Trick or treat around the Maypole!

Evil spirits beware! People getting nekkid!

Yeah, that time of year again.
The time we celebrate hallowe'en! Yay!

Wait, we're in the southern hemisphere.  Why are celebrating halloween now?
I mean, shouldn't this be our time of fertility and celebration?

Makes little sense to me that we follow blindly in the footsteps of our Northern Hemisphere forebears. But lets not get bogged down in the where's and whyfor's of all that.

Main purpose here? To be lazy and make a blog from copypasting a wee conversation I had on the issue. Got us on to the topic of the Wiccan... whatever it is.

The Beast Inside

'Who knows what evil lurks inside the hearts of men?'

Had an interesting Monday night.  A conversation with a friend led me to thinking about the darker side of the mind, and how we all handle that particular side of ourselves.

What do I mean about the darker side of the mind?  I guess it's all those thoughts and impulses that we somehow know we shouldn't have. Whether we have an inner moral code which is in opposition to these thoughts, or because society dictates that 'those thoughts' are 'bad', depends on the person. At root, it's those darker, more sinister thoughts that the majority of us will (almost) never act upon. Doesn't stop us having them, of course.

Dracula: Dead and Buried?

Pretty sure this guy doesn't glitter...

If I were Dracula (and I mean, the original Dracula, Bram Stoker stylee), I'd be turning over in my coffin, unable to get a good days sleep.  Why? Cos there are unscrupulous bastards out there, perverting the real image of me and my kind (again, if I were Dracula, that is.  I'm not a vampire. Really)