Menu For A Samhain Feast...

Roast Beef, --- Roast Turkey or Chicken, --- Lasagna, --- Colcannon (Potatoes mashed with cooked cabbage, garlic and onions, milk, butter and pepper), --- Hubbard Squash with butter and nutmeg, --- Black & Orange Carrot and Raisin salad with mayo, --- Tossed Salad, --- Rye Bread with whipped butter, Pumpernickel bread with cream cheese, --- Fresh sliced apples, --- Chocolate cake, Blackberry pie and Apple pie for desert, --- Burgundy wine, --- Apple cider, --- Halloween candy. >>> OH, DELISH!!!

A Simple Samain Dinner Menu...

Beef Stew, --- Black & Orange Carrot and Raisin Salad with mayo, --- Rye Bread and whipped butter, --- Fresh Apple slices, --- Chocolate cake and Blackberry pie for Dessert, --- Burgundy wine, --- Apple cider. >>> YUM!!!

Sooo Very Cool, --- 1940s Halloween Jazz!!!...

Missing Halloween...

The Addams Family At Hallolween, --- "Wake The Dead!!!'''...

Samhain At Stonehenge

Happy Samhain!!!...

Samhain Blessings To All!!!...

Bad Faeries...

Now, --- I MUST tell you, and I won't mince words here, that most faeries are what humans call BAD... And, I mean REALLY BAD, --- your worst nightmare!!!... Of course, they, the very wicked darlings, are part of my court, --- The Unseelie Court. >>> HERE ARE A FEW: The Stray Sod... In contemporary fantasy literature, a stray sod is a clump of grass enchanted by faeries. If a person steps on one, they will become disoriented and lost, even in familiar surroundings. Wearing an item of clothing inside-out breaks the enchantment, allowing the person to find their way again. The concept and phrase appear to originate in ancient Celtic mythology, specifically Irish folklore. In more modern Christianized interpretations, the source of the enchantment may not be fairies. In other writing and in speech, the phrase "stepped on a stray sod" can be used metaphorically to denote sudden, unexpected or inexplicable disorientation. Stray sods appear in the series The Spiderwick Chronicles, disorienting travelers. The companion guide to the series notes that in order to reverse the effects, one must either have bread in his or her pocket or turn their clothes inside out. >>> The Doppleganger... A doppelgänger is a supernatural double of a living person, especially one that haunts its original counterpar. In common parlance, this refers to any supernatural lookalike... Percy Shelley, per Mary Shelley, had claimed to have met his own doppelgänger. On 8 July 1822, the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley drowned in the Bay of Spezia near Lerici in Italy. On 15 August, while staying at Pisa, Percy's wife Mary Shelley, an author and editor, wrote a letter to Maria Gisborne in which she relayed Percy's claims to her that he had met his own doppelgänger. A week after Mary's nearly fatal miscarriage, in the early hours of 23 June, Percy had had a nightmare about the house collapsing in a flood, and also ... talking it over the next morning he told me that he had had many visions lately—he had seen the figure of himself which met him as he walked on the terrace and said to him—"How long do you mean to be content"—No very terrific words & certainly not prophetic of what has occurred. But Shelley had often seen these figures when ill; but the strangest thing is that Mrs. Williams saw him. Now Jane, though a woman of sensibility, has not much imagination & is not in the slightest degree nervous—neither in dreams or otherwise. She was standing one day, the day before I was taken ill, [15 June] at a window that looked on the Terrace with Trelawny—it was day—she saw as she thought Shelley pass by the window, as he often was then, without a coat or jacket—he passed again—now as he passed both times the same way—and as from the side towards which he went each time there was no way to get back except past the window again (except over a wall twenty feet from the ground) she was struck at seeing him pass twice thus & looked out & seeing him no more she cried—"Good God can Shelley have leapt from the wall?.... Where can he be gone?" Shelley, said Trelawny—"No Shelley has past—What do you mean?" Trelawny says that she trembled exceedingly when she heard this & it proved indeed that Shelley had never been on the terrace & was far off at the time she saw him. Percy Shelley's drama Prometheus Unbound (1820) contains the following passage in Act I: "Ere Babylon was dust, / The Magus Zoroaster, my dead child, / Met his own image walking in the garden. / That apparition, sole of men, he saw. / For know there are two worlds of life and death: / One that which thou beholdest; but the other / Is underneath the grave, where do inhabit / The shadows of all forms that think and live / Till death unite them and they part no more...." --- "Wikpedia". >>> The Succubus... A succubus is a supernatural entity or demon that manifests itself as a beautiful woman. This mythical creature appears in men’s dreams and seduces them into performing sexual acts. Legends and religious traditions claim that repeated sexual interactions with a succubus can cause a man to lose his physical and mental health, and, in the most extreme cases, even die. Folklore has likened the act of having sexual intercourse with a succubus to entering a cave of ice. In later legends, the succubus also took on the form of sirens, which were beautiful mermaids who lured unsuspecting sailors to shipwreck onto rocky shores. Origin of the Term, Succubus... The word “succubus” first originated in the late 1300s and was derived from the Late Latin term, “succubare,” which means to “lie beneath.” This implies the creature’s implied sexual position in contrast to the man’s face-down position. The Various Appearances of the Succubus... When it comes to her actual appearance, the succubus has been described in widely different ways. In many modern representations, the creature may appear in men’s dreams or in the physical world, as well. In many works of literature, the succubus has been described as an extremely beautiful, voluptuous, and desirable woman who often has curled horns, a barbed tail, fangs, bat-like wings, or glowing eyes. However, in older legends, the succubus was not so alluring. Well through medieval times, they were described as grotesque and deformed beings, with many characteristics that demons are thought to possess. Faces like gargoyles, elongated clawed feet, and fingers with ragged claws were all common features believed to have been possessed by the succubus. In some stories, the Succubus is depicted as being slightly smaller than an average woman, who either stopped or crawled on the ground instead of standing upright and walking. --- "Mythologian". >>> Here are 19 experiences of humans who messed with the faeries!!!... You want more faerie experiences???... Try reading "Fairies," by Janet Bord, a little paperback. You probably can get it online at Thrift Books. ;)

Samhain Rituals & spells...

Prince Phillip is as brave as a lion,,,

...but, he drives me nuts with his optimism. >>>

How dangerous are scorpions???...

Such A Great Old Movie, --- made way before sophisticated special effects & CGI...

The fight with the giant squid from "Twenty thousand Leagues Below The Sea"!!! >>>

They get their just deserts, --- in Indiana Jones movies... (Ah, --- poetic justice)

(We all KNEW they shouldn't have messed with that!!!) >>> (They're extraterrestrials or, ---uh, interterrestrails, --- YOU IDIOT!!!) >>> Uh-oh... MELTED!!!) >>>

15 Of The World's Most Dangerous Sea Creatures!!!...

WHAT is the world's most deadly creature???!!!...

44 Of Lovecraft's Monsters!!!...

Luke Evans, --- the sexiest Dracula ever!!!... (And, --- he sings that passionately beautiful song!)

The History Of "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" >>> There are two accounts of the origin of the song. Ewan MacColl said that he wrote the song for Peggy Seeger after she asked him to pen a song for the play in which she was performing at the time. He wrote the song and taught it to Seeger over the telephone. Seeger has told a similar story: she started an affair with MacColl in London in 1956 but returned to the U.S. to separate herself from MacColl because he was already married with a child. Seeger worked for a radio show in Los Angeles the following year, and she informed MacColl that the show had asked for a "hopeful love song" because all the folk songs she sang were sad. In one of his phone calls to her from England, MacColl sang the song he had written. MacColl also used to send her tapes to listen to while they were apart and that this song was included on one of them. Seeger said that she did not connect the song as between MacColl and her the way MacColl had written it because she was not "in love" with him at the time and sang the song from his perspective instead. Seeger performed the song in Los Angeles and then in Chicago, but MacColl himself never recorded the song after singing it to her.

Semiramis...

Egypt's Mastery Of Magic & The Occult...

Halloween History...

Tarantulas are kinda cute...

The Top 10 Most Venomous Spiders In The World...

"Double, double, --- toil and trouble!!!"...

"Love is kinda crazy with a spooky little gril like you!"...

The Rat Beast Of The Paris Catacombs...

Is chocolate a drug???...

The "Nipples Of Venus" >>>

;) ... Red capes & Mayan ancestry >>> The history of chocolate dates back more than 5,000 years, when the cacao tree was first domesticated in present-day Mexico. Soon after domestication, the tree was introduced to Mesoamerica, where cacao drinks gained significance as an elite beverage among cultures including the Maya and the Aztecs. Cacao was considered a gift from the gods and was used as currency, medicine, and in ceremonies. A variety of cacao-based drinks existed, including an alcoholic beverage made by fermenting the pulp around the seeds. It is unclear when a drink that can strictly be defined as chocolate originated. Early evidence of chocolate consumption dates to 600 BC, when it was often associated with the heart and believed to have psychedelic properties. --- Wikpedia.

Is Prince Phillip the best Disney Prince, --- really???...

Halloween Fudge...

Dark Disney!!!???...

A Little Different Take On The Sleeping Beauty Story...

Me V.S. Prince Phillip...

OKAY!!!... What's he got going for him but courage, stamina, intelligence, chivalry, the power of royalty and good looks???!!!... HEY, --- I have ALL those things TOO!!!...

Mother Gothel From "Tangled"...

Well, --- Mother Gothel is a mess!!!...

Cruella De Ville, --- Fashionista...

"Mirror!!!... Mirror!!!!!!!!!"... (Jealousy is NOT a good Thing!!!)

Cat Halloween Make Up...

Ursula gets really mad!!!!!!!!!!!....

How To Grow Black Roses...

Apologies To Mister Lovecraft...

Opening Titles Of The James Bond Movie "Spectre"...

...I JUST LOVE the song "The Writing's On The Wall," and the evil octopi in the opening titles!!!...

10 Interesting Facts About El Dia De Muertos...

Witchcraft In Romania...

The Day Of The Dead...

The Day of the Dead (Spanish: Día de (los) Muertos) is a holiday traditionally celebrated on November 1 and 2, though other days, such as October 31 or November 6, may be included depending on the locality. The multi-day holiday involves family and friends gathering to pay respects and remember friends and family members who have died. These celebrations can take a humorous tone, as celebrants remember amusing events and anecdotes about the departed. It is widely observed in Mexico, where it largely developed, and is also observed in other places, especially by people of Mexican heritage. The observance falls during the Christian period of Allhallowtide. Some argue that there are Indigenous Mexican or ancient Aztec influences that account for the custom, though others see it as a local expression of the Allhallowtide season that was brought to the region by the Spanish; the Day of the Dead has become a way to remember those forebears of Mexican culture. The Day of the Dead is largely seen as having a festive characteristic. Traditions connected with the holiday include honoring the deceased using calaveras and marigold flowers known as cempazúchitl, building home altars called ofrendas with the favorite foods and beverages of the departed, and visiting graves with these items as gifts for the deceased. The celebration is not solely focused on the dead, as it is also common to give gifts to friends such as candy sugar skulls, to share traditional pan de muerto with family and friends, and to write light-hearted and often irreverent verses in the form of mock epitaphs dedicated to living friends and acquaintances, a literary form known as calaveras literarias. --- "Wikpedia".

Professor Mc Gonagal's Best Moments...

Potion Bottles!!!...

"A Black Cat On The Roof"...

The Day Of The Dead Parade, ---- From the James Bond Movie "Spectre"...

...LOVE THIS!!! >>>

Famous Urban Legends That Turned Out To Be True...

Halloween Make Up Ideas...

Corvin Castle Of Transylvania...

Spooky owl!!!...

Cadillac Hearses!!!...

Crows ARE very smart!!!...

"The Raven," read by Christopher Lee... :)

The Ravens Of The Tower Of London!!!... ;)

Disney Skeleton Dance!!!...

Foxgloves, --- they are beautiful & deadly!!!...

"Hocus Pocus," --- Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!...

Epic Halloween Organ Solo...

The Top 10 Black Roses...

"Batty Bat," From Sesame Street...

The Legend Of The Corpse Bride & How To Make Her Costume...

I gotta admit this is pretty touching...

The LURE Of The Bad Boy!!!... ;)

Bad boys are confident...

Bad Guy Lucifer!!!... =^_^= ;)

The Most Evil Disney Villains!!!... (MAU-Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!)

Legends Of Transylvania...

Van Helsing & The Bro Werewolf...

Van Helsing & The Vampire Girls...

Van Helsing Defends Frankenstein...

Flying Jack Skellington...

The Legend Of Jack-O-Lantern...

The Origin Of My "Mal," --- a selfish young man uses a faerie girl who was in love with him!!!...

"ALL THE POWERS OF HELL!!!!!!!!!!...

(Evil CAN defeat Good if Good is not very, VERY careful!!!... HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!) >>>

The Most Evil & Disturbing Places In The World!!!...

"The Funeral March," by Chopin...

...Dum-dum-DA-dum--DUM!!!... ;)

The Top Female Serial Killers In Movies...

One of my favorite movies, --- "Black Widow," with Debra Winger...

This is how I make "Death-By-Chocolate"...

...In a large bowl ... A quart of the darkest chocolate ice cream you can find + a layer of Oreo cookies + a layer of chocolate chips + a layer of chocolate whipped cream made by adding cocoa powder to Cool Whip. Drizzle with chocolate syrup. Top with chocolate sprinkles. Grab spoons and eat it as a group right out of the big bowl. Prepare to be delightfully sick!!!... Haaaaaaaa!!!!

"You poor simple fools, thinking you could defeat me..."

...the Mistress Of Evil!!!"...

Psychopathic Villains!!!...

Traits Of A Psychopath >>> Arrogant and deceitful interpersonal style: impression management or superficial charm, inflated and grandiose sense of self-worth, pathological lying/deceit, and manipulation for personal gain. Deficient affective experience: lack of remorse or guilt, shallow affect (coldness and unemotionality), callousness and lack of empathy, and failure to accept responsibility for own actions. Impulsive and irresponsible lifestyle: impulsivity, sensation-seeking and risk-taking, irresponsible and unreliable behavior, financially parasitic lifestyle, and a lack of realistic, long-term goals. --- From "Wikpedia".

Halloween Wine!!!...

Prince Phillip & Aurora, --- "You Belong To Me"...

The Darkness Of The Hunchback Of Notre Dame...

***The Plot of the book by Victor Hugo... In 1482 Paris, during the 21st year of the reign of Louis XI, 10 years before Christopher Columbus landed in the Americas, sixteen-year-old Roma dancer Esmeralda is the romantic and sexual interest of many men, including Captain Phoebus de Chateaupers; poet Pierre Gringoire; the deformed cathedral bell-ringer Quasimodo, and his guardian Archdeacon Claude Frollo. Frollo is torn between his obsessive lust for Esmeralda and the rules of Notre-Dame Cathedral. He orders Quasimodo to kidnap her, but Quasimodo is captured by Phoebus and his guards. After he saves her, Esmeralda becomes infatuated with Phoebus. Gringoire, who attempted to help Esmeralda but was knocked out by Quasimodo, unwittingly wanders into the "Court of Miracles", populated by the Roma and the truands (beggars). They are about to hang him for being an outsider, but Esmeralda saves him by agreeing to marry him. She only does it to save his life, however, and much to Gringoire's annoyance, refuses to allow him to touch her. The following day, Quasimodo is sentenced to be flogged and turned on the pillory for two hours, followed by another hour's public exposure. He calls for water. Seeing his thirst, Esmeralda approaches the public stocks and offers him a drink of water. It saves him, and she captures his heart. Frollo learns from Gringoire, with whom he has a passing acquaintance, that Esmeralda has taught her pet goat, Djali, who sometimes performs with her on stage, to spell "PHOEBUS" using movable letters, and that she often whispers the name Phoebus when she thinks she is alone. Frollo suspects Phoebus may be a name. As it happens, Phoebus is a drinking companion of Frollo's dissolute younger brother, Jehan. After seeing them set out for a local tavern, Frollo follows them. He learns that Phoebus has arranged an assignation with Esmeralda at a local boarding-house, and follows Phoebus there. He observes the meeting from an adjoining room. Esmeralda begs Phoebus to marry her, but Phoebus only wants to lie with her, and eventually seduces her. Inflamed with jealousy, Frollo stabs Phoebus, though not fatally. Esmeralda briefly faints, though not before she has caught a glimpse of Frollo. When she recovers, Frollo has fled, and she is found near Phoebus' body. Esmeralda is arrested and charged with the attempted murder of Phoebus and also with witchcraft, and is sentenced to death by hanging. The prison's torturer hurts her so badly with an iron boot torture that she falsely confesses to Phoebus' attempted murder. While imprisoned, awaiting her execution, Esmeralda is visited by Frollo. The Archdeacon professes his love for her and promises to help her escape if she reciprocates. However, recognising him as Phoebus' true attacker, she angrily rebuffs him. As Esmeralda is being led to the gallows, Quasimodo swings down from Notre-Dame and carries her off to the cathedral, temporarily protecting her – under the law of sanctuary – from arrest. Frollo delves deeper into his obsession and becomes frustrated with his plan failing. Upon seeing Esmeralda and Quasimodo when going to meet the latter, he grows jealous. That night he breaks into Esmeralda's cell with his master-key and attempts to rape her. Quasimodo intervenes and beats him, almost throwing him off the cathedral before the moonlight reveals his identity. Frollo kicks Quasimodo and declares to Esmeralda that if he cannot have her, no one shall. Frollo later informs Gringoire that the Court of Parlement has voted to remove Esmeralda's right to sanctuary so she can no longer seek shelter in the cathedral and will be taken away to be executed. Clopin Trouillefou, the leader of the Roma, hears the news from Gringoire and rallies the Court of Miracles to charge Notre-Dame and rescue Esmeralda. Quasimodo incorrectly assumes the approaching Roma intend to harm Esmeralda and drives them off. As Quasimodo defends the cathedral against the invaders, the uproar reaches the king, who is incorrectly informed that those attacking the cathedral are eager for Esmeralda's hanging rather than trying to rescue her. The king orders the authorities to dispatch the invaders and calls for Esmeralda's immediate execution to settle the unrest. In the chaos, Esmeralda is taken from the cathedral by Frollo and Gringoire. The king's men come to Notre-Dame searching for Esmeralda. Quasimodo believes they intend to rescue her and helps them, meaning that if she had still been there, he would have inadvertently betrayed her. Frollo once again attempts to win Esmeralda's love, but she asserts that she would rather die than be with him. Frollo goes to alert the authorities while trapping Esmeralda with Sister Gudule, a reclusive anchoress who bears an extreme hatred for the Roma, as she believes they cannibalised her infant daughter. However, it is revealed that Gudule is really Esmeralda's birth mother and that Esmeralda is Gudule's long-lost daughter Agnès, abducted and raised by the Roma. The two women's joyous reunion is cut short when the king's men arrive to take Esmeralda to the gallows. A desperate Gudule clings to Esmeralda even as she is taken to the place of execution. The guards pull the old woman off her daughter, and she falls to the pavement and dies from the harsh impact. From the tower of Notre-Dame, Frollo and Quasimodo witness as Esmeralda is hanged. Upon observing this, Quasimodo pushes the Archdeacon from the height of the cathedral to his death. With nothing left to live for, Quasimodo vanishes and is never seen again. A deformed skeleton is found many years later embracing another in the charnel house at Montfaucon, implying that Quasimodo had sought Esmeralda among the decaying corpses and laid down to die while holding her. As the guards attempt to pull the skeletons apart, his skeleton crumbles to dust. --- From "Wikpedia".

Haunted Paris???!!!...

Prince Phillip From "Sleeping Beauty"... (I know it's a little sappy... BLAH!!!... True Love!!!!!!!!!)

Make An Adorable Doll Of Me!!!...

Haunted New England...

Life and the movies are not fair!!!!!!...

My favorite Halloween snack...

Yes, yes, --- he's handsome and tall with great hair and he's got those sexy bedroom eyes, BUT, looks aren't everything!!!...

Vintage Frank...

OH, --- COOL!!!!...

Hmmm... ;)

A story...

A cute song!!!!!!...

Don't I have beautiful teeth?!!!!!...

My lazy and idiotic, useless ____ !!!!!!!...