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Living Room / Re: Hallow-e'en
« on: October 19, 2007, 11:30 AM »
it is celebrated in Ireland ...
we used to light bonfires on the local green area -
not very environmentally friendly ones with tyres etc. but hey it was the 70's
we didnt do the door to door thing
but played great games at home -
- try get coins from the bottom of a basin filled with water with your hands behind your back was my favourite :)
- then apples would get tied hanging to a crossline:
- blindfolded & again with hands behind your back you'd try get a bite from the apple.. great debates about whether using your shoulders allowed or not-tomos (October 19, 2007, 10:20 AM)
Hey, Tomos, I didn't realise you were Irish!
I remember all those games too, and back in the 1960's, listening to ghost stories in a farmhouse lit by a Tilley lamp.
As an old storyteller once told me, "It was the electric light killed the ghosts."
Well, that and the other boyos who were abroad by night in the North during the '70's!