Odds And Ends
1)If you go to a crossroads at Halloween and listen to the wind, you will learn all the
most important things that will befall you during the next twelve months.
2)"Just a little witch
on high
She'll tell you that
your love is nigh
Your fortune on Hallowe'en
when told
My secret will the witch unfold."
3)"Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble....
Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg, and howlet's wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble."
4)Easy Enchanted Punch
8 cups cranberry juice ( health and love )
6 cups apple cider ( love )
6 cinnamon sticks ( psychic powers )
6 orange slices ( luck )
1 liter ginger ale ( success )
1 tray of ice cubes
Pour cranberry juice and apple cider into a large bowl. Break the cinnamon sticks
in half. Put one cinnamon stick and 1 piece of orange in each cube holder. Fill an
ice cube tray with some of the cranberry-apple mixture. Freeze. Refrigerate remaining
punch mixture in bowl. Before serving, add ginger ale and ice cubes.
5)Pumpkin Punch Bowl
2 glow-in-the-dark sticks
1 large pumpkin
1 heat resistant punch bowl that will fit inside the pumpkin
Hollow out pumpkin, and carve a design on it. Place punch bowl inside pumpkin.
Right before the party begins, activate the glow-in-the-dark sticks per package
instructions and place between pumpkin shell and bowl. Add enchanted Witches'
brew.
6)"May every trick
That you try to-night
Foretell a future
Of true delight."
7)Potatoe Bugs
1 package shredded potatoe nuggets
6 pieces uncooked spaghetti, broken into thirds
1 carrot, cut into 1and half inch strips
Sour cream, black olives slices, ketchup and broccoli pieces
Preheat oven to 450F. Lightly grease baking sheets. Spread potato
nuggets on baking sheet. Bake 7 minutes. Loosen nuggets
from baking sheets.
Thread 3 potatoe nuggets onto spaghetti piece. Bake 5 minutes.
Carefully push carrot strips into sides of each nugget for legs. Using
sour cream to attach vegetables, decorate faces.
"I miss you most upon each Samhain
When the bounty turns to sheer
I wait until the veil is parted
At the ending of the year.
Sweet spirit, as you walk among us
At the tolling of this eve
I see your face beyond the sunset
I hear your voice upon the breeze.
In the glowing of the candle,
From the shadow on the wall
I watch for you in every moment
And hear your footsteps in the hall.
Can you sit and spen the evening
As the portal opens wide?
Ancestral dead, I pray, abide.
When you come I sence your presence
I put my hand out in the air
A moment, then, we stand united
Palm to palm while waiting there.
I miss you most upon each Samhain
When the boundary turns to sheer
We share these hours until the dawning
Then bid farewell until next year."
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