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| March 12, 2012
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Samhain Recipe Ultimate Caramel Apples

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1 cup water 1 cup sugar 1/2 cup heavy cream 10-inch square piece of Styrofoam 6 prescription pills online lolly sticks or small wooden dowels 6 Red Delicious or Golden Delicious apples 3 ounces white chocolate 3 ounces semi-sweet chocolate, finely chopped 1/4 cup chopped nuts In heavy-bottomed saucepan, combine water and sugar. Over low heat, stir mixture gently until sugar is completely dissolved. Increase heat to medium low and cook, without stirring, until mixture is a dark amber colour. Remove from heat and carefully stir in heavy cream (mixture will bubble up and spatter a bit, then subside.) Set aside to cool and thicken. Cover Styrofoam with waxed paper to catch caramel drippings (this will be a stand for caramel apples). Insert lolly stick into bottom centre of apples. Dip top half of each apple into thickened caramel. Insert bottom of lolly stick into Styrofoam, allowing apples to stand upright so caramel runs down sides of each apple. Refrigerate to harden. Meanwhile, melt white chocolate in top of double boiler above gently simmering water; stir until smooth. Transfer melted chocolate to pastry bag fitted with small writing tip. Drizzle thin, random strips of white chocolate over each caramel apple. Repeat melting and drizzling with semi-sweet chocolate. Sprinkle with chopped nuts. Cyber Cauldron Shop Mystical Talismans and Amulets Tetragrammaton to Attract Divine Guidance & Knowledge £7.99 Fortune Talisman for Good Fortune £7.99 Sir Gawain’s Glyph for Stability and Inner Harmony. £11.99 Sigil of Bether – Lapis Lazuli Pendant Prosperity & Abundance £24.99 Charm for Happy

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| January 18, 2012
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Hecates Supper

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On the 13th day of each month it was traditional to provide a plate of food / offerings to the goddess Hecate. These offerings always presented of a plate and left at cross road a sacred place of the goddess Hecate. The offering would be a plate of food.. It was traditional to cook a meal containing the ingredince that would please the Goddess. Hecate’s favourite offering would include, Eggs, Fish (or fish roe)(Red mullet taboo in must cults), Garlic, bread stuff, milk cheese, mushrooms, honey and cake. Other less common offering for the Hecate Supper would include household waste the heart of a black lamb, or dog or puppy. Traditionally the feast or supper is prepared and taken to the cross roads and left at the statue of Hecate Tervia and then you would walk away without looking back, Hecate had many roles and just as many names The Hecate ,Tervia is the goddess of the three roads symbolised by crossroads. The three roads represent birth life and death and related to the midwife aspects of Hecate, her role as protector and goddess of the underworld. The Tervia was all a representation of communications we get the word trivia from Tervia. In Greece it was custom for women from different villages to meet at the Tervia to gossip and share information and news. The special days for hecate are:- Jan and Aug 31st, Nov 16th & 30 and the day before the new moon any one can show Hecate honour by placing a small

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