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From: Tomás Ó Cárthaigh tomasocarthaigh at yahoo.com
 Subject: Samhain... Happy Halloween

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.

Below are some links to stories, poems and more stuff on the season...

LOWLANDS CRYPT

The Lowlands Listserve have a collection of spooky stories which will
entertain and scare the readers...
http://lowlands-l.net/crypt/<http://http//lowlands-l.net/crypt/>

Samhain - A Haiku
- Tomás Ó Cárthaigh

For one night only!
Not a shop sale, but the dead
Visit the living.

"Samhain Upon Us"
results for *“samhain”*
 [image: Thumbnail] <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBIy_WxwBmE>
Halloween Poem: "Samhain Upon Us" - Celtic Pagan New
Year<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBIy_WxwBmE>
to <http://www.youtube.com/user/tomasocarthaigh>

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.

For an hour they walk among us
Forefathers, who now are dead
The gates the otherworld closed
Are for an hour open instead
Some look upon their families
To show that for them they still care
But there are other spirits free
With worse intent, on the loose there!

A spooky night it is to come
Start and end of the Celtic Year
Masks worn confusing evil spirits
Games played, a time of good cheer
Dont fear the dead: only an hour
For which it is them they are free
The dead, them they will not harm you
Only the living can, like me!!!
Boooo!!!!

*Ghost Stories from North Longford
- Tomás Ó Cárthaigh
www.writingsinrhyme.com
*  The Hungry Grass<http://writingsinrhyme.com/North_Longford.php?The_Hungry_Grass>
 Old
Clonbroney <http://writingsinrhyme.com/North_Longford.php?Old_Clonbroney>
 Sitting
There Saying Nothing<http://writingsinrhyme.com/North_Longford.php?Sitting_There_Saying_Nothing>
 Rattling
Buckets Cant Be
Seen<http://writingsinrhyme.com/North_Longford.php?Rattling_Buckets_Cant_Be_Seen>
 Dead
Now and their Beliefs With
Them<http://writingsinrhyme.com/North_Longford.php?Dead_Now_and_their_Beliefs_With_Them>
 Dead
Souls And Black
Dogs<http://writingsinrhyme.com/North_Longford.php?Dead_Souls_And_Black_Dogs>

*"a person with a good book is never alone... a writer until they've
written one is never at peace" *
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