These texts will be familiar to those who’ve attended The Halloween of Cross Bones (1996-2010 and 2015-16) or the October 23rd Vigils which are now held in its place.
Ancestor Souls’ (originally invoked at The Halloween of Crossbones and now at the 23rd October Vigils) is here combined with ‘The Hallowing of Cross Bones Yard’ – to music by Mark Carroll aka Arka (Ominous) – in Martin Scooby’s two minute short version of a full-length 30 minute Samhain mix in the pipeline. Scooby is working with footage filmed around his native Whitby.
Ancestor Souls’ (originally invoked at The Halloween of Crossbones and now at the 23rd October Vigils) is here combined with ‘The Hallowing of Cross Bones Yard’ – to music by Mark Carroll aka Arka (Ominous) – in Martin Scooby’s two minute short version of a full-length 30 minute Samhain mix in the pipeline. Scooby is working with footage filmed around his native Whitby.
SAMHAIN
Here, the veil between the worlds
dissolves:
the living, the dead
share the brew, break the bread.
Ancestor souls
converse and commune,
this samhain night,
by the light of a bone-
white
moon.
THE HALLOWING OF CROSS BONES YARD
Here where the bones are crossed
be hallowed ground.
Here let the names that were lost
Here let the names that were lost
be found.
Shut out in days of old,
the outcast dead…
Here bring them in from the cold
to be watered and fed.
Here let the ties that bind
against forgetfulness
light candles, build shrines
in the wilderness.
(words from ‘Spark In The Dark’ by John Constable)
