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Prevail Against Hurtful Spirits This Halloween: How to Carve a Pumpkin

The veil between humans and the spirit world becomes thinnest near the Halloween holiday, according to the Celts. In their eyes, this was the time of year when living humans could best converse with the dead.

Not a one-way street, Halloween also is considered a time when evil spirits can invade this world. The traditional protection for your home and your family comes from a carved pumpkin with a light in it.

However, if you don’t know how to carve a pumpkin you could be in trouble.

General pumpkin carving instructions

• possibly one for each member of the family
• Gather a candle
• Buy the number of pumpkins you require
• Cut a circular hole in each pumpkin
• and spread out newspaper

Given how important it is to protect your home and family from evil spirits, we need to get you on the prescribed pumpkin-carving path as soon as possible. So what you need to do is grab the following items: one candle, a kitchen knife, a newspaper, and one or more pumpkins.

Pumpkin selection is one part of the project not to be taken lightly. Thanks to genetic bio-engineering, there are massive pumpkins, tiny pumpkins, and medium-sized pumpkins that you can choose from. Which will work for you?

In many instances, pumpkin purchases are made for every member of the family. The pumpkin’s size should relate to the relative size of the family member the pumpkin is for: so, if you have a little tiny baby, you get a little tiny pumpkin. Mark the largest pumpkin of all for Dad, the family‘s patriarch.

Your newspapers next should be spread out on the living room floor and the tools you‘ve assembled for the project laid on them. The purpose of the newspaper is to protect the rug or floor from the pumpkin seeds and pulp you are yanking out of the pumpkin. Pumpkin juice can become a hidden enemy, so make sure you lay down plenty of newspaper to protect your carpet.

Grab your kitchen knife and make a circular cut around the gourd stem. With one hand, grab and remove all seeds and other material within the pumpkin. Next, carve out the pumpkin’s eyes, nose, and a mouth. Most people who make jack-o‘-lanterns stick to basic patterns of triangular eyes and noses, plus a mouth with square teeth. Finally, put the lit candle in the pumpkin before the evil spirits come, and now, thank heaven, you know how to carve a pumpkin!

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Woodcarver Fred Myers Presented by Woodcraft