Witches in Black

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Happy Halloween

"Halloween is the one night of the year when the veil is lifted between the living and the realm of the dead. The dead walk the earth and we have to dress up in scary costumes so they won't drag us back to Hell with them..."

Here's to a perfect Halloween.

Give the Devil his due.

Witchy

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Tiny Halloween.

Found these in an antique shop down the street, I have no idea if they qualify as antique...or even vintage, but they look the part...and I am quite fond of them

I'm going to have to adopt some very tiny children.

Leashed

When I first glanced at this I thought that ghost was on a leash, being led by that witch.
...which made this photo so much cooler.

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After Midnight...

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Ready

 

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Halloween Safety 1977

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Why, oh why...

Do things like this no longer happen.

1940s National Biscuit Co. Halloween Spiced Wafer Box and Canco Halloween tin.

I want to reside in that little house back there.



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Where Halloween masks go to die.

I was at a flea market a few weeks ago and I spotted a Frankenstein mask very similar to the one pictured here.  When I went over to investigate, I found several others...a witch, devil, gorilla, and so on. Most of them were on the floor, in the dirt, behind a big, elaborate case.  I knocked over a few priceless antiques and made my way to them...they were all dirty,  stapled together and cracked in several places. I thought about rescuing them for posterity sake, they obviously weren't where they should be.  But I flipped over their little price-tags...only to discover that I'm pretty sure the keepers of the shop knew what they had...they just didn't care. Meanwhile, in that big elaborate case, locked up from Halloween scoundrels, was a string of vintage Christmas lights...from the 50's...still in their original box...with a little handwritten sign that read 'fragile'.

Christmas:  for assholes.



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Trick or Treat.

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Autumn Harvest

From the 1964 edition of the book Autumn Harvest, by Alvin Tresselt, illustrated by the great Roger Duvoisin. Copyright 1951.

As if in a dream...

 

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Strange things are good.

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The Devil Rides Out.

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Kenny and his pumpkin.