Re: Putting the spirits to rest (post halloween tradition)
Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 10:57 pm
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If I were a spirit living in a jack o lantern, I'd be angrier at the person who smashed my pumpkin house than I would be if I had to spend a whole year locked up at a nice Georgian house with a giant fireplace. The fellar who smashed my pumpkin house...THAT'S the fellar I'd be haunting.adrian wrote:One tradition i've always went by is that after halloween we "put the spirits to rest." My grandfather taught me this... god i don't know when.. but for me.. halloween is over once you fall asleep (candle lit in jack o lantern/s) then you wake up and the candle/s are out. THAT is the end of HALLOWEEN.
Now we say that the Jack o Lanterns bring hold their own spirit and bring with them others to celebrate the holiday..
so on All Saints Day.. we take the dark faced jack o lanterns to the edge of the woods and smash them... releasing the spirits back to their resting place. if this is not done... the spirits of halloween will be locked at our house for another whole year... the spirits stop celebrating and become angry bc they hadn't moved on. they stick around and not only haunt us but bring us bad luck and mis fortune for a year!
just a little something fun we do as a post halloween tradition while we take down the decorations.
Now that's a scary thought!!!MacPhantom wrote:If I were a spirit living in a jack o lantern, I'd be angrier at the person who smashed my pumpkin house than I would be if I had to spend a whole year locked up at a nice Georgian house with a giant fireplace. The fellar who smashed my pumpkin house...THAT'S the fellar I'd be haunting.adrian wrote:One tradition i've always went by is that after halloween we "put the spirits to rest." My grandfather taught me this... god i don't know when.. but for me.. halloween is over once you fall asleep (candle lit in jack o lantern/s) then you wake up and the candle/s are out. THAT is the end of HALLOWEEN.
Now we say that the Jack o Lanterns bring hold their own spirit and bring with them others to celebrate the holiday..
so on All Saints Day.. we take the dark faced jack o lanterns to the edge of the woods and smash them... releasing the spirits back to their resting place. if this is not done... the spirits of halloween will be locked at our house for another whole year... the spirits stop celebrating and become angry bc they hadn't moved on. they stick around and not only haunt us but bring us bad luck and mis fortune for a year!
just a little something fun we do as a post halloween tradition while we take down the decorations.