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 > -- Janice Blair Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA A mistake is simply another way of doing things. Katherine Graham - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
