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Halloween

October 26, 2023 by Lesley Truffle

  Halloween   Halloween is big business and the festivities – which used to begin on Black Friday have morphed into a lengthy festival beginning well before October 31. It’s quite lucrative for those producing plastic pumpkins, synthetic spider webs and all manner of ‘spooky’ Halloween goods. It’s been estimated at least five million Australians … [Read more…]

Posted in: actors, art/theatre event, artists, Historical, Mythology Tagged: All Hallows Eve, Ancient Celts, Ancient Mythology, Celtic, Fire Festivals, Halloween, Halloween traditions, Headless Horsemen, Ireland, Irish, Lesley Truffle, Lesley Truffle Writer, Puća, Puća Festival, Samhain, Trim Castle Ireland

All I want for Christmas

December 19, 2022 by Lesley Truffle

    All I want for Christmas …   ‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there; The children were nestled all snug in their beds; … [Read more…]

Posted in: Historical, Mythology, Observations, Social Comment Tagged: All I want for Christmas is you, Ancient Celts, Ancient Mythology, Celtic, Celtic Druids, Christmas mythology, Christmas myths, Christmas rituals, Christmas traditions, historical, Ireland, Lesley Truffle, Lesley Truffle Writer, Mariah Carey, Mistletoe, Pagan, Pagan festival, Roman Christmas Myths, Saturnalia, Winter Solstice, Xmas

Ma Kelly’s Boy

June 15, 2019 by Lesley Truffle

Ma Kelly’s Boy   ‘Don’t be frightened. Nothing will happen to you. I have a mother of my own.’                      Ned Kelly to Anne Calvert while robbing the National Bank at Euroa.   On November 11 1880, Edward ‘Ned’ Kelly was hanged for murder at Melbourne Goal. A reporter at the time claimed that Mrs … [Read more…]

Posted in: books, Mavericks & Renegades, Melbourne, writers & creatives Tagged: Charles Nettleton, Edward 'Ned' Kelly, Ellen Quinn, Grantlee Kieza, Ireland, Irish Catholics, Kelly, Lesley Truffle, Melbourne, Melbourne Goal, Mrs Ellen Kelly, Mrs Kelly, Ned Kelly, outlaw

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