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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"> </font></p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color:#00681c">Tomás Ó Cárthaigh</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:tomasocarthaigh@yahoo.com">tomasocarthaigh@yahoo.com</a></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI">Samhain... Happy Halloween</span><br><br><font size="5"><span style="font-family:bookman old style,new york,times,serif">The
feast of Halloween is upon us, and let us celebrate the little pagan
festival that the Irish gave to the Americans who made it into a global
carnival.</span><br style="font-family:bookman old style,new york,times,serif"><br style="font-family:bookman old style,new york,times,serif"><span style="font-family:bookman old style,new york,times,serif">Below are some links to stories, poems and more stuff on the season...</span></font><br>
<br><span style="font-weight:bold">LOWLANDS CRYPT</span><br><br>The Lowlands Listserve have a collection of spooky stories which will entertain and scare the readers...<a href="http://http//lowlands-l.net/crypt/" target="_blank"> http://lowlands-l.net/crypt/</a><br>
<br style="font-weight:bold"><span style="font-weight:bold">Samhain - A
Haiku</span><br>- Tomás Ó Cárthaigh<br><br><span style="font-style:italic">For one night only</span>!<br style="font-style:italic"><span style="font-style:italic">Not a shop sale, but the dead</span><br style="font-style:italic">
<span style="font-style:italic">Visit the living.</span><br><br><span style="font-weight:bold">"Samhain Upon Us"</span><br> results for <b>“samhain”</b>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBIy_WxwBmE" target="_blank"><span><span><img style="width:343px;min-height:257px" src="http://i2.ytimg.com/vi/qBIy_WxwBmE/default.jpg" alt="Thumbnail" title="Halloween Poem: "Samhain Upon Us" - Celtic Pagan New Year"></span></span><span></span></a>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBIy_WxwBmE" target="_blank"><span dir="ltr">Halloween Poem: "Samhain Upon Us" - Celtic Pagan New Year</span></a>
<span dir="ltr"><a title="Play video" href="http://www.youtube.com/user/tomasocarthaigh" target="_blank">to</a></span><br><br>Halloween, or Samhain, was the Celtic New Year before the advent of
Christianity in Ireland. For an hour the gates of the Otherworld opened
and thosse dead could once more live among the living, look in on
family, or settle old scores with enemies. Masks were worn to confuse
evil spirits, and the tradition spread to the New World and around the
globe with the Irish, Scots and Manx diasporas. Stories of spirits, the
bean sidh - banshee, the púca - pooka and other creatures of the
otherword contunie to scare and entertain to this present day.<br><br><span style="font-style:italic">For an hour they walk among us</span><br style="font-style:italic"><span style="font-style:italic">Forefathers, who now are dead</span><br style="font-style:italic">
<span style="font-style:italic">The gates the otherworld closed</span><br style="font-style:italic"><span style="font-style:italic">Are for an hour open instead</span><br style="font-style:italic"><span style="font-style:italic">Some look upon their families</span><br style="font-style:italic">
<span style="font-style:italic">To show that for them they still care</span><br style="font-style:italic"><span style="font-style:italic">But there are other spirits free</span><br style="font-style:italic"><span style="font-style:italic">With worse intent, on the loose there!</span><br style="font-style:italic">
<br style="font-style:italic"><span style="font-style:italic">A spooky night it is to come</span><br style="font-style:italic"><span style="font-style:italic">Start and end of the Celtic Year</span><br style="font-style:italic">
<span style="font-style:italic">Masks worn confusing evil spirits</span><br style="font-style:italic"><span style="font-style:italic">Games played, a time of good cheer</span><br style="font-style:italic"><span style="font-style:italic">Dont fear the dead: only an hour</span><br style="font-style:italic">
<span style="font-style:italic">For which it is them they are free</span><br style="font-style:italic"><span style="font-style:italic">The dead, them they will not harm you</span><br style="font-style:italic"><span style="font-style:italic">Only the living can, like me!!!</span><br>
Boooo!!!!<br><br><table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#CCCCCC"><h5><strong>Ghost Stories from North
Longford<br>- Tomás Ó Cárthaigh<br><a href="http://www.writingsinrhyme.com/" target="_blank">www.writingsinrhyme.com</a><br></strong></h5></td>
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<td><h5><a href="http://writingsinrhyme.com/North_Longford.php?The_Hungry_Grass" target="_blank">The Hungry Grass</a></h5></td>
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<td><h5><a href="http://writingsinrhyme.com/North_Longford.php?Old_Clonbroney" target="_blank">Old Clonbroney</a></h5></td>
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<td><h5><a href="http://writingsinrhyme.com/North_Longford.php?Sitting_There_Saying_Nothing" target="_blank">Sitting There Saying Nothing</a></h5></td>
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<td><h5><a href="http://writingsinrhyme.com/North_Longford.php?Rattling_Buckets_Cant_Be_Seen" target="_blank">Rattling Buckets Cant Be Seen</a></h5></td>
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<td><h5><a href="http://writingsinrhyme.com/North_Longford.php?Dead_Now_and_their_Beliefs_With_Them" target="_blank">Dead Now and their Beliefs With Them</a></h5></td>
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<td><h5><a href="http://writingsinrhyme.com/North_Longford.php?Dead_Souls_And_Black_Dogs" target="_blank">Dead Souls And Black Dogs</a></h5></td></tr></tbody></table><br><p><strong><font color="#668f5a">"a person with a good book is never alone... a writer until they've written one is never at peace"</font> </strong></p>
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