Halloween

[ghanima{DM690}]

Just wondering what will everyone be for halloween...if you celebrate...Ill be a sexy snow white

[Veridical]

I'm gonna be a normal person. ;D

[Panther007]

I'll be the person scheduled to work on Halloween.

[fellintobed]

I have no idea yet! In years past I've done sexy costumes and 'regular' costumes. This year I'm rather out of ideas.

[juicysub]

i think imma be a can can girl!!

[Occam]

I'm going as a devil dressed up as an angle.

[Ravenshurst]

I am going to disguise Myself as...a normal person. no one will recognize Me!

[lucy]

What's Halloween?

[damyanti]

The word itself, "Halloween," actually has its origins in the Catholic Church. It comes from a contracted corruption of All Hallows Eve.

All Hallows Day, or All Saint's Day, November 1, is a Catholic day of observance in honor of saints. But, in the 5th century BC, in Celtic Ireland, summer officially ended on October 31. The holiday was called Samhain (sow-en), the Celtic New year. One story says that, on that day, the disembodied spirits of all those who had died throughout the preceeding year would come back in search of living bodies to possess for the next year. It was believed to be their only hope for the afterlife. The Celts believed all laws of space and time were suspended during this time, allowing the spirit world to intermingle with the living.

Naturally, the still-living did not want to be possessed. So on the night of October 31, villagers would extinguish the fires in their homes, to make them cold and undesirable. They would then dress up in all manner of ghoulish costumes and noisily paraded around the neighborhood, being as destructive as possible in order to frighten away spirits looking for bodies to possess.

The custom of Halloween was brought to America in the 1840's by Irish immigrants fleeing their country's potato famine. At that time, the favorite pranks in New England included tipping over outhouses and unhinging fence gates.

The custom of trick-or-treating is thought to have originated not with the Irish Celts, but with a ninth-century European custom called souling. On November 2, All Souls Day, early Christians would walk from village to village begging for "soul cakes," made out of square pieces of bread with currants. The more soul cakes the beggars would receive, the more prayers they would promise to say on behalf of the dead relatives of the donors. At the time, it was believed that the dead remained in limbo for a time after death, and that prayer, even by strangers, could expedite a soul's passage to heaven.

The Jack-o-lantern custom probably comes from Irish folklore. As the tale is told, a man named Jack, who was notorious as a drunkard and trickster, tricked Satan into climbing a tree. Jack then carved an image of a cross in the tree's trunk, trapping the devil up the tree. Jack made a deal with the devil that, if he would never tempt him again, he would promise to let him down the tree.

According to the folk tale, after Jack died, he was denied entrance to Heaven because of his evil ways, but he was also denied access to Hell because he had tricked the devil. Instead, the devil gave him a single ember to light his way through the frigid darkness. The ember was placed inside a hollowed-out turnip to keep it glowing longer.

The Irish used turnips as their "Jack's lanterns" originally. But when the immigrants came to America, they found that pumpkins were far more plentiful than turnips. So the Jack-O-Lantern in America was a hollowed-out pumpkin, lit with an ember.

Today - Halloween, or Hallowe’en, is a holiday celebrated on the night of October 31. Halloween activities include trick-or-treating (you go from house to house in costumes, asking for treats such as candy), ghost tours, bonfires, costume parties, visiting "haunted houses", carving Jack-o'-lanterns (a carved pumpkin), reading scary stories and watching horror movies.

[AdrianaAurora]

Yes, we celebrate. I always loved it as a child, and I insist upon it (purely for the benefit of my son, ) much to my Husbands chagrin. Though for some reason He stopped objecting as much lately, and it has nothing to with me parading around dressed in sexy, barely there costumes, absolutely nothing, LOL.
I am making Him dress as Thor this year - He loves the comic, has the physique to pull it off, and He has been promising it to me for awhile. Not sure what I will go as – maybe I will dress as a Domme! ROTFLMAO

[satisfied]

I'll be a Purple Fairy.

[shayna{L_D}]

well Halloween is my birthday *Smiles* so i think ill go as a sexy devil.. YEP!

[subserviant]

I think you should go dressed in your birthday suit hehe

[subserviant]

im going partying in a collar and cape with nothing on underneath

[canadapiratem]

I'll be going back to my old college and visiting my old friends, i don't know what i'll wear yet, i'll probably end up borrowing some costume stuff from my friends there.

[Bound to be]

This will be my first Halloween with Americans (I am a brit) so am looking forwards to a much bigger affair than usual. I am putting together a Crow outfit, but from nearer the end of the film where it is a little more ripped, tusseled and gaffa tape repaired.

Looking forwards to a good night.

[fairyjester]

I am dressing as a belly dancer. I started belly dancing this year so have been wanting belly dancing stuff so seems logical.

[X]

im gona wear a red jumpsuit with pointy ears. im gona carry a fork around too

[manda]

a sexy minnie mouse

[ghanima{DM690}]

well Halloween is my birthday *Smiles* so i think ill go as a sexy devil.. YEP!

Happy early birthday!

[thepast]

Moved to Gen Gossip.... And check out the 2 threads about Halloween in the NonErotic Pics area as well...

Happy Halloween!

[shayna{L_D}]

Happy early birthday!

woot thanks!!

[angelic.zest]

Going to Pa for Rocky Horror Picture and will be dressed up as a Sexy Dorothy and i have my little doggy basket *giggles and blushes softly*..

but i htink i will be a rather cold Dorothy since it will probably be cold this halloween

[shayna{L_D}]

delia ya gunna go as Angelica?

[Ozme52]

Be sure to post your Halloween costume pics in the picture thread. We revive it every year.

http://www.bdsmlibrary.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7135

[shayna{L_D}]

i think akin with being a sexy devil ill be a year older. : )