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01-02November is Dia de los Muertos. So yes we have skeletons.

Texasdaughter : Not my favorite - especially the one in Bear Branch that is "shooting the finger".

grinchy : Dont look.

Texasdaughter :
It's the witching hour and time to tell a tale. It's all part of the origins of Halloween before it became a commercial for candy. It's part of what the ancient Celts called Samhain around 2000 years ago. A festival to celebrate the end of harvest before the harsh winter. I time of transition both in season and in spirit. The Celts believed it was a window for the dead to walk the earth again for a short time. Both of loved ones past and. malevolent spirits who might harm the fathers harvest stores. They built bonfires out of wood and animal bones as burnt offerings. This is the actual origin of the word bonfire. It literally meant bone fire. Some would put on masks made of hides and ward away creeping ghouls and keep their vital harvest stores safe. Time passes and about the 8th Century the Roman Catholic Church was now in the Celtic lands. To persuade the locals to abandon their pagan festivities Pope Gregory III moved All Saints Day to November first. In its previous spot they made All Hallows' Eve to tempt the Celts to rebrand Samhain and leave their pagan celebration behind. It didn't take. Instead the two holiday became more of a mishmash of both.Fast forward to 1845 and the Irish Potato Famine. Irish and Scottish flooded the shores of the US and brought their traditions with them. Skeletons and Jack-o'-lanterns included. As an aside, the original jack-o'-lantern was made of turnips, beets, or potatoes. When the descendants of the Celts found themselves in these American lands they found pumpkins were plentiful and easier to procure. That and after a potato famine you value a potato quite differently. I got a bit off topic, back to the story. It wasn't until the 1950s that trick or treating really came into play. It was a part in a way of the original tradition but, it was adopted here commercially. A sort of non sequitur, but also look up Mary Emma Allison. She has an interesting role in Halloween as well. Día de los Muertos is very similar in it's creation and origin as Samhain. Anyhow, that's why there are skeletons and macabre displays. Death was always part of the mix.

Texasdaughter :
I feel like they are making fun of my body composition but i know its not personal so i try to move on

Texasdaughter : I am not a huge fan but some of the stuff people come up with, well, It is hilarious! They pose those skeletons and dress them. It is pretty impressive the thought they must put into it.

I literally pray over that house when I see " them" demonic creatures . They're not even cute.
Ignorance is bliss .

Texasdaughter :
My Brother in Law has a Halloween event at his place in New Boston, MI. Usually 700 plus people show up....live bands....favorite beverages at his Tiki Hut...the party lasts until about 5 AM. His home includes a 10' tall skeleton in his vaulted family room, which he keeps up most of the year! Crazy but fun .........one of several events at his compound.

Texasdaughter :
Here is a favorite skelly of mine.

Cstomio123 :
Are you referencing skeletons as "them"?

teatime :
I went to a wedding at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, and I did not expect to have a hard time with it. It's a beautiful place, but being surrounded by all those skeletons made me really uncomfortable. I could feel the beginning of a panic attack coming on. I think going through cancer changed the way I look at certain things. You spend so much time thinking about the possibility of not being here, and even when you're doing better, the fear does not just disappear. I was trying to enjoy the wedding and not show what I was feeling but I was feeling pretty overwhelmed.And now, when I see skeletons being used as Halloween decorations, I have a hard time understanding the appeal. I know most people see them as silly or spooky decorations, and I'm sure they don't mean anything by it. It just hits differently for me now. After cancer, a skeleton isn't simply a funny Halloween prop in the same way it might have been before. I know I've become more sensitive to things that bring those feelings back. Maybe other people don't think twice about it, but for me, there's a little more behind that reaction than just being afraid of something spooky.

Texasdaughter : There's a house in Greentree that I drove past this week. I had to look twice. There was a skeleton that looked like it was falling from the roof. I did laugh to myself. It was creative and funny. After my kid grew out of trick-or-treating I just decorate for fall. Halloween back in my day was very memorable and fun. No store bought costumes or decorations like today, no worries about the candy you got from strangers. Good times!

Rapsalot :
I would like to think my husband would know better than to think I would find it funny.The closest he came was when he removed the horse head from our son's hobby horse and put it in our bed next to me while I slept. My family is Sicilian and this was a few weeks after we watched The Godfather on tv.

Texasdaughter :
We don't put a lot of emphasis on Halloween but, I am not critizing those who do. murry: and I have always celebrated the Harvest this time of the year.

MrsC67 teatime :
I could see this I suppose. I guess it doesn't bother me as much because I know he history and was raised with the knowledge that life and death are not separate opposite things but more of just different parts in the same journey. I learned about momento mori early in life. My whole family is like that I suppose. My father was aware he wasn't going to be around forever when he grew ill. He made a sort of memento mori to amuse himself that we still have and display long after he passed.

It's not a morbid display of death. It's a reminder. A reminder we all die and life is to be enjoyed while we have the short chance to do so. My uncle had a 10 year battle with cancer he didn't win in the end. He hurt, he was tired, he faded towards the end. But, while he was around and fighting he did so with humour. He lost all his hair from the treatments he received. I mean permanent alopecia at a point. He joked about resembling Uncle Fester. On the next visit down to Houston for treatments he brought a trick lightbulb with him to do the Uncle Fester lightbulb gag. I can still think of him doing that with all the horrible things he was going through and laugh. It's interesting to me that a simple symbol of a skeleton can have so many different meanings to different people.