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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Showing posts with label ghosts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ghosts. Show all posts
Monday, September 14, 2009
Monday, August 31, 2009
Ghosts in Literature
The “classic” ghost story arose during the Victorian period, and included authors such as M. R. James, Sheridan Le Fanu, Violet Hunt, and Henry James. Classic ghost stories were influenced by the gothic fiction tradition, and contain elements of folklore and psychology. M. R. James summed up the essential elements of a ghost story as, “Malevolence and terror, the glare of evil faces, ‘the stony grin of unearthly malice', pursuing forms in darkness, and 'long-drawn, distant screams', are all in place, and so is a modicum of blood, shed with deliberation and carefully husbanded...”
Famous literary apparitions from this period are the ghosts of A Christmas Carol, in which Ebenezer Scrooge is helped to see the error of his ways by the ghost of his former colleague Jacob Marley, and the ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Yet to Come.
Oscar Wilde's comedy The Canterville Ghost has been adapted for film and television on several occasions. Henry James's The Turn of the Screw has also appeared in a number of adaptations, notably the film The Innocents and Benjamin Britten's opera The Turn of the Screw.
Now Halloween is a traditional time, it is said, when the ghosts rise and create havoc. Whether or not you believe this to be true our fascination with ghosts is always heightened at Halloween time.
To celebrate this fact we, at Justbyjulie, have created some ghostly gift ideas for you to enjoy. Below is a small example of our products to see the full range then visit our online store at Justbyjulie.
Famous literary apparitions from this period are the ghosts of A Christmas Carol, in which Ebenezer Scrooge is helped to see the error of his ways by the ghost of his former colleague Jacob Marley, and the ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Yet to Come.
Oscar Wilde's comedy The Canterville Ghost has been adapted for film and television on several occasions. Henry James's The Turn of the Screw has also appeared in a number of adaptations, notably the film The Innocents and Benjamin Britten's opera The Turn of the Screw.
Now Halloween is a traditional time, it is said, when the ghosts rise and create havoc. Whether or not you believe this to be true our fascination with ghosts is always heightened at Halloween time.
To celebrate this fact we, at Justbyjulie, have created some ghostly gift ideas for you to enjoy. Below is a small example of our products to see the full range then visit our online store at Justbyjulie.
Friday, August 28, 2009
History Of Halloween
Halloween has origins in the ancient Celtic festival known as Samhain.
The festival of Samhain is a celebration of the end of the harvest season in Gaelic culture, and is sometimes regarded as the "Celtic New Year". Traditionally, the festival was a time used by the ancient Celtic pagans to take stock of supplies and slaughter livestock for winter stores.
The ancient Celts believed that on October 31, now known as Halloween, the boundary between the living and the deceased dissolved, and the dead become dangerous for the living by causing problems such as sickness or damaged crops.
The festivals would frequently involve bonfires, into which the bones of slaughtered livestock were thrown. Costumes and masks being worn at Halloween goes back to the 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.
The images below show some Halloween gift ideas. I hope to talk about various aspects of Halloween, like witches, ghosts etc., over the next few weeks. If you want to see my full range of Halloween products then please visit my online store at Justbyjulie.com.
The festival of Samhain is a celebration of the end of the harvest season in Gaelic culture, and is sometimes regarded as the "Celtic New Year". Traditionally, the festival was a time used by the ancient Celtic pagans to take stock of supplies and slaughter livestock for winter stores.
The ancient Celts believed that on October 31, now known as Halloween, the boundary between the living and the deceased dissolved, and the dead become dangerous for the living by causing problems such as sickness or damaged crops.
The festivals would frequently involve bonfires, into which the bones of slaughtered livestock were thrown. Costumes and masks being worn at Halloween goes back to the 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.
The images below show some Halloween gift ideas. I hope to talk about various aspects of Halloween, like witches, ghosts etc., over the next few weeks. If you want to see my full range of Halloween products then please visit my online store at Justbyjulie.com.
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