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 witches. Show all posts
Showing posts with label witches. Show all posts
Monday, September 14, 2009
Sunday, August 30, 2009
White Witches
In England, the term 'witch' was not used exclusively to describe malevolent magicians, but could also indicate cunning folk. There were a number of interchangeable terms for these practitioners, ‘white’, ‘good’, or ‘unbinding’ witches, blessers, wizards, sorcerers, however ‘cunning-man’ and ‘wise-man’ were the most frequent. While cunning-folk could command a lot of respect, public perceptions of them were often ambivalent and a little fearful, for many were deemed just as capable of harming as of healing. Throughout Europe many such healers and wise men and women were convicted of witchcraft many English 'witches' convicted of consorting with demons seem to have been cunning folk whose fairy familiars had been demonised many French devins-guerisseurs were accused of witchcraft and over half the accused witches in Hungary seem to have been healers.
Some of the healers and diviners historically accused of witchcraft have considered themselves mediators between the mundane and spiritual worlds, roughly equivalent to shamans. Such people described their contacts with fairies, spirits or the dead, often involving out-of-body experiences and travelling through the realms of an 'other-world'. Beliefs of this nature are implied in the folklore of much of Europe, and were explicitly described by accused witches in central and southern Europe. Repeated themes include participation in processions of the dead or large feasts, often presided over by a female divinity who teaches magic and gives prophecies; and participation in battles against evil spirits, 'vampires' or 'witches' to win fertility and prosperity for the community.
Now Halloween is a time, it is said, when whitches and ghouls come out to play. We have celebrated this fact at Justbyjulie by creating some products for you to enjoy.
Listed below are some of our items to see our full range then please visit our online store at Justbyjulie.
Some of the healers and diviners historically accused of witchcraft have considered themselves mediators between the mundane and spiritual worlds, roughly equivalent to shamans. Such people described their contacts with fairies, spirits or the dead, often involving out-of-body experiences and travelling through the realms of an 'other-world'. Beliefs of this nature are implied in the folklore of much of Europe, and were explicitly described by accused witches in central and southern Europe. Repeated themes include participation in processions of the dead or large feasts, often presided over by a female divinity who teaches magic and gives prophecies; and participation in battles against evil spirits, 'vampires' or 'witches' to win fertility and prosperity for the community.
Now Halloween is a time, it is said, when whitches and ghouls come out to play. We have celebrated this fact at Justbyjulie by creating some products for you to enjoy.
Listed below are some of our items to see our full range then please 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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