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”
Category: Music MuchnessTags: ACDC, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Annie Lennox, Backstreet Boys, Backstreets Back, Bad Moon Rising, Billie Eilish, Black Magic, Blogtober, Bobby Pickett, Bring Me To Life, bury a friend, Calling All The Monsters, China Anne McClain, Crazy Train, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Creep, Deadmau5, Descendants, Disturbia, Dorothy, Eminem, Enter Sandman, Evanescence, Fall Out Boy, Fifth Harmony, Ghostbusters, Ghosts n Stuff, Godzilla, Gorillaz, Halloween, Halloweeny, Halsey, Haunted, Heads Will Roll, Helena, Hells Bells, I Put A Spell On You, Im In Love With A Monster, In The Shadows, Juice WRLD, Kanye West, Little Mix, Marilyn Manson, Marshmello, Metallica, Michael Jackson, Monster, Monster Mash, Music, My Chemical Romance, My Immortal, My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Nightmare, Ozzy Ozbourne, Paramore, Pet Semetary, Playlist, Radiohead, Red Right Hand, Rihanna, Rockwell, Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites, Selena Gomez, Shakira, She Wolf, Skrillex, Somebodys Watching Me, Spooktober, Spooky Season, Spotify, Tainted Love, Taylor Swift, The Automatic, The Cranberries, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Phantom of the Opera, The Ramones, The Rasmus, This is Halloween, Thriller, Time Warp, We Own The Night, Wicked Ones, Wolves, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Zombie, Zombies 2
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”
Category: Our Muchness, Random MuchnessTags: A Very Potter Musical, Agony, Andrew Lippa, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Blogtober, Descendants, Feed Me, Halloween, Halloweeny, Howard Ashman, into the woods, James Lapine, Little Shop of Horrors, Marshall Brickman, musicals, Phantom of the Opera Overture, Pulled, Richard O Brien, Richard Stilgoe, Rick Elice, Rotten to the Core, Spooktober, Spooky Season, Stephen Sondheim, Sweeny Todd, The Addams Family, The Phantom of the Opera, the rocky horror picture show, The Time Warp, Worst Pies In London, YouTube
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”
Category: Random MuchnessTags: Aboriginal Mythology, Anglo Saxon, Australia, Banshee, Basilisk, Beowulf, Blogtober, Bunyip, Canada, Folklore, Greek Mythology, Grendel, Halloween, Halloweeny, Ireland, Manticore, Monsters, Nuckelavee, Orkney Islands, Persian Mythology, Scotland, Spooktober, Spooky Season, The List of Lesser Known Monsters, Urban Legends, USA, Wendigo
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”
Category: Our Muchness, Random MuchnessTags: Apple Bobbing, Balloons, Blogtober, Board Games, Cluedo, DVD Board Games, Flour, Flour Game, Flour Tower, Fun, Games, Halloween, Halloween Bingo, Halloweeny, Inner Child, Interactive Board Games, Monster Guts, Mummy Wrap, Murder Mystery, Party Games, Pumpkin Patch Stomp, Spider Walking, Spooktober, Spooky Season, Stay Home Stay Safe, Sweets, Treats, Trick or Treat, Witchy Ring Toss
Hello Witches, Wizards, Creature of the Night and Humans! It’s getting closer to Halloween by the day and, in true spooky fashion, October wouldn’t be October without the fantastic and unique ASMR content on YouTube! October is the month where you are guaranteed to… Continue Reading “ASMR Halloween Special”
Category: Our Muchness, Random MuchnessTags: ASMR, ASMR Halloween Special, ASMR Reliya, ASMR Shanny, Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response, Calming Coven, CalmingEscape, Cap Bailey ASMR, Coraline, CrinkleLuvin ASMR, DC, DCOMs, Disney, Fiddlesticks, Five Nights At Freddies, Five Nights At Jennies, Halloween, Halloween Special, Halloweentown, Halloweeny, Jim5 ASMR, League of Legends, Other Mother, Spooktober, Spooky Season, The Joker, VisualSounds1, Welcome to Halloweentown, World Of Warcraft, Your Other Mother and Father, YouTube
Day six is dedicated to those who go all out for Halloween. A number of my friends spent weeks planning their Halloween Costumes, Hair and Make Up while I usually scrambled to put something fun together last minute. So, as everyone scrambles to make… Continue Reading “Favourite Halloween Costumes of the Past”
Category: Our Muchness, Random MuchnessTags: Bellatrix Lestrange, Beyblade, College, Costumes, Dead Fangirl, Fantasy, Hair, Halloween, Halloweeny, Harry Potter, Homemade, Make Up, Mariah, Niall Horan, Pink, Queen Amidala, Sci Fi, Spooktober, Spooky Season, Star Wars, Wednesday Addams, Witch, Zoom Parties
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”
Category: Random MuchnessTags: Ancient Britain, Believe It Or Not, Black Cats, Blogtober, International, Irish, Itchy Nose, Magpies, Number 13, Russia, Spooktober, Spooky Season, Supernatural, Superstitions, Tempting Fate, The Netherlands
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”
Category: Random MuchnessTags: Acrophobia, Ants, Arachnophobia, Beards, Belly Button, Bizarre, Blogtober, Buried Alive, Cheese, Claustrophobia, Deep Water, Enclosed Spaces, Fear, Fears, Flying, Greek, Halloween, Heights, Hippotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, Insects, Long Words, Lutraphobia, Myrmecophobia, Needles, Ocean, Omphalophobia, Otters, Phobia, Phobias, Pogonophobia, Pteromerhanophobia, Small Spaces, Spiders, Spooktober, Taphophobia, Thalassophobia, Trypanophobia, Turophobia, Unusual
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