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Tom Skelton shivered. Anyone could see that the wind was a special wind this night, and the darkness took on a special feel because it was All Hallows' Eve.
“So light a fire!" Harry choked. "Yes...of course...but there's no wood!" ... "HAVE YOU GONE MAD!" Ron bellowed. "ARE YOU A WITCH OR NOT!”
To me, a witch is a woman that is capable of letting her intuition
take hold of her actions, that communes with her environment, that isn't afraid of facing challenges.
We never know who is walking beside us, who is our spiritual teacher. That one - who annoys you so - pretends for a day that he's the one, your personal Obi Wan Kenobi. The first of November is a splendid, subversive holiday.Midweek Motif ~ Halloween
or Celebrating the Dead
(31 October ― 2 November)
Your Challenge: Show your truth about this holiday in a poem that tells a story.
Is Halloween a children's holiday, as marketed in the USA?
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| Trick-or-treating |
A Wiccan or Witches' New Year?
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| Oweynagat ('cave of the cats'), one of the many 'gateways to the Otherword' from whence beings and spirits were said to have emerged on Samhain. |
All Saints Day and/or The Day of the Dead?
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| On All Hallows' Eve, Christians in some parts of the world visit graveyards to pray and place flowers and candles on the graves of their loved ones. |
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(The next Midweek Motif will be Bonfires.)
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