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Prevail Against Wicked Ghosts This Halloween: How to Shape a Pumpkin

The Celtics of old believed that during Halloween the veil between the spirit world and our world became especially thin. This meant Halloween was the perfect time to make contact with deceased loved ones.

On the other side of the coin, this opened the possibility of evil spirits reaching out to humans at the same time. The symbol to protect you and your family from invading spirits from the dark world is a carved pumpkin with a light inside.

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

General pumpkin carving instructions

• kitchen knife
• Carve desired features in the face(s) of pumpkins
• Reach inside and manually remove seeds and mushy content
• Gather a candle
• and spread out newspaper

The connection between a home not guarded by a lit pumpkin and the dark world are clear, so it‘s imperative that you learn how to carve a pumpkin immediately. So what you need to do is grab the following items: one candle, a kitchen knife, a newspaper, and one or more pumpkins.

Picking the pumpkin is a fairly important endeavor. Thanks to genetic bio-engineering, there are massive pumpkins, tiny pumpkins, and medium-sized pumpkins that you can choose from. What size pumpkin best fits your needs?

Well, it’s often a good idea to get one pumpkin for each member of your family. Roughly correlate the size of the pumpkin with the size of the family member for whom it was purchased. Out of respect, if nothing else, the largest pumpkin should represent Dad.

With that settled, the next thing you need to do is bring all the items into the living room and spread the newspaper all over the floor. The seeds and inner matter you are extracting from the pumpkin can be messy, hence the desirability of the newspaper. Have plenty of newspaper to cover your carpet so that pumpkin juice doesn’t seep through and generate stains.

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. Triangles for eyes and noses and mouths sporting square teeth are common designs for those who carve pumpkins. 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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