This is Halloween

By Mel

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As a lover of the spooky season, I tend to go all out and make the most of Halloween! Now, let me just state this now, “Halloween isn’t just for kids, it’s for everyone!”

I have always loved Halloween since I can remember, so I don’t want to stop that any time soon! So I wanted to share some of my favourite activities to do within the spooky season.

• Halloween DIY.

One of my favourite things to do overall is be creative. Create things that are unusual or just above all fun to make and interesting to look at! Recently, to start off October I decided to make some Halloween themed ducks and pumpkins. 

So what I did was I brought some household objects, cheap from my local bargain shop and decided to get some inspiration from Pinterest to get me started! My recent one I made was a pumpkin but I painted it blue with a yellow stalk, with a black bow.

So to define the idea behind this I’m a lover of Alice In Wonderland and Alice means a lot to me so why not start off with something that you most desire?

• Attending Halloween Events

This year, it was my goal to attend more Halloween events like Halloween Circus, zombie applicative movie theatre and corn mazes!

• Reading Up About Halloween Myths And Legends.

So some of my favourite myths and legends I’ve recently read about are; 

• Mexico: La Llorona - The Weeping Woman
• USA: The Deer Woman
• Devil’s Bridge (Which I have visited)
• The Lady of the Lake

I wanted to give a quick brief description of “Devil’s Bridge” as I’ve recently visited it. The urban legend goes something like this; The devil gained a bargain with a local woman whose cow was stranded across the river. In a bid to buy her soul, the devil said he’d build her a bridge in exchange for the soul of the first living thing that crossed it.

So you van kind of see why I have a liking for urban legends then visiting the location of the legend itself. The history behind it is quite interesting and can sometimes make you question how this urban legend came to exist. ​