Outandabout-Magazine-Oct-issue-191
Autumn in Costa Blanca is cool at night at amazingly hot during the day, there is always time to find a nice quiet cool place to read the latest edition of Out and About magazine which is all about what's going on locally with restaurants, bars, and entertainment. During autumn you can enjoy so much without having to worry too much about the heat and that's why we see more visitors from the UK and Norway than any other time of year.
Autumn in Costa Blanca is cool at night at amazingly hot during the day, there is always time to find a nice quiet cool place to read the latest edition of Out and About magazine which is all about what's going on locally with restaurants, bars, and entertainment. During autumn you can enjoy so much without having to worry too much about the heat and that's why we see more visitors from the UK and Norway than any other time of year.
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OCTOBER 2021 | 59<br />
The House of Seven Chimneys, Madrid. It is said that the<br />
spirit of a beautiful lady dressed in white and accompanied<br />
by a strike torch between the chimneys of the building every<br />
night … Apparently, Dona Elena, which she was mistress<br />
of King Felipe II, he died in mysterious circumstances and<br />
his body was never found. But nevertheless, is not the only<br />
walking on the other side and another young woman who<br />
committed suicide on the wedding night of their marriage<br />
of convenience with an elderly wealthy and now travels the<br />
corners of this haunted house clinking coins that King, who<br />
was also a lover, He had given her.<br />
IF spiders, ghosts and things that go bump in the night<br />
don’t scare you off, join the queue to splash €16 million on<br />
Spain’s most haunted house.<br />
The Cortijo Jurado in Malaga, which has captured the<br />
attention of paranormal experts internationally, is now<br />
up for sale. The imposing 19th century mansion perches<br />
alongside the A357 Campanillas road in Malaga province<br />
and was built with 365 windows, one for every day of the<br />
year. Constructed by the Heredia family in the 1830s, legend<br />
has it that numerous unspeakable crimes, kidnappings<br />
and tortures took place before victims’ bodies were buried<br />
within the building.<br />
Halloween is the evening before the Christian holy days<br />
of All Hallows’ Day of All Saints day on 1 November and<br />
All Souls’ Day on 2 November, thus giving the holiday on<br />
31 <strong>Oct</strong>ober the full name of All Hallows’ Eve (meaning the<br />
evening before All Hallows’ Day).<br />
How did it start Halloween? Halloween has its roots in<br />
the ancient, pre-Christian Celtic festival of Samhain, which<br />
was celebrated on the night of <strong>Oct</strong>ober 31. The Celts, who<br />
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lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland, the<br />
United Kingdom and northern France, believed that the<br />
dead returned to earth on the Celtic (Old Irish) festival of<br />
Samhain. It was the first and most important of the four<br />
quarter days in the medieval Gaelic calendar.<br />
It also marked the end of the harvest season and beginning<br />
of winter or the darker half’ of the year. At Samhain, it was<br />
believed that the Aos Sí needed to be propitiated to ensure<br />
that the people and their livestock survived the winter.<br />
Offerings of food and drink, or portions of the crops, were<br />
left for the Aos Sí. The souls of the dead were also said to<br />
revisit their homes. The belief that the souls of the dead<br />
return home on one night or day of the year seems to have<br />
ancient origins and is found in many cultures throughout<br />
the world.<br />
Masks and costumes were worn in an attempt to mimic<br />
the evil spirits or appease them. At Halloween, yards and<br />
public spaces may be decorated with traditionally macabre<br />
symbols including witches, skeletons, cobwebs, and<br />
headstones.<br />
In Ireland and Scotland, the turnip has traditionally<br />
been carved during Halloween, but immigrants to North<br />
America used the native pumpkin, which is both much<br />
softer and much larger – making it easier to carve than a<br />
turnip. Subsequently, the mass marketing of various size<br />
pumpkins in autumn, in both the corporate and local<br />
markets, has made pumpkins universally available for this<br />
purpose.<br />
For me an evening celebrating in a local restaurant<br />
decorated with the usual Halloween features and adults<br />
dressed in witches’ costumes is a fun night ha!<br />
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