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Title: Halloween: Customs, Recipes & Spells
ISBN: 1567187196
Author:
Silver RavenWolf
Publicate Date: 1999-09-01
Publish: 1999-09-01
List Price: $14.95
Average Customer Rating: 4.0
Format: Paperback
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1: Great book
Very helpfull book I really enjoyed it! Halloween is my very favorite holliday and I found the customs and recipes to be a real treat!
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2: The Fluffy Side of Halloween
This Halloween book is ideal for neophytes of the Samhain celebration and this timely ritual.I can't recommend this book for anyone looking for a serious guide to a 'Wiccan Halloween'.The book is geared to younger readers ,who dabble in 'weekend wicca' for fun and giggles.It's a good book for mom's,who are planning a more authentic Halloween party for their grade-school kids.So,you have to take the purpose of this book for what it is intended.Yet,there are more Halloween texts around that can explain the pagan 'Holy-day' better.Because Halloween has become like Christmass, over the last one hundred years,it has really lost touch with what the 'holy-day' once stood for.The major Christian holidays are quite commercialized and materialistic thesedays.With little ,is any,focus on the spirituality of the event.Like this book's cover implies,it's a glossy Halloween book for fun.If it's your type of Halloween,then you will enjoy this book.Samhain is the Celtic New Year's Day and even the Neo-Druid's Samhain Eve has become 'demonised' thesedays.In Detroit,they have the 'Devil's Night' inferno and back East there is the soapy suburban 'Goosey-Night'.Where it usually rains the next day and the 'victim' gets a free car-wash.This book also has many great recipes.I think it's a good idea to hand-out toothbrushes or mini-tubes,instead of candy everyyear.Happy Halloween and Blest Samhain this season!
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3: Great book!
This is one of the most wonderful books on Halloween ever! I love it, and use it every year. You have to make the Pumpkin Bread in this book, it's the best! It has great info and fun things to do. The spells are Awesome too.
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4: Fine and Fun
I found the beginning of this book a little confusing with all the history and the way she bouced around. I was a little disappointed that alot of the history wasn't based on wiccan view of Halloween or Samhain. It was alot of Christian history. And the rest of the book was fun which is good but then some of it seem real childish like ghoulish tuna sandwiches and whatnot. I just wish there had been more wiccan emphasism.
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5: a delicious dose
Have you ever wondered where the idea of Halloween came from? This topic has been one of heated argument and probably will continue to be, unless more people read this complete guide to the holiday and understand what it is all about. Long before the now popular Trick or Treating, Celtic peoples celebrated Samhain, a Summers end festival, and more importantly, the Celtic New Year. Samhain does not refer to any god or deity but it was a day to remember those loved ones who were departed.
Samhain - Halloween has a very long history and this title truly illustrates it very well. These lessons have been debated for centuries and never before have I found a more thorough lesson plan. Todays traditions may seem nonsensical and unconnected to true meaning at first glance, but in reality we have held true to many Celtic practices. This would surprise many a Halloween protestor!
Unraveled here are the mysteries of the backgrounds of Jack-o-lanterns, trick or treating, bonfires, scarecrows, costumes, and such. The light is shined on the many myths and superstitions that surround the holiday as well, such as the dreaded, or cherished, black cat, ghosts, witches, werewolves, vampires and bats.
Understand the holiday and all of its components and you will enjoy it all the more. Spark up your celebrations with traditional corn husk doll making, tasty festive treats and maybe a "trick" or two, like pumpkin seed divinations. A very special section that I personally enjoyed is the chapter on getting back to one of the original meanings of the day - honoring our deceased loved ones.
This well researched, inclusive book is a must for any parent with children who want to know why we carve pumpkins, dress up as ghosts and hand candy out to the neighborhood. What American child hasn't wondered these things? Here are your answers! Not just for parents, this title will entertain, and bestow knowledge to any individual who has ever pondered these same things. Poems and greeting card verse, dispersed throughout are a delightful addition to this resource, while the list of those wrongfully condemned at the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 proves that ignorance is a dangerous thing that needs remedy. "Halloween..." is a delicious dose of that remedy.
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