And the strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. H.P. Lovecraft

Pictures are my yard getting ready for trick or treat. What you doing for Halloween—share with us. Am upset with this bear murder which Florida is selling tickets to—http://www.thepetitionsite.com/941/276/061/protect-florida-black-bears-from-hunting/ Sorry grumpy, some idiot called last night and woke me up with emergency—they detected a virus on my computer—-yeah I’m protected RIGHT—and I should go open up my computer and let them take care of it…..NO. Don’t ever do this folks: http://www.microsoft.com/security/online-privacy/avoid-phone-scams.aspx Phone number was from Highland, NY 1-845-691-3947 but when I called it back it came up out of service. Watch your back ladies and gents. Honorable mention: Checkered Moon (Mt. D.) http://www.checkeredmoon.com/

Oh by the way today was the day Mata Hari was executed–who and what was she? Check it out: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/mata-hari-executed

We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight.

H. P. Lovecraft

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“‘Ye are Blood of my Blood, and Bone of my Bone. I give ye my Body, that we Two might be One. I give ye my Spirit, ’til our Life shall be Done.’ From Outlander/Book

“We have nothing now between us, save—respect, perhaps. And I think that respect has maybe room for secrets, but not for lies.” Outlander/Book

Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.

H. P. Lovecraft

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MORE HALLOWEEN LEGENDS IN TODAY’S OFFERINGS (LAST BLOG OF WEEK) Today the female evil that waits for no man.

Of course there is the witch—a much over labored contrivance to put women in their place—but I’ve done that several times before..so my top evil witches. The Wicked Witch of the Westhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_Witch_of_the_West is the one that I remember the best, I also love her sister who you see only as stripped legs encased in ruby slippers—now that’s an image that has often stuck with me the witch dead and smashed under a house from Kansas—The Wizard of Oz is a rather true fairy tale given its violence (two dead witches, a traumatized and brutalized scare crow, a con-man wizard to name a few) and those flying monkeys .

Other bad witches that I think haunt our dreams at least at Halloween would be:

1. Macbeth’s Trio who’s prophesies are his excuse for murder and rebellion—am not sure the witches (unless you include the wife under witches) are the true evil here or just an excuse for bad behavior. http://shakespeare.mit.edu/macbeth/macbeth.4.1.html

2. Geilis Duncane in Outlander is tried and sentenced to burn in 18th c Scotland….we don’t see the execution and any additional comment will be a spoiler, but….She is on my list of witches since she was legally–if not actually–one. http://io9.com/on-outlander-its-time-to-burn-us-some-witches-1698906037

3. Winnie Sanderson (Hocus Pocus) Played by Bette Midler kept a little scary in this silly affair (there were 3 here again as well, but Bette was her usual bigger than life (what ever she might be at the time) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107120/

4. Hansel and Gretel’s child eating witch that lives in a gingerbread house would never have gotten me I hate gingerbread—but in true fairy tale style she is evil (I mean a cannibal who imprisons children for her dinning plesure) and a true example of how fairy tales aren’t really for children. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/12/the-real-story-behind-eve_n_4239730.html

5. Charmed–all the thousands of women who portrayed witches for just bad TV and a bad depiction of the whole world of magic etc. I actually had someone come to me about a curse that someone had put on one of their friends (for my research–I am not a witch, but have friends that are Wicca) After turning all kinds of possibilities around I found the spell from an episode of Charmed—OMG folks get a life.

The end is near. I hear a noise at the door, as of some immense slippery body lumbering against it. It shall not find me. God, that hand! The window! The window!

“Dagon” H.P. Lovecraft

LILITH has been around for a long time–may haps before forever—note picture above where she is actually united with the snake in the Garden of Eden and in some legends she is the first wife of Adam. (ah the original bad ex-wife) In actual historical context she was mentioned by Isaiah in 700 BC. (in addition she is found in Iranian, Babylonian, Mexican, Greek, Arab, English, German, Oriental and North American legends) In medieval Christianity–during the dark ages she was considered the demon queen of lust (not so scary?).

The ancient name “Lilith” derives from a Sumerian word for female demons or wind spirits—the lilītu and the related ardat lilǐ. The lilītu dwells in desert lands and open country spaces and is especially dangerous to pregnant women and infants. Her breasts are filled with poison, not milk. The ardat lilī is a sexually frustrated and infertile female who behaves aggressively toward young men. http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/people-cultures-in-the-bible/people-in-the-bible/lilith/ So we take the bad girl–make her a demon and give unfaithful men an excuses for their excesses—this ploy seems to have started with Adam my dears.

LILITH’S Fiction hasn’t been stellar: “In the US TV series Supernatural, a white-eyed and very powerful demon called Lilith appears in season 3 (2007) and season 4 (2009). She is said to be the first human ever tempted into Lucifer’s service, thus becoming the first demon. In the season 4 finale, it is revealed that she is also the last of the 66 seals, and when she is killed, the Devil is unleashed from his cage.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith_in_popular_culture

Madness rides the star-wind… claws and teeth sharpened on centuries of corpses… dripping death astride a bacchanale of bats from nigh-black ruins of buried temples of Belial…“The Hound” H.P. Lovecraft

Annie (Kathy Bates) Wilkes in Misery (1990). Some times the simplest is the scariest and the number one fan (like Wilkes) can haunt us all. For in this day of mass media and mass exposure (like on a blog—-Ok I really am a witch and if you bother me I’ll turn you into William Shatner—sorry I’ve been watching a Star Trek Marathon since yesterday.) any of us could have a number one fan like Annie.

The book by Stephen King and the movie which also stars James Cann as a popular writer who is involved in an accident in a barren country setting: “Luckily he is saved by Annie Wilkes (Ms Bates), who takes him back to her isolated cottage in the icy mountains, where she nurses him back to health. Unfortunately, Annie just happens to be Paul’s ‘number one fan‘ and upon discovering this is Misery’s final novel, she reveals her instability – before imprisoning him and terrorizing him … ” http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100157/reviews-168

While Witches and Female Demons are both based on man’s fear of women and her sexuality, King’s monster is any woman or man who looses themselves in a world that is often unkind and unforgiving to those living in it. And while it is comforting that this modern monster could be either sex, it is very disconcerting when we realize that it could become someone that might be lurking in our own personal shadows waiting to capture and terrorize any of us.

A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings; but it was the general outline of the whole which made it most shockingly frightful. The Shunned House (1924) H.P. Lovecraft

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On the run from a bank robbery that left several police officers dead, Seth Gecko (George Clooney) and his paranoid, loose-cannon brother, Richard (Quentin Tarantino), hightail it to the Mexican border. Kidnapping preacher Jacob Fuller (Harvey Keitel) and his kids, in the family’s RV and hole up in a topless bar. Unfortunately, the bar also happens to be home base for a gang of vampires, and the brothers and their hostages have to fight their way out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkaveikyikE

It is not because of anything that can be seen or heard or handled, but because of something that is imagined. The place is not good for imagination, and does not bring restful dreams at night.

The Colour Out of Space (1927) H.P. Lovecraft