Halloween

The Halloween Experience, this year, involved Sorcha and her friends applying the usual make up and outfits, followed by the devilish games. Imelda took the girls around the local area where the girls sang Halloween rhymes.  An offering of sweets was usually sufficient to stop them singing!  On arriving back to the farm, the girls were subjected to the "Walk through the Witches Wood". There were five distinctive scenes in the wood: the graveyard, spider alley, the haunted house, skeleton alley and finally, the witches house.

The walk was conducted with the minimum amount of light (candles, lanterns and green electric bulbs).  Three strategically audio cassette players continually played scary music, screams and moans.  Also a scary Grim Reaper (me) would appear at unexpected moments. Some of the displays had basic moving exhibits.  For example, the graveyard scene was bathed in an eerie green light, showing two grave stones, lanterns, shovels, cobwebs and spiders.  There were a variety of skulls and skeletons, both resting on the surface and half exposed. A tolling bell was periodically interrupted by screams, which ended with a scary voice rasping "that he was coming to get you".  At this point a skeleton was pulled out of its grave, using a thin fishing line and a pulley.  Needless to say, the effect produced the appropriate screams!

Afterwards, the girls posed at the various scenes.  They considered that the highlight was when the Grim Reaper appeared from behind a bush, tripped up and fell headlong into a puddle.  The young have no respect for aging Satanists!