Halloween Support Thread

[elfin_odalisque]

Well, harumph! And harumph again. Does that make you feel better, Horsie?

I was under the inpression that All Hallows Day is November 1, and All Hallows Evening ia the night before.

I have just posted a story about the ghost of Elvis Presley but it is not very scary and is not intended for Halloween.

Too true. But, better still, November 2 is All Souls Day.

What is your preference, a Hallow or a Soul?

Which one's got the more meat?

 

[dreampilot79]

just a little thought though elfin... with 37 children... and living in a cardboard box.. you probably qualify for government assistance with voluntary sterilization...

either that.. or you should perhaps consider giving up sex!

 

[elfin_odalisque]

I would - except that I am rather busy on Walpurgis Night. It is my birthday. I was born after dark (of course) in a place very significant for Druids. I was covered with more hair than I have now and in a caul. Therefore I can't drown and I am very popular with witches.

Watch out for flying Ogs on 30th April.

Og

PS: My youngest daughter was born on Halloween. It's no surprise that we have a lot in common.

Usinoch for Samhain, Stonehenge for the Summer Solstice and Deepest Kent for Walpurgis.

Fancy a quick game of Quidditch at the end of April?

 

[oggbashan]

Well, harumph! And harumph again. Does that make you feel better, Horsie?

I was under the inpression that All Hallows Day is November 1, and All Hallows Evening ia the night before.

I have just posted a story about the ghost of Elvis Presley but it is not very scary and is not intended for Halloween.

All Hallows Eve (not evening!) is the DAY before November 1st, All Hallows Day and therefore is October 31th.

Christmas Eve (not evening) is the DAY before Christmas Day.

Of course things happen after dark on All Hallows EVE, hence Hallowe'en.

Og

 

[oggbashan]

Usinoch for Samhain, Stonehenge for the Summer Solstice and Deepest Kent for Walpurgis.

Fancy a quick game of Quidditch at the end of April?

I should return to my native land for Walpurgis. Not Kent, but a part of Wales steeped in Druids' blood - thanks to the Romans.

I'm not too good at Quidditch. That requires broom flyers with the agility of fighter pilots. I'm more like the pilot of a wide-bodied jet with the autopilot switched on. I can fly while fast asleep.

Og

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

I should return to my native land for Walpurgis. Not Kent, but a part of Wales steeped in Druids' blood - thanks to the Romans.

I'm not too good at Quidditch. That requires broom flyers with the agility of fighter pilots. I'm more like the pilot of a wide-bodied jet with the autopilot switched on. I can fly while fast asleep.

Og

Og,

I may have mentioned this before, but I'm a Reform Druid. It's probably a new world thing. In addition to trees, we also worship bushes. At least we did until a few years ago. Now there's the threat of a schism. A splinter group, so to speak, is pushing to include the Judeo-Christian concept of a burning bush as a sacred object.

I'll keep you posted.

Yours in Druishnes.

The Right Rev Rumple Foreskin

 

[oggbashan]

Og,

I may have mentioned this before, but I'm a Reform Druid. It's probably a new world thing. In addition to trees, we also worship bushes. At least we did until a few years ago. Now there's the threat of a schism. A splinter group, so to speak, is pushing to include the Judeo-Christian concept of a burning bush as a sacred object.

I'll keep you posted.

Yours in Druishnes.

The Right Rev Rumple Foreskin

The Celtic or Prythonic Druids were slaughtered by the Roman Legions on the Isle of Anglesey. Holyhead on Holy Isle was their last refuge in AD 91. 'Holy' in Holyhead and Holy Isle was holy to Druids long before Christianity reached there. There are standing stones on Holy Isle and in Anglesey that are similar to, but smaller than, Stonehenge. There aren't many trees around...

Og

 

[oggbashan]

Bump before I get back to writing.

Og

 

[elfin_odalisque]

Og,

I may have mentioned this before, but I'm a Reform Druid. It's probably a new world thing. In addition to trees, we also worship bushes. At least we did until a few years ago. Now there's the threat of a schism. A splinter group, so to speak, is pushing to include the Judeo-Christian concept of a burning bush as a sacred object.

I'll keep you posted.

Yours in Druishnes.

The Right Rev Rumple Foreskin

Good to see you back on the boards! Cue for a Fred Astaire moment?

The game is to tease Og that Druids are really Irish and French - which is true.

Can you tell him that that the middle of Thomas Hardy's Wessex country was populated by Belgians before Julius C arrrived?

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

Good to see you back on the boards! Cue for a Fred Astaire moment?

The game is to tease Og that Druids are really Irish and French - which is true.

Can you tell him that that the middle of Thomas Hardy's Wessex country was populated by Belgians before Julius C arrrived?

Thanks for the welcome, Elfin. Sorry to be so far behind the curve. Of course, I'm usually behind the curve but this time the beginning of the curve is miles ahead.

Can I tell Og the middle of Thomas Hardy's Wessex country was populated by Belgians before Julius C arrrived? No problem. However, Literotica truth in posting regulations require me to state that I have no idea whether or not that's true.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[elfin_odalisque]

Thanks for the welcome, Elfin. Sorry to be so far behind the curve. Of course, I'm usually behind the curve but this time the beginning of the curve is miles ahead.

Can I tell Og the middle of Thomas Hardy's Wessex country was populated by Belgians before Julius C arrrived? No problem. However, Literotica truth in posting regulations require me to state that I have no idea whether or not that's true.

Rumple Foreskin

Of course, research is vital. Nevertheless, it's true, even if I must go back and research my sorces and list my references.

Og on a broomstick? Who's got the camera?

 

[oggbashan]

Good to see you back on the boards! Cue for a Fred Astaire moment?

The game is to tease Og that Druids are really Irish and French - which is true.

Can you tell him that that the middle of Thomas Hardy's Wessex country was populated by Belgians before Julius C arrrived?

Tease misfired. The RL Og is descended from those Belgians! My 'tribe' was mentioned by Julius Caesar in his Gallic War.

Og

 

[elfin_odalisque]

Tease misfired. The RL Og is descended from those Belgians! My 'tribe' was mentioned by Julius Caesar in his Gallic War.

Og

Yeah - He says they were the bravest warriors. Must be something to do with trade barriers.

 

[oggbashan]

Yeah - He says they were the bravest warriors. Must be something to do with trade barriers.

No. We beat up 'his' legions while himself was away.

When Caesar returned he beat us. We had hangovers from the victory celebration with Belgian beer. We had to go visit our cousins in England.

The only reason he wrote about us so flatteringly is that we made him look good - by suggesting legions are useless without an inspired leader like himself. We also gave him the excuse to invade England.

Og

 

[Boxlicker101]

Good to see you back on the boards! Cue for a Fred Astaire moment?

The game is to tease Og that Druids are really Irish and French - which is true.

Can you tell him that that the middle of Thomas Hardy's Wessex country was populated by Belgians before Julius C arrrived?

Was Julius C. ever in Wessex Country? I thought he went to Rome right after conquering Gaul.

Here is some research I did:
Belgae
Encyclopædia Britannica Article

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any of the inhabitants of Gaul north of the Sequana and Matrona (Seine and Marne) rivers. The term was apparently first applied by Julius Caesar. Evidence suggests that the Romans penetrated into those areas about 150 BC.

The Belgae of Gaul formed a coalition against Caesar after his first Gallic campaign but were subdued the following year (57 BC). One northern tribe, the Eburones, revolted in 53 and slaughtered 15 Roman cohorts; in revenge they were virtually exterminated, and new tribes crossed the Rhine River to replace them.

During the first half of the 1st century BC, Belgae from the Marne district had crossed to Britain and had formed the kingdom that in 55 BC was ruled by Cassivellaunus (q.v.). After further Gallic victories (54–51 BC) by Caesar, other settlers took refuge across the Channel, and Belgic culture spread to most of lowland Britain. The three most important Belgic kingdoms, identified by their coinage, were centred at Colchester, St. Albans, and Silchester. The chief Belgic contribution to southern Britain was the introduction of the heavy plow, which was used to clear many lands previously untillable.

And here is some more:

Druid
Encyclopædia Britannica Article

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(Celtic: “Knowing [or Finding] the Oak Tree”), member of the learned class among the ancient Celts. They seem to have frequented oak forests and acted as priests, teachers, and judges. The earliest known records of the Druids come from the 3rd century BC.

According to Julius Caesar, who is the principal source of information about the Druids, there were two groups of men in Gaul that were held in honour, the Druids and the noblemen (equites). Caesar related that the Druids took charge of public and private sacrifices, and many young men went to them for instruction. They judged all public and private quarrels and decreed penalties. If anyone disobeyed their decree, he was barred from sacrifice, which was considered the gravest of punishments. One Druid was made the chief; upon his death, another was appointed. If, however, several were equal in merit, the Druids voted, although they sometimes resorted to armed violence. Once a year the Druids assembled at a sacred place in the territory of the Carnutes, which was believed to be the centre of all Gaul, and all legal disputes were there submitted to the judgment of the Druids.

Caesar also recorded that the Druids abstained from warfare and paid no tribute. Attracted by those privileges, many joined the order voluntarily or were sent by their families. They studied ancient verse, natural philosophy, astronomy, and the lore of the gods, some spending as much as 20 years in training. The Druids' principal doctrine was that the soul was immortal and passed at death from one person into another.

The Druids offered human sacrifices for those who were gravely sick or in danger of death in battle. Huge wickerwork images were filled with living men and then burned; although the Druids preferred to sacrifice criminals, they would choose innocent victims if necessary.

Caesar is the chief authority, but he may have received some of his facts from the Stoic philosopher Poseidonius, whose account is often confirmed by early medieval Irish sagas. Caesar's description of the annual assembly of the Druids and their election of an arch-Druid is also confirmed by an Irish saga.

In the early period, Druidic rites were held in clearings in the forest. Sacred buildings were used only later under Roman influence. The Druids were suppressed in Gaul by the Romans under Tiberius (reigned AD 14–37) and probably in Britain a little later. In Ireland they lost their priestly functions after the coming of Christianity and survived as poets, historians, and judges (filid, senchaidi, and brithemain). Many scholars believe that the Hindu Brahman in the East and the Celtic Druid in the West were lateral survivals of an ancient Indo-European priesthood.

 

[elfin_odalisque]

Tease misfired. The RL Og is descended from those Belgians! My 'tribe' was mentioned by Julius Caesar in his Gallic War.

Og

I know! He said that the Belgians were the worthiest warriors he found.

Must have been a bit of backsliding in a couple of millenia.

 

[cloudy]

I would - except that I am rather busy on Walpurgis Night. It is my birthday. I was born after dark (of course) in a place very significant for Druids. I was covered with more hair than I have now and in a caul. Therefore I can't drown and I am very popular with witches.

Watch out for flying Ogs on 30th April.

Og

PS: My youngest daughter was born on Halloween. It's no surprise that we have a lot in common.

My daughter's birthday is Halloween, too!

I'll never forget it....all the nurses had those little cloth masks that cover their mouths and noses, and they had all drawn jack o'lantern-type mouths on their masks, with teeth, etc. It was almost surreal.

 

[oggbashan]

I hope that everyone is writing and editing their Halloween entries.

The competitions are ?enhanced by the AH's input even if we don't win everytime.

Of course one of us has to win the coveted Last Place (TM) Competition. You have to be an AH member to enter.

Og

 

[dreampilot79]

og.. I'm writing.. and no editor besides myself.. so last place shall be mine.. AGAIN!

 

[ABSTRUSE]

My story is coming along nicely....Abs happy...ugh.

 

[CrimsonMaiden]

I'm working on the revisions of mine.

 

[English Lady]

Nothing written on either of my ideas yet, though i'm hoping to start "Pigtails and pumpkins" tonight

 

[rgraham666]

Mine's finished. Except for a little polishing.

The hard part is keeping the feedback whore in me from submitting it before Oct. 1 just for some feedback.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Mine is done and I am just biding my time before submitting it. I will probably do this on Saturday to make sure it doesn't get posted too early. It is an unusual story for me and I hope I don't disappoint my regular readers who are used to nice, affectionate sex in my stories.

 

[elfin_odalisque]

Got to page 36 (Word) and suddenly realizes I need some emergency editing.

They're having a lovely time by the lake but. . .