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Conquer Wicked Spirits This Halloween: How to Shape a Pumpkin

According to Celtic tradition, Halloween is when the spirit world and the world, as humans know it, comes closest together. 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.

Basic how-to’s re: pumpkin carving

• Assemble tools in open space
• Buy the number of pumpkins you require
• Carve desired features in the face(s) of pumpkins
• possibly one for each member of the family
• Cut a circular hole in each pumpkin

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. Start by gathering a kitchen knife, some newspapers, a candle, and one or more pumpkins.

Picking the pumpkin is a fairly important endeavor. From tiny pumpkins to giant versions and everything in between, the options for buying pumpkins never have been greater. What size pumpkin best fits your needs?

It‘s not unusual for individuals to purchase one pumpkin for each member of the family. Roughly correlate the size of the pumpkin with the size of the family member for whom it was purchased. Naturally, Dad would get the biggest pumpkin of all.

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 newspaper is essential because removing seeds from the pumpkin often is a messy affair. 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. Reach your hand in and remove all the squishy pumpkin guts. Again, with your kitchen knife, create eye, nose, and mouth images in the pumpkin. 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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