We used to celebrate Hallowe'en 30 odd years ago when I was a Girl Guide in Sussex - one of the whimsily named "patrol activities" . Frankly, although I relished the "Devil's on Horseback" (A prune wrapped in a sliver of bacon with a cocktail stick thru it - Parkin was a week later for Bonfire night) I was none-impressed with the apple bobbing. .. as it meant a washing up bowl full of floating apples, contortions to pick them up with your teeth and, inevitably, lots of other people's snorty snot floating in the water. Character forming though I suppose! BTW (and not wishing to add or detract) (?) Professor Brian Bates, Professor of Pyschology @ Brighton University, Professor of (award-winning) Shamanic Consciousness studies @ University of Sussex, senior advisor to the Ford Foundation on global indigenous people's wisdom (the preserving of), co-author of the "Human Face" with John Cleese, etc etc his cult classic "The Way of Wyrd" based on preserved Anglo-Saxon spiritual teachings - 1,000 year old Wizard's spell book "The Lacnunga" at the British Library - is being reissued today (Hallowe'en) and he's interviewed on www.bbc.co.uk/england/southerncounties on 7 November at 8am GMT (audio streaming) Blessings Be
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