The party is only hours away, but I have to admit that while I was putting my bathroom together, I had a great idea for a wonderful Halloween bathroom setup. Put crime scene tape around the door and when people enter and turn on the light, it's a black light. There would be splatters, blood handprints, and other clues to show the kind of crime and how it went down. I just love that idea. Wish I had thought of it sooner! Well, we have the party pretty much all set up now and I'm chilling out before the next group of people come to help with more prep. I finally get to put my feet up for a few minutes. I can't wait to photograph and film it! Weather is perfect and my tree even dropped leaves in a wind storm and I threw them around for a crunch pathway.
(funeral memento - above - with woven hair of the dead included) Giving up our dead is never an easy task and it doesn't matter what region of the world or what era you grew up in, it's full of rituals and also many superstitions. Let's have a look at how we have handled death - (cemetery bell system - above) During the cholera epidemic in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, people feared being buried when they weren't completely dead. Many reported digging up graves of loved ones to find signs they fought inside the coffin to get out. As this would nearly be an impossibility with the weight of the earth on the coffin and lack of oxygen, the rumors did start hysteria. Patents were put out for these bells that would allow the newly awakened buried person to pull a string, ring a bell above ground that the groundskeeper could hear. Imagine how freaking chilling that would be to actually hear one go off? I had an idea for a zombie story about that but never got aroun...
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