All Hallow's Eve

💀I Welcome You To My Eternal Place Of Rest💀
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In the United States the 31st day of October is celebrated as Halloween.  Here, from History.com, is what they say is its origin:

Halloween is an annual holiday, celebrated each year on October 31, that has roots in age-old European traditions. It originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, when people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off ghosts. In the eighth century, Pope Gregory III designated November 1 as a time to honor all saints; soon, All Saints Day incorporated some of the traditions of Samhain. The evening before was known as All Hallows Eve, and later Halloween.  

These days Halloween is mainly an excuse to dress up in some sort of scary fashion and have some fun.  Children love it as they go "Trick or Treating," which means they get to dress up in scary costumes, roam their neighborhoods and bring home lots of candy.

As I have mentioned in the past, I have an ongoing project documenting interesting cemeteries, gravestones, markers, memorials and such.  What could me more appropriate for a Halloween post than to highlight a few of my ghostly images from my gallery?  

Whenever I travel, I try to visit old cemeteries to get a glimpse of the culture of the time of a person's death.  You can see my images here.  I find them very interesting and I think you will as well.

In the future, do you want your grave to be seen with dancing skeletons such as Elizabeth Gerrish's headstone?

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Or would you enjoy eternally thinking about future visitors looking at your headstone and wondering why only a simple hand-carved rock, now covered in lichens as is Elisebeth Stinnett's, who was born in 1871 and died in 1881.

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Or maybe your grave will be visited by hundreds each year as you were thought to be a practitioner of VooDoo like Marie Catherine Laveau, buried in St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Tourists continue to visit Marie Laveau's crypt and some draw "X" marks in accordance with a decades-old rumor that if people wanted Laveau to grant them a wish, they had to draw an "X" on the tomb, turn around three times, knock on the tomb, yell out their wish, and if it was granted, come back, circle their "X," and leave Laveau an offering. (Wikipedia)
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In any case, may many children scare you this Halloween with which their reward is to be showered in sugary delights!  And...May you rest in peace! 

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Thanks for looking. Enjoy! 

Dennis A. Mook 

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