A Little Grimm

Fairy tales are horror stories so it’s fitting to share them as collected by The Brothers Grimm  today on the 21st day before Halloween.

Books of Grimms’ fairy tales stand on display for sale at the Grimm Brothers Museum in Kassel, Germany. Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Chapter listing and length: 01 – The Golden Bird — 00:00:00 02 – Hans In Luck — 00:16:41 03 – Jorinda and Jorindel — 00:32:53 04 – The Traveling Musicians — 00:41:01 05 – Old Sultan — 00:50:27 06 – The Straw, The Bean, and The Coal — 00:56:20 07 – Brier Rose — 01:00:12 08 – The Dog and The Sparrow — 01:10:06 09 – The Twelve Dancing Princessess — 01:19:06 10 – The Fisherman and His Wife — 01:29:31 11 – The Willow-Wren And The Bear — 01:44:53 12 – The Frog-Prince — 01:51:25 13 – Cat and Mouse In Partnership — 01:59:42 14 – The Goose Girl — 02:06:54 15 – The Adventurers of Chanticleer and Partlet — 02:21:52 16 – Rapunzel — 02:34:32 17 – Fundevogel — 02:44:30 18 – The Valiant Little Tailor — 02:51:15 19 – Hansel and Gretel — 03:13:41 20 – The Mouse, The Bird, and the Sausage — 03:33:13 21 – Mother Holle — 03:37:42 22 – Little Red Riding Hood — 03:46:05 23 – The Robber Bridegroom — 03:56:01 24 – Tom Thumb — 04:05:32 25 – Rumpelstiltskin — 04:21:58 26 – Clever Gretel — 04:30:21 27 – The Old Man and His Grandson — 04:36:52 28 – The Little Peasant —04:38:52 29 – Frederick and Catherine — 04:52:35 30 – Sweetheart Roland — 05:05:20 31 – Snowdrop — 05:15:15 32 – The Pink — 05:31:26 33 – Clever Elsie — 05:42:47 34 – The Miser In The Bush — 05:51:50 35 – Ashputtel — 05:59:55 36 – The White Snake — 06:16:10 37 – The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids — 06:26:10 38 – The Queen Bee — 06:33:19 39 – The Elves and the Shoemaker — 06:38:24 40 – The Juniper-Tree — 06:43:13 41 – The Turnip — 07:03:34 42 – Clever Hans — 07:10:55 43 – The Three Languages — 07:18:15 44 – The Fox and the Cat — 07:24:30 45 – The Four Clever Brothers — 07:26:51 46 – Lily and the Lion — 07:37:25 47 – The Fox and the Horse — 07:52:27 48 – The Blue Light — 07:55:56 49 – The Raven — 08:07:14 50 – The Golden Goose — 08:22:44 51 – The Water of Life — 08:32:50 52 – The Twelve Huntsmen — 08:49:45 53 – The King of the Golden Mountain — 08:56:50 54 – Doctor Knowall — 09:12:06 55 – The Seven Ravens — 09:17:20 56 – The Wedding of Mrs. Fox — 09:23:41 57 – The Salad — 09:29:30 58 – The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth To Learn What Fear Was — 09:43:14 59 – King Grisly-Beard — 10:07:56 60 – Iron Hans — 10:17:40 61 – Cat-Skin — 10:37:41 62 – Snow-White and Rose-Red — 10:50:25

Mollie Welt

A memorial showing brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, authors of Grimms’ Fairy Tales, stands in a small park on November 20, 2012 in Kassel, Germany. Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images

The Weather Is Beautiful, Wish You Were Here

There are 23 days left to Halloween- do you have any travel plans?

The dam in Pasadena, California  was named Devil’s Gate in 1920 for this rock formation which is said to remsembled Satan himself.

I don’t see it, but I always see nothing on the Rorschach test so in the past I just make stuff up. There probably is a face there, but nope. I get nothing.

However, I am intruged by the Devil’s Gate story because the The Tongva believed that the water running through the gorge sounded like laughter ( which running water does have that sound, so I’m on board with the Tongva in that respect ) but this is where I get on board and sail the ship through  Arroyo Seco-  the Tongva attribute the laughter to the Coyote Spirit.

TUKUPAR ITAR, the Coyote spirit  is a trickster, he’s the God of mayhem and is an expert in mischief.  I have to admitt, I do love that type of character.

Occultists discovered the Gate in 1940 and since then they’ve made this a destination  place for summoning the dead, spirits and I guess the Devil himself.

As a rule I find that  spirits that take on the form of animals far more frightening and intriguing then demons who possess children and ghost hunters who scream at the spirits who managed to cross back into the land of the living when some of us can’t even managed to count on our airline of choice to take off and land on time,  and get away with it.

I suppose that no matter how you look at it, Devil’s Gate has earned it’s place in the world of the Supernatural. In modern times, people searched for a gateway to Hell and as far as they are concerned they found it and gave it a heck of a good story.

But without that sound- the sound of the Trickster God who laughs as he glides by you in the night, or under a blazing hot sky as he tries to find a way to take your reality and give it a sharp twist, the story of Devil’s Gate might not be so interesting.

https://youtu.be/wqeeJM9pXEc

Devil’s Gate Dam

#100halloweenhappy-adventure.

Order Of Service

This is a story about Letta Bardwell and it’s been told in her obituary because there are 24 days left to Halloween and it’s a fitting place to lay it and her to rest.

 

Letta Bardwell, the daughter of the late Carmen Dorstand and Obadiah Dorstand was not born, she was spawned by the forces of darkness at an abandoned asylum for the criminally insane called  Morin Creekside on November 1st, 1910.

Her beloved parents summoned her from the morgue in a ritual involving human sacrifice- and after calling her forward on several  failed occasions they were successful at 12:01 on All Souls Day.

Letta was an active member of the Girl Scouts of America where she  excelled  in archery, sewing and cooking. As a result of her early training with the  Girl Scouts Letta became the prime suspect in several unsolved murder cases involving cannibalism, grave robbing and assaults involving high speed projectiles and fire.

She was also a gifted artist and a talented writer and  traveled all around the world, but after losing her right eye and suffering burns and a serioius chest injury  during a trip to Romania in 1960 in a fall,  she gave up her travels and threw herself into volunteer work in our community- where she gave help and comfort to our socieities less fortunate and tortured souls.

Her life will be remembered with reverence by her children- Cesya, Theresina and Mattias who’s whereabouts to this day are unknown but as per her last words, she called out to them and without a doubt they will return to the town where she brought them into this world, piece by piece.

Letta was proceeded in death by her husband ( four times to be exact )  Galen Bardwell, by her sister in law Julia Morin and her husband Parker, whose untimely deaths by attack by persons and animal unknown at the Open Grave Traveling Sideshow  has been the inspiration of several horror movies since  the tragedy in 1948.

Letta’s parents left this world shortly after she turned 16, but no one knows where they went. It’s assumed they went back to the Asylum and have been in residence there, off and on,  over the years

ORDER OF SERVICE

Processional and Viewing  Led By Reverand Imset

Hymn RIng Around The Rosie

Scripture- Passages from The Egptian Book of The Dead

Words of Comfort- Cold Case Detective Hamlen Widner

Acknowlegments Staff of Leaning Birches Mortuary

Recessional

Interment

Trumaine Cemetery

Gertrude Abercrombie
Self-Portrait
1939

RDP THURSDAY: OBITUARY

Halloween Questions

There are 25 days left to Halloween and I have some questions:

Is this a just a plant? I think not:

https://youtu.be/KjWXp1l1F_g

Is this a Christmas movie or a Halloween movie? The choice is yours:

Freddie V Jason was the question, it was right up there in the Superhero debate-  who would win in a fight, Superman or Batman? Wilma Flintstone or Betty Rubble ( hey that debate got INTENSE ) but the bottom line is Freddie wouldn’t have had a chance against a Ghostbuster. 

 

Artist Unknown

And can it really be Halloween without a song about  Halloween Gummy Bears? Let me answer that question: NO!!!

Songwriter: Chris Schneider.

Oh, I’m a gummy bear
Yes I’m a gummy bear
Oh, I’m a yummy, tummy, funny
Lucky gummy bear
I’m a jelly bear
‘Cause I’m a gummy bear
Oh, I’m a movin’, groovin’, jammin’
Singing gummy bear
Oh, yeah!
Ba ba bidubidubi yum yum
Ba ba bidubidubi yum yum
Ba ba bidubidubi yum yum
Three times you can bite me
Ba ba bidubidubi yum yum
Ba ba bidubidubi yum yum
Ba ba bidubidubi yum yum
Three times you can bite me
Oh, I’m a gummy bear
Yes I’m a gummy bear
Oh, I’m a yummy, tummy, funny
Lucky gummy bear
I’m a jelly bear
‘Cause I’m a gummy bear
Oh, I’m a movin’, groovin’, jammin’
Singing gummy bear
Oh, yeah!
Ba ba bidubidubi yum yum
Ba ba bidubidubi yum yum
Ba ba bidubidubi yum yum
Three times you can bite me
Ba ba bidubidubi yum yum
Ba ba bidubidubi yum yum
Ba ba bidubidubi yum yum
Three times you can bite me
Gummy gummy gummy gummy gummy bear
Bai ding ba doli party
Bamm bing ba doli party
Breding ba doli party party pop
Bai ding ba doli party
Bamm bing ba doli party
Breding ba doli party party pop
Oh, I’m a gummy bear
Yes I’m a gummy bear
Oh, I’m a yummy, tummy, funny
Lucky gummy bear
I’m a jelly bear
‘Cause I’m a gummy bear
Oh, I’m a movin’, groovin’, jammin’
Singing gummy bear
Oh, yeah!
Ba ba bidubidubi yum yum
Ba ba bidubidubi yum yum
Ba ba bidubidubi yum yum
Three times you can bite me
Ba ba bidubidubi yum yum
Ba ba bidubidubi yum yum
Ba ba bidubidubi yum yum
Three times you can bite me
Oh, I’m a gummy bear
Yes I’m a gummy bear
Oh, I’m a yummy, tummy, funny
Lucky gummy bear
I’m a jelly bear
‘Cause I’m a gummy bear
Oh, I’m a movin’, groovin’, jammin’
Singing gummy bear
Oh, yeah!
Ba ba bidubidubi yum yum
Ba ba bidubidubi yum yum
Ba ba bidubidubi yum yum
Three times you can bite me
Ba ba bidubidubi yum yum
Ba ba bidubidubi yum yum
Ba ba bidubidubi yum yum
Three times you can bite me
Songwriters: Chris Schneider.

Like I said, Halloween is coming and I’ve got questions- don’t you?

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