Because August is a yowly time for cats, this may have prompted the speculation about witches on the prowl in the first place.
*thanks to the Old Farmer's Alamanc for this!
August 17, 2011
August 17th - Cat's Night
The term “Cat Nights” harks back to an obscure Irish legend concerning witches and the belief that a witch could turn herself into a cat eight times. But on the ninth time (August 17), she couldn’t regain her human form. How the date of August 17th got chosen is unknown. This bit of folklore is also where the saying, “a cat has nine lives" comes from.
Because August is a yowly time for cats, this may have prompted the speculation about witches on the prowl in the first place.
*thanks to the Old Farmer's Alamanc for this!
Because August is a yowly time for cats, this may have prompted the speculation about witches on the prowl in the first place.
*thanks to the Old Farmer's Alamanc for this!
August 13, 2011
Frightfest 2011
Yes boils and ghouls, it's that time again. Frightfest is back for 2011 with a new line up of fear-inducing feature films.
London's Empire Theatre is again your host for four days of some of the best of the independent horror genre. Hey, it's a long weekend here in the U.K. What else are you going to do?
August 12, 2011
Can You Feel It?
We're almost to the thirty day mark on the countdown.
With a few other like-minded souls otherwise known as Autumn Folk, I'm starting to feel the first faint, but familiar, stirrings of The Season. Autumn was always a stealthy Goddess, sending her messengers out in subtle ways. Glidinging in, soft-footed as a black cat. Leaving small signs here and there, if your soul is atuned to recognize them, that turn ones thoughts to that most welcomed time of the year; Autumn/Winter catalogues are appearing, local craft stores have started stocking a few Fall/ Halloween supplies. An ad in a newspaper yesterday from a hotel chain for a Halloween break.
Asters and prickly stemmed blackberries will soon make their appearance. The apple harvest begins and you can barely wait for that first slice of fresh baked Dorset apple cake!
It's out there........
With a few other like-minded souls otherwise known as Autumn Folk, I'm starting to feel the first faint, but familiar, stirrings of The Season. Autumn was always a stealthy Goddess, sending her messengers out in subtle ways. Glidinging in, soft-footed as a black cat. Leaving small signs here and there, if your soul is atuned to recognize them, that turn ones thoughts to that most welcomed time of the year; Autumn/Winter catalogues are appearing, local craft stores have started stocking a few Fall/ Halloween supplies. An ad in a newspaper yesterday from a hotel chain for a Halloween break.
Asters and prickly stemmed blackberries will soon make their appearance. The apple harvest begins and you can barely wait for that first slice of fresh baked Dorset apple cake!
It's out there........
August 5, 2011
Run For Your Lives!
"Frog on the Pumpkin: Although I would be one of the first to die": "this sounds like an awful lot of fun! Run For Your Lives - 5K run in Maryland this October. Here are the details. Escape From t..."
You have to get over to Frog Queen's blog and read about this charity run, zombie themed of course! Camping is available. And here I thought bears were all you needed to worry about.
August 4, 2011
Red Hot Comp @ ShellHawk's Nest
Many thanks to The Undertaker at Haunted Hot Sauce for spreading the love on this competition. Get on over to ShellHawk's Nest for a chance to win a bottle of Haunted Hot Sauce and a selection of 13 Gypsies Perfume.
Read the competition rules carefully and bring your zombie name with you! Yes, your zombie I.D. will be checked at the door.
Read the competition rules carefully and bring your zombie name with you! Yes, your zombie I.D. will be checked at the door.
August 3, 2011
Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights 2011
Damn! Why can't I live in Southern California? Or at least be in the general vicinity this Halloween. You can bet this attraction will be a sell-out!
Thanks again to the man who's always one step ahead of the rest of us, Johnny Thunder over at Midnite Spook Frolic for the heads up.
August 1, 2011
Lammas
I still remember posting for Lammas last August. Is just creeping old age, or is Time moving a damn sight faster that it used to?
Anyway, August 1st is Lammas Day and marks the beginning of the harvest. In old England, loaves of bread were baked from the first-ripened grain, consecrated in churches, and eaten.
Lammas is very old; it derives from the ancient English festival called the Gule of August, which marked the beginning of the harvest, traditionally August 1st. The early English church kept this pagan dedication of the first fruit but converted it to Christian usage.
- thanks to the Old Farmer's Almanac for this seasonal fact.
Anyway, August 1st is Lammas Day and marks the beginning of the harvest. In old England, loaves of bread were baked from the first-ripened grain, consecrated in churches, and eaten.
Lammas is very old; it derives from the ancient English festival called the Gule of August, which marked the beginning of the harvest, traditionally August 1st. The early English church kept this pagan dedication of the first fruit but converted it to Christian usage.
- thanks to the Old Farmer's Almanac for this seasonal fact.
Happy August!
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