The History of Halloween and Other Spooky Tales

If you suffer from samhainophobia, continue reading at your own risk. Halloween’s Celtic beginning Samhain (pronounced SOW-in) was an ancient Celtic harvest festival celebrating the beginning of a new year before the dark of winter set in. The Celts believed the ghosts of the dead returned to earth on October 31, the eve of the …

Halloween Meat Hand

There’s nothing worse than finding a dead hand in your mashed potatoes. Appetizing, huh? Last year Meagan Reardon of the Not Martha blog shared this hideous creation. I knew as soon as I saw it that I had to have my own hand this year. She used a plastic hand mold to create it but …