This is supposed to be a Halloween witch!

oh, that witch is very cute!

I thought that once we are dead then that’s it!

NotSpaghetti

No problem!
I just went back to check and misread it at first too!

Lol. Must be our Catholic education.

No problem!
I just went back to check and misread it at first too!

theworriedwell

NotSpaghetti

Karen22
"Halloween" is linked to All Saints Day with "All Hallows" in Old English meaning "the feast of the saints."

"Hallow" means to make holy and so the evening before the saints are venerated/made holy is "All Hallows Eve".
All Saints day is November 1st.
The Christian church has taken over the earlier rituals and made them their own.
I expect you know this really?

I went to a Catholic school and we had 3 days of special prayers starting on the day before All Hallows/All Saints day.

"Hallowed" is used in The Lord's Prayer.
It doesn't have to be dark.

I also went to a Catholic school. We recognised the 3 days as All Hallows Eve (Halloween) All Saints day and then All Souls Day. Did you not celebrate All Souls Day, the day when we remember the faithful departed?

Sorry misread that, I thought you were saying the three days started the day before All Hallows Eve not All Hallows Day.

I need to go to specsavers!

NotSpaghetti

Karen22
"Halloween" is linked to All Saints Day with "All Hallows" in Old English meaning "the feast of the saints."

"Hallow" means to make holy and so the evening before the saints are venerated/made holy is "All Hallows Eve".
All Saints day is November 1st.
The Christian church has taken over the earlier rituals and made them their own.
I expect you know this really?

I went to a Catholic school and we had 3 days of special prayers starting on the day before All Hallows/All Saints day.

"Hallowed" is used in The Lord's Prayer.
It doesn't have to be dark.

I also went to a Catholic school. We recognised the 3 days as All Hallows Eve (Halloween) All Saints day and then All Souls Day. Did you not celebrate All Souls Day, the day when we remember the faithful departed?

Karen22
"Halloween" is linked to All Saints Day with "All Hallows" in Old English meaning "the feast of the saints."

"Hallow" means to make holy and so the evening before the saints are venerated/made holy is "All Hallows Eve".
All Saints day is November 1st.
The Christian church has taken over the earlier rituals and made them their own.
I expect you know this really?

I went to a Catholic school and we had 3 days of special prayers starting on the day before All Hallows/All Saints day.

"Hallowed" is used in The Lord's Prayer.
It doesn't have to be dark.

Yes I certainly do, there's a heaven and a hell and I believe once you die there's no coming back

Karen22

I don't believe in Halloween, why celebrate something that's so dark ? People think it's harmless and a bit of fun I totally disagree . We should be teaching our children the beauty of light and Jesus Christ

Do you believe in an afterlife?

the origins of Halloween go back thousands of years to the Celtic celebration of Samhain (pronounced "sow-win"), a festival that marked the end of the harvest season and ushered in a new year. During Samhain, the veil between the worlds of the living and the dead was thought to be especially thin, so people could communicate with loved ones who had passed on.

I don't believe in Halloween, why celebrate something that's so dark ? People think it's harmless and a bit of fun I totally disagree . We should be teaching our children the beauty of light and Jesus Christ

She must be a white witch. 🙂

She looks sweet!

I think she's very, very cute and as others have said a changing the colours to darker ones could make her a 'wicked' witch.

I recently found my old witch's hat in the attic. It was made mainly of felt and cardboard and worn when we had our Halloween parties in the garden for the children (they never did trick-or-treating either). I remember dying a sheet black to make my dress and cloak (and wearing black thermals underneath - November is cold!). The party spread over three gardens and my neighbours dressed up too, as did all our children. Sadly 40 years later the hat is mouldy and the cardboard disintegrating 🥲

I don’t like Halloween either and definitely do not believe in trick or treating
That little witch is gorgeous don’t make it a scary one it’s lovely as it is

MissAdventure

Sarnia

Today's little ones need a dose of Baba Yaga! For those who weren't read her blood curdling tales at bedtime, she was a witch in Russian folklore given to frying and eating small children with her iron teeth. Just the thing to send you off to a peaceful sleep. My book even had a picture of her as if my imagination didn't conjure up enough horrors.

Did she live, or fly in a pestle and mortar?

She did fly in a pestle and mortar! I'm so pleased someone else remembers her. Most people give me blank looks of I mention Baba Yaga. [grin}

Witches are about herbs, healing and the strength and goodness of nature, and about not harming others. They're not evil. Even Halloween itself wasn't originally meant to be about evil and fear.

I can't stand Halloween but I think she's adorable!

DeeDe - I don't like "trick or treating" but the concept of dying and rising again, good triumphant over evil and acknowledgeing and overcoming darkness are not exactly new ideas!

This was the original cover of the book our youngest enjoyed Nannan2 - she does have small heels but also very big buckles.

loripol

I think she's supposed to be a child trick-or-treater with a pumpkin shaped bucket for treats?
She's very cute!

The pattern does say she’s a Halloween witch!

Must say that even when much littler my Gdd1 would have scorned any witch outfit that wasn’t black! I had to make her one when she was 5 (nothing in the shops to buy in Oman) inc. the pointy hat and ‘brooming’ stick, as she called it. 🎃

Maggiemaybe

I do too. Just right for a toddler before they get into the scary stuff.

The scary stuff should go back to America where it came from. Much more fun "snatch apple night" and "apple bobbing" that we had when I was a child

I think she is lovely

Maybe a bit more witch like in black, but I think it's cute! Perhaps find a pattern for a cat, cauldron and broom stick too.

Older daughter fearless around all things Halloween, younger daughter terrified of everything so this would have been a useful little toy.

Wish I could knit - so cute! ❤️🧙🏻