Light your Jack’o’lanterns and set out your “treats” for the denizens of otherworlds as the veil grows thin. Let’s sit around a silent supper or tell each other’s futures—hushed whispers in the dark, raucous celebration in the firelight. Take a bite of an apple and learn about Samhain, the Gaelic fire festival of the dead.
Dessert: Apples from <a href="https://applewedge.com">Apple Wedge Packers, Hendersonville NC</a>
Death Trivia: 
<a href="https://www.altfg.com/film/actor-ramon-novarro-murdered-halloween/?fbclid=IwAR3yuG34JeBDhK-8g6DdTzVKUIj80EI3T6jhVTW-SHJKEnHgNMUZZ84EdUw">Actor Ramon Novarro Murdered On Halloween Eve</a> 
<a href="https://highshrink.com/2020/08/08/was-ramon-novarros-murderer-posting-on-imdb-from-prison/?fbclid=IwAR3yuG34JeBDhK-8g6DdTzVKUIj80EI3T6jhVTW-SHJKEnHgNMUZZ84EdUw">Was Ramon Novarro's Murderer Posting on IMDB from Prison?</a>
Resources: 
<a href="https://celticmke.com/CelticMKE-Blog/Samhain-Tlachtga.htm#:~:text=Great%20Fire%20Festival,-The%20rituals%20and&amp;text=The%20site%20takes%20it%20name,there%20giving%20birth%20to%20triplets">Tlachtga - The Hill of Ward &amp; The Samhain Fire</a> 
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/287637.The_Pagan_Mysteries_of_Halloween ">The Pagan Mysteries of Halloween</a> 
<a href="https://www.newgrange.com/samhain.htm">Samhain</a> 
<a href="http://recipesforapagansoul.weebly.com/samhain-oct-31.html">Samhain Recipes</a> 
<a href="https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-dumb-supper?fbclid=IwAR25I_WNVoYsKVtjJ4--f4LaKLhDwbjfUI8RPrUNdDFhamrfu7Oqt0-HnBc &#10;">When Dumb Suppers Were a Halloween Love Ritual</a>
Credits: 
Research by Sonne 
Editing and Art Provided by Czarria 
 
Theme Music: "Not As It Seems" - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) 
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/</a>

Southern Europe & Poke Cake

Discussing the dark, disturbing and beautiful elements of death whilst eating dessert.