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Isabelle's Tails

TAG!

I was tagged by Suzy Q, Gracie & Hairy H. Parker Esq.!

In this game of tag each player starts with seven random facts about themselves. Dogs who are tagged need to post in their diary the rules and their 7 random facts. Then choose 7 pups to tag and list their names. Then let them know by pmail or a rosette that they have been tagged and to read your diary for instructions on how to play.

Have Fun!

My 7 facts:

1. I love ice cream!
2. My favorite place is the park!
3. I like riding in the car!
4. I am not scared of fireworks or thunderstorms!
5. My favorite thing to do is kissing my Daddy!
6. I am not so sure about my new sister Wednesday, I stay clear of her BOL!
7. I really don't like having my nails trimmed!

These are the pups I am tagging:


♥ Sissy
♥ Eva
♥ Maggie
♥ Morgan
♥ Sweetie
♥ Sunny
♥ Kayla

Traditions Of Halloween

Halloween is an annual celebration and this event is fraught with traditions from around the world. The basic traditions associated with Halloween are as follows :

JACK'O LANTERN :

These are hollowed out pumpkins with a face cut into one side. People once carved out beets, potatoes and turnips to use as lanterns on Halloween. Nowadays we carve out pumpkins. According to an Irish legend, jack-o-lanterns were named for a man named Jack, who could not enter heaven because he was a miser. He could not enter hell either, because he had played jokes on the devil. So instead, he had to walk the earth with a lantern until Judgment Day. This was later brought into existence as one of the most popular halloween tradition.

Fire :

Fire is an integral part of the halloween tradition. Fire was very important to the Celts as it was to all early people. In the old days people lit bonfires, to scare away evil spirits. They believed that light had power over darkness. In some places they used to jump over the fire to bring good luck. Today, we light candles in pumpkin lanterns and then put them outside our homes to frighten away witches and ghosts.


Apple Bobbing (Duck-apple) :

The Roman festival for remembering the dead was also in October. During this time, the Romans remembered their goddess, Pomona. She was the goddess of the trees and fruits, and when the Romans came to Britain, they began to hold these two festivals on the same day as Samhain. Apple games probably became associated with Halloween because of this.


Dressing up :

The tradition of dressing in costume for Halloween has both European and Celtic roots. On Halloween, when it was believed that ghosts came back to the earthly world, people thought that they would encounter ghosts if they left their homes. To avoid being recognized by these ghosts, people would wear masks when they left their homes after dark so that the ghosts would mistake them for fellow spirits.

To keep ghosts away from their houses on Halloween, people would place bowls of food outside their homes to appease the ghosts and prevent them from attempting to enter. Halloween costumes is by far the most important and the most interesting customs of halloween.


Trick or Treat :

Halloween was a time for making mischief - many parts of England still recognise Halloween as Mischief Night - when children would knock on doors demanding a treat (Trick or Treat) and people would disguise themselves as witches, ghosts, kelpies and spunkies, in order to obtain food and money from nervous householders. Till date on the halloween day children disguise themselves and go knocking from door to door shouting "Trick or Treat". The people usually entertain children by handing out candies to them.

I've Been Tagged!