http://library.dedham-ma.gov/sites/default/files/wagon%20burning.pdf

Very, very nice.

Is everyone O.K.? I don’t see anything written in Beelzebub so I’m assuming, this time, it was a false alarm. Maybe next year those witches will get it right. Start preparing now! I’m praying for you.

For breakfast with your hashbrowns, here’s the beautiful Song for Ireland, sung by Mary Black, w/Irish scenery.

It is my understating that Halloween dates back well over 6 millenniums and dated to the ancient festival of fire “Samhain.” The Celts celebrated this day on November 1st. This was the Celtic New Year which marked the end of Summer and the final harvest of the season.

This Eve is believed to be so strong that it is the veil between the realms of the ether world. This sacred the veil which is so thin that some say that the ghosts and the dead come back into our world.

Note that this year we will have a full moon on November 2nd. It was time for the predictions of the Celtic Priests whom made predictions about the future and people found these prophecies important sources of comfort and direction during a long, dark, harsh winter. At this time as in the US, Costumes were worn, fortune telling was told as well as story telling. The hearth was extinguished early on this Eve and re-lit from the sacred bonfire to protect them during the coming winter.

The Romans had conquered most of Celtic territories in or about 48 A.D, but not without a good fight! Within the course of 400 or so years, two Roman festivals were combined Feralia into the Celtic celebration 1) a commemoration of the passing of the dead; and 2)a day to honor Pomona the Goddess of fruit and trees. The Pomona symbol is the apple, which is how bobbing for apples became incorporated into Samhain.

Christianity now had a strong hold in this area and in the 8th Century and this practice spread through Celtic lands and Pope Boniface IV designated November 1st as All Saints Day to honor all saints and martyrs. The Pope at this time was trying to replace the Celtic festivals with a related, but church sanctioned holiday. Go figure…..

Then about 1000 A.D. the church made November 2nd All Soul’s Day which was celebrated with big bonfires, parades, dressing in costumes as saints, angels, and devils…together these celebrations were called Hallow-mas.

As we all know Halloween has to Come to America as the Irish did. With the immigration the Europeans came over with their different costumes, beliefs and ethnic groups as well as the American Indian beliefs. American now has its own version of Halloween. Which includes play parties, apple bobbing,celebrating the harvests, neighbors sharing stories of the dead, fortune telling, dancing, singing, bonfires, etc.

With the invasion of the Irish in 1846, America was flooded with Irish immigrants fleeing from deadly potato plague. With this came the Irish-American tradition of dressing up in costumes and going house to house asking for food or money, hence where Trick or Treating comes from.

If you will read the influence that the Irish had on the south during the civil war or war between the states, you will certainly see why this group of seemingly gainsay people were welcomed with open arms.

What started as a serious festival celebrating the harvests and the dearly departed has since become largely a commercial holiday fostering corporate profits and goodwill.

http://jonathanturley.org/2009/10/30/pope-nixes-halloween/#more-16729

My idea was the town customs in East Dedham could surely be traced
to my ancestors. Wagons rolling on fire through town just sounds like a stunt the Quinn, Gaynor and Hayes families would’ve enjoyed.

“Cahersiveen, County Kerry, Ireland can justly boast that it was the only town in Ireland to rise against a mighty empire. All Ireland was to rise in rebellion on February 12, 1867, but at the last moment the Rising was called off. Messengers were sent on horseback throughout the country with their message of postponement. No messenger reached Cahersiveen, County Kerry, Ireland or the villages of Iveragh. The Kerrymen rose alone. They crossed to the gathering place at Ballycarberry Castle in Cahersiveen, County Kerry, Irealnd. At dawn on February 12th, the ill-equipped, but resolute band set out for Killarney, to try and alter a nation’s history. The small band of Kerrymen, heavily outnumbered, and with few weapons, fought gallantly, but was forced to retreat. In the wild caves by the Atlantic they hid until the ghostly Luggers [a type of small sailing vessel setting lugsails on two or more masts and perhaps lug topsails] came to bring them to America-and to freedom.”

I had always believed the world would end in 2012, but witches praying over commercial candy are stronger even than prophecy.

Adieu good people. I will see you on the other side!

[quote]

Town of Dedham [Massachusetts]
Town Bylaws: Chapter Thirteen- Police Regulations

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

(Adopted Nov. 16, 1959 59STM1)
(Reenacted April 8, 1996 96ATM33)
(Amended April 12, 2004 04ATM46)
(Amended April 11, 2005 05ATM34)
(Amended November 1, 2005 05STM10)

POLICE REGULATIONS

Section 26. Fires, Transport of Inflammable Materials on Public Ways Prohibited

No person shall set fire to or burn, or cause to be moved through any way or street of the Town, any waste material, paper, wood or any inflammable substance on any wagon, cart, buggy, push–cart or on any vehicle, with the intention of setting fire to or burning same on any way or street of the Town.

http://www.dedham-ma.gov/index.cfm?cdid=12111

This is no joke. The law is real. The reason? The town custom in East Dedham used to be to parade burning wagons through the streets on Halloween.

Why? Nobody knows.

wow..just wow

as my aunties would say…bless your heart

Home made grenade parties? What a great idea! You could sell tupperware containers for storing the necessary blood and bones at the same time.

October 29, 2009 10:52 PM
Jared Taylor
The Monitor
SAN JUAN — Federal authorities arrested a 38-year-old man on felony weapons charges at a house where investigators said he manufactured scores of grenades and performed occult ceremonies with human bones.

Ruben Ambrosio Fonseca Jr. had his initial appearance in U.S. District Court on Thursday after undercover agents posing as drug cartel members purchased 183 grenades from him that he allegedly manufactured at a San Juan house, law enforcement officials said.

Federal agents and the San Juan police SWAT team raided the property Wednesday morning, finding weapons, firearms and a blood-stained altar alongside human and animal bones in the backyard…..

http://www.themonitor.com/articles/san-32104-juan-remains.html

Only when jerk chicken blood is used in the ritual.

Some of us will be dewomans tomorrow.

My husband passed a church whose sign said: “Evil Awareness Party Oct. 31″ Are YOU aware today???

P.S. Did you ever notice that question marks turned upside down look like 6???

Happy Halloween to Everyone. Tomorrow we’ll all be demons.

BTW–Do demons give lawyers professional courtesy possessions?

“Much further out than inevitable
Halloween is thy game
Sky King is come
and Wilma’s done
Uncertain as it is uneven

Give us today hors d’œuvre’s in bed
As we forgive those who have dressed up against us
And need us not enter inflation
But our liver, onions, and potatoes.

For wine is a shingle, and a mower, and a story for your father.
Allright.”

Happy Halloween! Praise all o’ y’all!

That is precisely why each of the candies that I hand out are wrapped in my business card.

Have a boo-ntiful harvest with your lawyering cornucopia of legalize, fine print, and legalistic witch’s brew of tort claims.

I am amazed that Jesus spoke English. I may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer but did not Hey Suss speaka da form of Arabic like aramic (sp) nal need help))?

Now to the rest, if ya don’t wanna get shot stay home. Wait, most people are accidentally shot at home. Go out and just be careful. Stay away from anything south of the Red River.

Be careful not to commit any torts while toasting books by Billy Graham, Chuck Colson, Mother Teresa, and The Pope!

Get yer red-hots now!

“We are burning Satan’s bibles like the NIV, RSV, NKJV, TLB, NASB, ESV, NEV, NRSV, ASV, NWT, Good News for Modern Man, The Evidence Bible, The Message Bible, The Green Bible, ect. These are perversions of God’s Word the King James Bible.

“We will also be burning Satan’s music such as country , rap , rock , pop, heavy metal, western, soft and easy, southern gospel , contemporary Christian , jazz, soul, oldies but goldies, etc.

“We will also be burning Satan’s popular books written by heretics like Westcott & Hort , Bruce Metzger, Billy Graham , Rick Warren , Bill Hybels , John McArthur, James Dobson , Charles Swindoll , John Piper , Chuck Colson , Tony Evans, Oral Roberts, Jimmy Swagart , Mark Driskol, Franklin Graham , Bill Bright, Tim Lahaye, Paula White , T.D. Jakes, Benny Hinn , Joyce Myers , Brian McLaren , James White, Robert Schuller, Mother Teresa , The Pope , Rob Bell, Erwin McManus , Donald Miller, Shane Claiborne, Brennan Manning, William Young, Will Graham , and many more.

“We are not burning Bibles written in other languages that are based on the TR. We are not burning the Tyndale, Geneva or other translations that are based on the TR.

“We will be serving fried chicken, and all the sides.”

http://amazinggracebaptistchurchkjv.com/Download99.html

If the King James Bible was good enough for Jesus, it is good enough for me.