The history of Halloween followed by Halloween memories!

[chrysologus400]

holyoffice made an interesting post today about the history of Halloween, or rather the mis-history of it. It was so interesting to me that I thought that I would throw out a few blurbs from it that show the conflicting accounts of the origins of a holiday about which very little is known for sure.

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memory lane

[robandjodi]

I recall when I was pretty young, I went as a robot. My costume consisted of a bucket or something over my head covered with tin foil and then a huge box with holes in it for my head, arms, and legs...also covered in tin foil. My big mistake was making the arm holes not much larger than my arms, so instead of having free range of motion, my arms were basically sticking straight out perpendicular to the sides of the box. As the night went on, my sack of candy got heavier and heavier, and holding it straight out broke me.

Another holiday memory was when my "friend" David Braun came to trick or treat with us and showed up like an hour late, thus cutting into valuable candy hoarding. I say "friend" because he went to school with me, but was kind of annoying. But at CK, there are only 2 or 3 cliques per gender, and he happened to fall into mine, so I was kind of stuck. He always wanted me to go play Hero Quest with him, but I was a bit wary of hanging out with him alone after the one time I was at his house with no other friends there, we played Shaq Fu (shudders violently).

Re: memory lane

[chrysologus400]

Lol.

I remember both of those Halloweens. It's funny imagining you as a child with your arms sticking straight out of this robot costume.