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Samhain, Feast of the Dead

  • Oct. 31st, 2007 at 8:02 PM
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Being a Brief History of Hallowe’en
Todd H. C. Fischer
Appeared in The TankArd #35 (October 2001)

The holiday we now celebrate as Hallowe’en has a long history, stretching back to the time of the Ancient Celts. For them, the evening of October 31, and morning of November 1, was the beginning of their new year. They called it Samhain (or Samhuinn, pronounced sow-en) and it was (primarily) a celebration of the dead. (In Ireland, it was Oiche Shamhna.) As the new year began with winter, a season of death, it was only natural that the Celts would honour (and ward off) those that had already passed on.
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Reborn, just in time for Hallowe'en!

  • Oct. 28th, 2007 at 11:22 AM
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Long have I lain dormant, not dead but dreaming, curled up amongst the debris of unfinished stories, unpublished articles and infantile half-formed poems. A scent then assailed me, the smell of corn husks and apples, of pumpkin and all spice, of dead leaves and candy.

I raised my head slowly, blinking away the detritus from my long unused eyes. I looked about me, blinking, wondering why I was now awake.

Then I realized. He had need of me again.

Arising from my nest I looked out the twin windows, saw his face reflected back at me from a glowing screen. A blank white glowing screen. A screen waiting to be filled with words.

Joyously I reached out and gave life to his fingers, drinking in each tap of the keys.

Reborn.

Yup. I am writing again. I haven't been at it for a while now, I've been so busy with other hobbies. However, I feel the time to flush my brain of accumulated ideas is long past, so ti was time to take pen to paper again (figuratively speaking).

This journal will be a record of a journey. My journey as I reccomence my writing, as I step back out onto the unlceared pathways through the thickets of my mind.

I invite you to come along with me.

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