Greetings children of the night, ghosts, ghouls and monsters of all ages. It is the last day of spooky season, Spooktober has come to an end and Blogtober has seen us post every single day this month and pass 100 posts on our blog!… Continue Reading “October Monthly Round Up”
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Posted on Oct 30, 2020
by ourmuchnessguide
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We can officially say Happy Halloween! But, you guys, it’s only October 30th! Well dearest mortals it is but today’s blog post is all about the festival that inspired the modern festivities that we know as Halloween – Samhain (Modern Irish). Apart from the… Continue Reading “Sam-Hane? Samhain!”
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So rather than giving you with just a month’s worth of random songs for My Year in Music (which I will do on the 1st as always), Niamh and I decided that because it’s Spooktober to give you a playlist filled with the best… Continue Reading “The Monster Halloween Playlist”
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So far in Spooktober we have looked at some fearsome monsters, covered some TV and Movie must sees and re-lived Halloween of Years gone by. But, today Day 11 of Spooktober has got a Musical twist to it! So, get ready with some gruesome… Continue Reading “8 Great Halloweeny Musicals”
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Greeting guys and ghouls, gals and Gorgons; it is time for another Spooktober blog post and, this time around, I’m here to talk to you about the monsters that have mostly avoided appearing on the big screen… These are the real monsters of the… Continue Reading “The List of Lesser Known Monsters”
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This post is dedicated to the inner child in us all as we all try to plan how exactly we are going to celebrate Halloween this year. For most of my childhood and all of my siblings’, we never went trick or treating because… Continue Reading “Halloween Party Games”
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Superstitions are just silly little things, right? Not to some. Superstitions are a general belief in supernatural forces influencing unpredictable situations and factors. For some people, taking part in superstitious rituals gives a sense of control and reduces anxiety and, in some cases, superstitious… Continue Reading “Crazy Superstitions”
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One thing Halloween is known for is fear. So, I decided to look at some of the most common and the down right oddest fears that we have names for. Well not even fears but phobias. There’s a difference. Fear is an emotional reaction… Continue Reading “Common Fears and the Down Right Bizarre”
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Can you ever imagine feeling sorry for someone like President Snow from The Hunger Games? In her most recent novel, Suzanne Collins introduces us to the young Coriolanus Snow and his less than luxurious upbringing in the Capitol after the loss of both his… Continue Reading “Booktober – The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes”
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Posted on Oct 13, 2020
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Day 13 of Blogtober and we’re back to Niamh’s last #Booktober book, get ready for a modern eerie parody twist on one of my favourite classics. It’s time for ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’. I first came across this story when the movie of… Continue Reading “Booktober – Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”
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