Easter Eve Witches

Reminiscent of the ancient belief that the witches held their annual chapel at Easter on top of the mountain Blakulla, today Swedish children dress as witches on Easter Eve and run around to their neighbors to throw Easter letters, paskbrev, on their friends’ doorsteps. In an unpublished manuscript in the library of the Swedish Museum in Philadelphia, there is a statement that in the time when this belief in witches was prevalent, an infallible method of detecting the witches in the community was to place three eggs in the pocket before starting to church on Easter Sunday. These eggs must be the first laid by the young chicken. Part of the witches’ creed required them to attend church on Easter Sunday morning. The three eggs in the pocket gave the person carrying them the power to see the witches and hear them read their prayers backward.

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Eastertide

Passover Cocktails For Each Of The Ten Plagues

This seems like a really neat goal:  Commit to making every single one of these Plague Cocktails.  

Here are some of the more interesting ones...

Plague 1: Blood

Cocktail: Red Nile

Ingredients:

2 oz potato vodka

4 oz tomato juice

1/2 oz lemon juice

1 oz Arak

1 tsp white horseradish

6 drops Texas Pete

3 drops Fee Brothers Old Fashioned Cocktail Bitters (no corn syrup)

Dash salt

Dash pepper

Carrot stick for garnish

Plague 2: Frogs

Cocktail: Paris in April

Ingredients:

1 1/2 oz Cognac

1 oz green Chartreuse

1/2 oz Grand Marnier

4 oz Perrier

Plague 4: Beasts

Cocktail: Zion King

Ingredients:

1 1/2 oz fig brandy

1 1/2 oz non-grain spirits gin

2 oz fresh squeezed orange juice

3/4 oz Chambord

Plague 8: Locusts

Cocktail: Desert Swarm

Ingredients:

2 oz white rum

1 oz non-grain spirits gin

1 oz RW Knudsen Organic Pear Juice

1/2 oz fresh lemon juice

1/2 oz fresh egg white

1/2 oz Domino Organic Blue Agave Syrup

2 dashes Fee Brothers Orange Bitters (no corn syrup)

Club soda (preferably fresh-made SodaStream)

Fresh parsley for garnish

Plague 10: Slaying of the first born

Cocktail: Pharaoh’s Lament

Ingredients:

4 1/2 oz very dry sparkling wine

1 oz absinthe

2 dashes Fee Brothers Orange Bitters

Lemon wedge

Kosher salt

Thanks, Wren!  

My mini-bar won't know what's happening.

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Now Playing: Some Easter Weekend Music

By Peter Gabriel, from the amazing score to The Last Temptation of Christ.

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Easter Candy

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H.R. Giger would be proud.

Thanks, Wren!

Cadbury Scotch Eggs

Some Easter Music

This soundtrack and Birdy are two amazing pieces of work by Peter Gabriel.

Click below for Passion from The Last Temptation of Christ.

An Easter Tradition

Now Playing: Sandstorm

By Peter Gabriel.

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Apropos

From an old favorite.



More wonderful images by surlycorvid.

Easter Candy: Lick It

Half Way

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Regression

"Since i was very young i have always been terrified of aliens and any thing to do with them, Just the though of the big eyes long fingers and big heads make me want to scream and cry. One night while i was laying in bed it must of been about 2:00AM i was wide awake every one else seemed to be asleep, My bedroom is at the top of the stairs so if you look up the stairs you can see into my room, depending on wether the door is open or not. Anyway this paticular night i heard noises down stairs like footsteps and hushed whispers, I was frightened and wanted to call out to someone like my parents but for some reason i couldnt i was to terrified to move or speak. I though maybe if the thing downstairs didnt know i was awake they wouldnt come up. But as if the "Thing" read my mind teh hushed whispers and footsteps came closer to the bottom of the stairs then when i knew the "THING" was at the bottom of the stairs the voices and footsteps stopped, and it all went silent. When it goes silent thats when you start to worry."

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sketchybunnies.com

Egg O'Lantern