(Halloween News) Dead horse and belling ground - Trinidad & Tobago Express
I suppose it had to do with the stories that my family told about ghosts or jumbies, and the plenitude, or one would say panoply, of evil spirits that abounded in the pre-electricity days in our rural village. There were things about brooms in doorways and throwing down salt, opening a bottle of rum and drinking it without throwing some out as a libation to the spirits, and forgetting to light the lamp at six o’clock. It was all right when lighted up on All Saints Night, and I would stand uneasily among the candles waxing warm and place crepe-paper wreaths on the iron grillwork, adorned with spears, but I was not wandering beyond the flickering lights and pretty girls all in a row, not me. The Mayor of the village of Sarpourenx told the 260 people living there that “all persons not having a plot in the cemetery and wishing to be buried in Sarpourenx are forbidden from dying in the parish. More Halloween News