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With the end of my sub coming up in two weeks, I thought I would do one last big feature and then a smaller one for my birthday/ our anniversary.

So I did some wandering and found some pretty great Halloween art to feature. So to get into the Halloween Spirit a bit I thought I would share a few with you and let you all pick your favorites too...

I also am including a link to my husbands newest endeavor and a few of the works from that. He is doing some art therapy and it is indeed working wonders for him.  You can find Max's Challenge in his journal nitchwarmer.deviantart.com/jou… and some of the creative works of his mind.




Challenge Max's Creative Ability


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Halloween Madness


Halloween comes once a year and everyone that celebrates it does so in their own way... Be sure to scroll down and check out the Halloween art

According to Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Pag…

Halloween has origins in the ancient Gaelic festival known as Samhain (pronounced sow-in or sau-an), which is dervied from Old Irish and means roughly "summer's end". A similar festival was held by the ancient Britons and is known as Calan Gaeaf (pronounced kalan-geyf). The festival of Samhain celebrates the end of the "lighter half" of the year and beginning of the "darker half", and is sometimes regarded as the "Celtic New Year".

The celebration has some elements of a festival of the dead. The ancient Gaels believed that the border between this world and the Otherworld became thin on Samhain, allowing spirits (both harmless and harmful) to pass through. The family's ancestors were honoured and invited home whilst harmful spirits were warded off. It is believed that the need to ward off harmful spirits led to the wearing of costumes and masks. Their purpose was to disguise oneself as a harmful spirit and thus avoid harm. In Scotland the spirits were impersonated by young men dressed in white with masked, veiled or blackened faces.

Samhain was also a time to take stock of food supplies and slaughter livestock for winter stores. Bonfires played a large part in the festivities. All other fires were doused and each home lit their hearth from the bonfire. The bones of slaughtered livestock were cast into its flames. Sometimes two bonfires would be built side-by-side, and people and their livestock would walk between them as a cleansing ritual.

Another common practice was divination, which often involved the use of food and drink.

The term Halloween, originally spelled Hallowe’en, is shortened from All Hallows' Even – e'en is a shortening of even, which is a shortening of evening. This is ultimately dervied from the Old English Eallra Hālgena ǣfen. It is now known as All Saints' Day.

A time of pagan festivities, Popes Gregory III (731–741) and Gregory IV (827–844) tried to supplant it with the Christian holiday (All Saints' Day) by moving it from May 13 to November 1.

In the 800s, the Church measured the day as starting at sunset, in accordance with the Florentine calendar. Although All Saints' Day is now considered to occur one day after Halloween, the two holidays were once celebrated on the same day.

There is indeed a plethora of information to be found across the web on the significance of the holiday as well as the different celebrations.

Now on with the Halloween features...


The Pumpkin King by Kabuchan :thumb141301016: :thumb141296826:
:thumb141283794: Sexy Witch by Black--Sh33p by SIDEBOARD Dirty broom witch by opcrom
Zombie Hunter by Dendory

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Thank you so so much!!!:love: