Dancing Skeletons Tee Shirt
Cool tshirt dor halloween. A pair of dancing skeletons.
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Saturday, September 19, 2009
Thursday, September 17, 2009
A Devilish Tie Little Red Devil
A Devilish Tie Little Red Devil
Be a devil this halloween and make this tie part of your trick or treat costume.
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Be a devil this halloween and make this tie part of your trick or treat costume.
We have more ties like this to choose from at our online store Justbyjulie
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Monday, September 14, 2009
Halloween Presents
Halloween is party time.
Trick or treating is a tradition at Halloween. People dress up in fancy costumes and parade around the neghbourhood door to door asking for treats. It is also the time when people have fancy dress parties.
At Justbyjulie we have created some Halloween gift ideas from key rings to tee shirts to celebrate this occasion.
This video shows a selection of our products we hope you enjoy it.
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Trick or treating is a tradition at Halloween. People dress up in fancy costumes and parade around the neghbourhood door to door asking for treats. It is also the time when people have fancy dress parties.
At Justbyjulie we have created some Halloween gift ideas from key rings to tee shirts to celebrate this occasion.
This video shows a selection of our products we hope you enjoy it.
Justbyjulie.com
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Jack O'Lantern - Pumpkins
Pumpkins are commonly carved into decorative lanterns called jack-o'-lanterns for the Halloween season in North America. Throughout Britain and Ireland, there is a long tradition of carving lanterns from vegetables, particularly the turnip, mangelwurzel, or swede. Not until 1837, however, does jack-o'-lantern appear as a term for a carved vegetable lantern, and the carved lantern does not become associated specifically with Halloween until 1866. Significantly, both occurred not in Britain or Ireland—but in North America.
Although every modern chronicle of the holiday repeats the claim that vegetable lanterns were a time-honored component of Halloween celebrations in the British Isles, none gives any primary documentation. In fact, none of the major nineteenth-century chronicles of British holidays and folk customs make any mention whatsoever of carved lanterns in connection with Halloween. Neither do any of the standard works of the early twentieth century. In the United States, the carved pumpkin was first associated with the harvest season in general, long before it became an emblem of Halloween.
Justbyjulie has created some fun Halloween gifts using an image of a Jack O'Lantern for you to enjoy.
Here are a few of them to see the full range please visit our online store Justbyjulie.
Although every modern chronicle of the holiday repeats the claim that vegetable lanterns were a time-honored component of Halloween celebrations in the British Isles, none gives any primary documentation. In fact, none of the major nineteenth-century chronicles of British holidays and folk customs make any mention whatsoever of carved lanterns in connection with Halloween. Neither do any of the standard works of the early twentieth century. In the United States, the carved pumpkin was first associated with the harvest season in general, long before it became an emblem of Halloween.
Justbyjulie has created some fun Halloween gifts using an image of a Jack O'Lantern for you to enjoy.
Here are a few of them to see the full range please visit our online store Justbyjulie.
Monday, September 7, 2009
Trick Or Treating
The practice of dressing up in costumes and begging door to door for treats on holidays dates back to the Middle Ages. Trick-or-treating resembles the late medieval practice of souling, when poor folk would go door to door on Hallowmas (November 1), receiving food in return for prayers for the dead on All Souls Day (November 2). It originated in Ireland and Britain, although similar practices for the souls of the dead were found as far south as Italy. Shakespeare mentions the practice in his comedy The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1593), when Speed accuses his master of "puling [whimpering or whining] like a beggar at Hallowmas."
However, there is no evidence that souling was ever practiced in North America, where trick-or-treating may have developed independent of any Irish or British antecedent. The custom of wearing costumes and masks at Halloween goes back to Celtic traditions of attempting to copy the evil spirits or placate them, In Scotland for instance where the dead were impersonated by young men with masked, veiled or blackened faces, dressed in white.
At Justbyjulie we are celebrating Halloween by designing some halloween gifts for you. Below is an example of one of the gifts we have created. To see our full range then please visit our online store at Justbyjulie
However, there is no evidence that souling was ever practiced in North America, where trick-or-treating may have developed independent of any Irish or British antecedent. The custom of wearing costumes and masks at Halloween goes back to Celtic traditions of attempting to copy the evil spirits or placate them, In Scotland for instance where the dead were impersonated by young men with masked, veiled or blackened faces, dressed in white.
At Justbyjulie we are celebrating Halloween by designing some halloween gifts for you. Below is an example of one of the gifts we have created. To see our full range then please visit our online store at Justbyjulie
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Folklore Surrounding The Grim Reaper
Ancient Greece found death to be inevitable, and therefore he is not represented as purely evil.
He is often portrayed as a bearded and winged man, but has also been portrayed as a young boy. Death, is the counterpart of life; death being represented as male, and life as female.
He is the twin brother of Hypnos, the god of sleep. He is typically shown with his brother, and is represented as being just and gentle. His job is to escort the deceased to the underworld Hades. He then hands the dead over to Charon (who by some accounts looks like the modern western interpretation of the Grim Reaper, having a skeletal body and black cloak), who mans the boat which carries them over the river Styx, which separates the land of the living from the land of the dead.
It was believed that if the ferryman did not receive some sort of payment, the soul would not be delivered to the underworld, and left by the riverside for eternity.
Lithuanians named Death Giltinė, deriving from word "gelti" (to sting). Giltinė was viewed as an old ugly woman with long blue nose and deadly poisonous tongue. The legend tells that Giltinė was young, pretty and communicative until she was trapped in a coffin for seven years. The goddess of Death was a sister of the goddess of Life and Destiny, Laima, symbolising the relationship between beginning and end. Later they adopted the classic Grim Reaper with a scythe and black robe.
Now halloween is the classic time of the year to see the grim reaper and we have celebrated this fact at Justbyjulie by creating some halloween products for you to enjoy.
Listed below is one example of our products. To see the full range please visit our online store at Justbyjulie.
He is often portrayed as a bearded and winged man, but has also been portrayed as a young boy. Death, is the counterpart of life; death being represented as male, and life as female.
He is the twin brother of Hypnos, the god of sleep. He is typically shown with his brother, and is represented as being just and gentle. His job is to escort the deceased to the underworld Hades. He then hands the dead over to Charon (who by some accounts looks like the modern western interpretation of the Grim Reaper, having a skeletal body and black cloak), who mans the boat which carries them over the river Styx, which separates the land of the living from the land of the dead.
It was believed that if the ferryman did not receive some sort of payment, the soul would not be delivered to the underworld, and left by the riverside for eternity.
Lithuanians named Death Giltinė, deriving from word "gelti" (to sting). Giltinė was viewed as an old ugly woman with long blue nose and deadly poisonous tongue. The legend tells that Giltinė was young, pretty and communicative until she was trapped in a coffin for seven years. The goddess of Death was a sister of the goddess of Life and Destiny, Laima, symbolising the relationship between beginning and end. Later they adopted the classic Grim Reaper with a scythe and black robe.
Now halloween is the classic time of the year to see the grim reaper and we have celebrated this fact at Justbyjulie by creating some halloween products for you to enjoy.
Listed below is one example of our products. To see the full range please visit our online store at Justbyjulie.
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