An excuse to further the course of childhood obesity: just what Glasgow needs :roll:
Well, that's not
exactly what Samhain is all about now, is it? :razz:8)
Samhain - In it's original form - Is the annual Pagan festival held to both remember and celebrate those who are no longer with us. Yet unlike the usual Christian style Wake (Where everyone is normally quiet and in mourning at the passing of a specific friend/loved one) The festival of Samhain is a most joyous and happy time for us Heathens...For it is the festival in which the Spirits of our dearly departed are invited to come and share in our feasts and our merriment!

Samhain also marks the coming and welcoming of Winter, the departure and farewells to Autumn, and also the Pagan new year.
It's the invitation of departed Spirits unto the celebrations of Samhain that has led to the whole
spooky feel and objects normally associated with the festival; Including Jack-o-lanterns, Witches and broomsticks, and trick-or-treating. 8)
(This
spooky feel is often accentuated by the incorrect (And slanderous) assertion by certain sects of Christianity that Samhain is a satanic and "evil" event.

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TRANSLATION: were all invited round to Death's place for a wild party, murder mystery and a game of Dracula
Well...If I honestly had the facilities and the space to do so, then that would be the case - But remember that I live in an 80's council flat, and therefore have barely enough room for my bed, a chest of drawers, and myself.

hock::roll:

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Farewell, and a joyous Samhain unto thee all once again!
