings!
–Washington Irving - From “The Legend of Sleep Hollow”
Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble
- William Shakespeare - Witches in Macbeth
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12.09.05
Posted in Halloween Quotes, Holiday Quotes at 4:50 pm by Administrator
HALLOWEEN QUOTES
HALLOWEEN
More than two thousand years ago
A Celebration for the Dead, Returning
The Night before the Celtic New Year
With Costumes and Sacrificial Burning.
With a Celebration of the Harvest
And to Honor one’s Dead Ancestry
It spread across all of Europe
In the Seventh Century.
“All Hallows Eve”, “Night Of The Dead”
“All Souls Day”, for the Christians
Nobody really knows for sure
Where each of those Beliefs begins.
The first lighted fruit was gourds and turnips
With Scary Faces carved, embers inside
To ward off all of the Evil Spirits
Who roamed the streets and countryside.
The Irish brought America this Tradition
Of carving turnips and even potatoes
But quickly learned Pumpkins were better
Being bigger, wherein the garden it grows.
Bobbing for apples once was popular
Dating back to ancient Roman days
To honor Pomona, Goddess of fruits
As just one of their many Holidays.
“Trick Or Treat” was for the Spirits
To leave them a “Treat” outside your door
If not they would play “Tricks” on you
With all kinds of Evil held in store.
All Cats were thought of as Spiritual
But the Black Cat was the very worst
Some thought them Incarnated Humans
And many felt that they were Cursed.
Beeswax candles were colored “Orange”
And “Black” draped Caskets were the way
Colors for those Masses for the Dead
Back there in that Ancient day.
“Fires” where Druids Sacrificed life
Burned to the skeletal “bone”
Formed what we now call “bonfires”
A “new” word we thought we’ve always known.
Worshipers danced ‘round those fires
Wearing disguises on head and skin
And throughout the years Halloween
Has become steeped in Paganism.
And today we spend fourteen billion
And most people don’t even know, “Why?”
Except for all those Ghosts and Goblins
And fake Witches flying ‘cross the Sky.
Del “Abe” Jones
October 30, 2005
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