Thread: We're Heathens???

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Okay, this just happened tonight when we were out putting up our tombstones and the rest of our cobwebs. Two girls in the neighborhood stopped by and while we were talking to them they stated that our house and the pastor's house down the way were the only houses they could ToT at. My mother and I of course asked why and they stated that their mother doesn't believe in Halloween. My mum makes a sarcastic comment, "Well I guess she must think we're heathens then," and the girls just laughed like "Yeah, pretty much." The reason I'm venting is that we have a small scale display with: 1 blucky detached with the lower part in one of our trees and the other staked into the ground, 1 blucky wired to the other tree and cobwebbed to look like a spider victim with a giant spider posed above it, 6 tombstones (Vlad, Lizzie Borden, Doc Holliday, Victor Frankenstein, Edgar Allan Poe, and Lenore), one bag of bones that is posed in a pouting chair and extra bones with a vulture posed next to it with the little organs on top of the bones, a broom hanging by the front door with a witch's hat hanging above it, and various signs (morgue, autopsy room, insane asylum, vampire zone, and witch sign) hanging above the garage, front windows and at the beginning of the porch.

So really what's the problem? This really made us p.o.'d and have now decided to retaliate to this close-mindedness. We are taking scrap styrofoam from a package we received recently and are making gravestones depicting Rebecca Nurse, Giles Corey, Bridget Bishop, and Sarah Goode. Heathens are we, we'll show you heathens. We've also begun to plan for next year tossing around ideas of making a full-size witch and so on. Sorry for the rant, but had to vent.

On a lighter note, another woman walking her labs thought the decorations were great and thought it was very spooky. Our first scare of the season (even without any moving props) were her two dogs. They saw the upper half of the blucky staked in the ground and lost it. Both started growling and their hackles raised, but would inch closer to it and jump back. I finally had to crouch near it and pet them before they would investigate and deem it "harmless"!!

Had to share that cute incident to make up for the wild-eyed rant I just got through with.

Cheers and Happy Haunting!!

Wow, great idea! You both make a point and honor the innocents who were hanged (or crushed in Giles' case).

I really wouldn't waste the energy in being angry. I instead choose to feel sad for all the fun they miss out on. Truly, do any of these zealots ever appear to be happy? The ones I know sure don't. On the other hand, I LOVE your idea for the Salem graves! Do it for sure!

Love your avatar-it's David, isn't it?

Yea, I have to agree with Madame Leota. In fact, i think it'd be pretty cool to have that kind of reputation - in reality i'm a pretty mild-mannered Christian!

First off, yes my avatar is David from The Lost Boys, I love that movie!!

Second off, we're angry/frustrated because we think its ignorance that fuels these ideas and the fact that the two girls will not come into our yard because of what their mum said. Although it was kind of funny to see them inching away from our driveway!! But we don't want the little kids to be afraid of our decorations - these two girls have an adorable two-year old brother who was initially afraid of the giant spider until he got to "pet" it and when he went up to the vulture and bones it was another cute moment because he would touch the squishy organs we had on top of the bones and go "EWW" and then touch them again. It makes us wonder if she's scared the living daylights out of little one and all our hard work is for naught. Now the older kids and the adults, well we'll probably live up to our label of heathens just because we like to creep them out.

I'm confused....if their mother doesn't believe in halloween and thinks you are heathens, why are they allowed to TOT at yours and the pastors house??? Am I missing something?

If you figure it out let us know because we certainly don't understand it and another thing is the pastor (which we don't even know what part of the neighborhood he lives in), if he's their pastor, then he certainly wouldn't believe in Halloween, so then why would he hand out candy?? This doesn't make sense to us, but then again we celebrate this holiday and are heathens. We've stopped trying to understand the people of the neighborhood and are happy just sticking to ourselves and plotting for next year!!

Originally Posted by bluidy clavers

If you figure it out let us know because we certainly don't understand it and another thing is the pastor (which we don't even know what part of the neighborhood he lives in), if he's their pastor, then he certainly wouldn't believe in Halloween, so then why would he hand out candy?? This doesn't make sense to us, but then again we celebrate this holiday and are heathens. We've stopped trying to understand the people of the neighborhood and are happy just sticking to ourselves and plotting for next year!!

Well, a couple of possibilities come to mind:
First, just because he is their "pastor" doesn't mean he is teaching the kind of garbage the mother is spewing. I've gone to the same church for 25 years and never have we had a minister teach this "satanic holiday" nonsense. But we've always had a few idiots that take it upon themselves to make the rest of us look bad.
Another possibility is that he's one of the ones that is going to "save" the children from this evil by handing out pamplets with scripture attached to the candy. Llittle do they know that the kids just throw them away without ever reading a word and go for the candy!

The thing I really wonder about is that when we met the kids it was a few weeks ago and they were really excited about going ToTing and they were walking down the street with another relative (I guess an aunt) and she mentioned that their mom bought the little boy a halloween costume. If she doesn't believe in Halloween why is she letting the older girls go ToTing and more importantly why is she buying the little boy a costume. Its like she has a split personality or she can't make up her mind whether or not Halloween is a holiday to be celebrated. I don't know the only conclusion I can come to is that she is a bloody hypocrite. This is why I would rather deal with books, Halloween props and decorations and dogs!