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Happy Samhain

SmokeAndMirrors said:
There are lots of pagans in the US. Probably a couple million just in the usual Wicca-esque religions, and then a bunch more from traditional Carribean or African practices, and a bunch of random unaffiliated people in everything from recon religions to eclectic practices to atheist pagans. My home city is known as "Paganistan," there's so many of them. It's also pretty huge in NOLA, NYC, and some other places. There's also lots of names for Halloween in America. Samhain, part of Dia De Los Muertos, etc.

I wouldn't call myself pagan, but I've always liked those more sort of active dead-people-day traditions. Perhaps because I have a lot of dead. And I come from a family where dead people stuff is a thing we do (throw all the pans out the window!). But, it's more interesting and involving to me than just candy and sexy nurse outfits.
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My grandma actually passed in the wee morning hours of Nov 1, so Samhain is kind of bittersweet for me, as it is kind of the concentrated day in which I remember my grandma and others who have passed.

I usually light one of those ever-burning tall candles outside on our front steps in memory of her (after the trick or treaters are gone).
 
pillars said:
What is it that you think you see?
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Hmmmm...thought I knew but I'm not sure yet...maybe I was wrong...still trying to determine...
 
Elvira said:
Hmmmm...thought I knew but I'm not sure yet...maybe I was wrong...still trying to determine...
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See what happens when you jump to conclusions?
 
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