Thanks for the information, sounds like fun.  When I first came to the U.S. I
saw ornaments of witches on broomsticks called "Kitchen witches".  I guess
someone from Sweden imported the idea.  "Lace content" - some of them had lace
on their petticoats. ;-)
Janice

Ann-Marie L�rdal wrote:

> Hi
> They are kind of witches, I guess I did not find the right word when doing
> the album :-)) Once every year at easter (in Sweden) you go to Bl�kulla (on
> the easter Thursday), you fly on your broom. It is fun now but not in the
> old days when you were burnt just because someone whispered you were a witch
> and had been "seen" going to Bl�kulla.
> Nowadays it it kind of like Halloween but you dress in (I did it more than
> 40 years ago) your mothers old skirt, an apron, paint round roses on your
> cheeks with her lipstick and make freckles with her eyebrow pencil and you
> take an old kettle or something and go out to your neighbours, and others,
> wishing a Happy Easter and get a coin or candy in return, but no tricks if
> you don�t get anything.
>  http://community.webshots.com/user/annma1
>

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Janice Blair
Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA
A mistake is simply another way of doing things. Katherine Graham

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