Who's Ready for Halloween?

[NashVegas]

I admit, I'm not this into it ..

Dear Cecil:

Like all good parents, I mindlessly pass on cultural traditions to my kids and usually don't have a clue where they came from. We decorate a tree in December, hide colored eggs on Easter, and in October we dress up and carve pumpkins, and my kids tape up pictures of witches on broomsticks on the window. I've heard theories about some of these other things, but where did the "witches flying on broomsticks" thing come from? --Jan Rein, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Dear Jan:

You don't want to hear it, mom. Well, maybe you do, but you don't want to tell the kids. As we've learned from our previous forays into folklore, most of these old rituals have something to do with S-E-X. You thought Easter eggs and bunnies as fertility symbols was kinky? You ain't heard nothin' yet.

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[Maple]

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