Daily Cascade

Something for Halloween

October 28, 2024

Prompt: WdC Witches
It seems we have a whole bunch of witches here in WdC, this year. If you were to be chosen the leader of the WdC witches, what would you plan with them for Halloween?

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Easy peasy! Here in WdC, I would get every witch under my command to write five to ten reviews and post at least a couple of new original writings of their own.

Then, as the witching tradition goes, I would make sure my witches had their herbs, foods, and colors on hand to scatter around the site. To be exact, those things would be:
Herbs:
Mugwort, allspice, catnip, oak leaves, sage, broom and deadly nightshade.
Foods:
Turnips, apples, nuts, mulled wine, beef, and poultry.
Colours:
Black, orange, white, silver and gold.

And I would definitely have them gather a large group of black cats carrying jack-o’-lanterns and giving everyone apples and pumpkins.

And if you think I thought all that on my own, you'd be wrong. I got some of my info from:
https://hero-magazine.com/article/159423/a-witchs-guide-to-celebrating-halloween...

Happy Halloween, Everyone!

October 29, 2024

Prompt: Followed by a ghost
Imagine you are being followed and sometimes talked to by a ghost. Whose ghost is this, someone you once knew or someone in the history and what is this experience like?
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I don't know if a ghost is following me or if they are talking to me, but it seems I talk to them constantly. Sometimes, I look in the mirror and talk to that ghost of me in it. Then, inside my head I'm always talking to family members and my husband who have passed on.

But if I were to talk to a real ghost, it would have to be the ghost of first group of people on earth. I would ask them, "Look at the result of what you guys have started! Fantastic in some ways but destructive and contentious in others. I'm not blaming you; still, you could have done something a bit more to give us better genes."

They would probably say something like, "What you the imbeciles are doing after us is your problem. What we gave you were survival skills and you took those and used them against each other. Whose fault is this?"

Just maybe they would be telling the truth.