Beginnings of Halloween
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What I love in August is the start of Halloween lines creeping in! Craft suppliers have released and are releasing beautiful stamps, papers, washi tapes and also shops are selling spooky garlands ornaments and decorations. A few years ago in the UK you never really saw any Halloween items until October and even then it was only a token effect of a few rubber bats, masks and sweets. Going back further to the 1970's and Halloween parties were really unusual! So it was quite a thing that my parents did a few. We used used to have home made punch or elderberry wine, jacket potatoes, and lots of things on sticks. Mum used to organise apple bobbing and Dad used to wheel people around the garden in a wheelbarrow which was hilarious. We would set up a disco in the front room playing records such as Alice Cooper feed my Frankenstien and Black Magic Woman by Santana! Costumes were handmade from sheets and binbags, pumpkins were a rarity so my Mum used to carve out oranges! They smelt fantastic! 🎃 It was all done on a tight budget but it was a lot of good fun! 🤣 Halloween nowadays is becoming a major festival again in the UK alongside Easter and Christmas. I recently heard someone say "oh Halloween is an American thing" they didn't realise Halloween or Samhain, using it's Gaelic name, had roots going back to the British Isles for thousand of years. So I thought it would be nice with the run up to Halloween to post some links to the history of Halloween from it's earliest history to the Spooktacular way America celebrates this fabulous season! Here are some interesting links |
