Thursday 29 October 2009

Samhain Preparations


Last October, my Rare One and I were in Italy. Among other things, we enjoyed a wonderful visit to Cinque Terre, which is the collective name for five tiny towns close together on the Italian Riviera. In the town of Monterosso, I spotted these beautiful witchy brooms carefully stacked against a small retaining wall. They were obviously someone's working brooms waiting there for future use. But I knew they were not just anybody's brooms nor were they just for any kind of work . . . . They must belong to the local strega and her coven . . . . Samhain is coming! The veil is thin. We fly at midnight!


9 comments:

Jeanne said...

Great pic! Wonderful brooms!

in the west I am the dragon said...

beauty, dear one, beauty

Stacey J. Warner said...

wonderfully magical...

Suzie Ridler said...

Love the story! And it is almost time to fly, isn't it?

Renee said...

So exciting, have a wonderful time.

Love Renee xoxo

mxtodis123 said...

Love the picture. Thanks.
Mary

Caroline said...

Love those brooms...

yellowdoggranny said...

great brooms...history channel is having a bunch of great shows on halloween and all about how it started in Ireland and all the pagan rituals and how they were turned into christiand ideas and then into a halloween holiday..pretty cool.

Rue said...

Wonderful pile of sky-riders! Feel like zooming off now....