🎃Happy halloween everyone!🎃
Oh yes! It’s that time of year we get to cut loose, eat candy, and dress as the slutty version of whatever you’re most scared of. And costumes you see in the street will range from kind of cute:
To blindingly shit
Through to borderline cursed
I mean wow.
But all of this is a MASSIVE DISTRACTION from the real and TRUE meaning of halloween: the paranormal.
And if you need a refresher on that, why not look back at our history of halloween episode last year? Here’s the shownotes!
And this halloween, I took us to the mother country AKA Northern Ireland.
We talked about Lord Tyrone. If you’re wondering what tyrone looked like in the 1600s, it would have been a bit like this:
And fast forward 400 years, here is tyrone today!
Wow. fascinating.
And on these fertile fields, a Get Rich or Die Tryin’ style story played out, one that would make even 50 cent proud. There must have been no sleep going down because as fifty said: sleep is for those who are broke.
What i’m saying is these two orphans became lords and ladies.
And the HATERs out there (Rory and Dan, basically) will say How do we know Lady Beresford even died at 47?
BUT, here’s like an ancestry.com style record of Lady Beresford.
https://www.geni.com/people/Hon-Nicola-Gorges/6000000010874866135
And if that isn’t science FACT i don’t know what is! Look! It says right there, died at 47!
And you want more evidence? Well I aint got it! Just these various retellings of the story.
https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/famous-irish-ghost-story
http://www.bygonesandbyways.com/folders/customs_and_superstitions/the_beresford_ghost.htm
Unfortunately for the evidence of a ghost withering someones wrist, the only evidence we have is that Rogue from X-men could do it. Is that scientific? Of course not!
But what a shocking revelation huh? I had no idea that ghosts had this effect. I’ll be staying well away from the bastards from now on.
Don’t do it, granny! Here’s what that little girl looked like straight after this photo was taken.
Jesus. Shocking!
Anyway we should talk about Tarot, too! Here is the exact deck I was using on this episode:
Above are the ‘Major Arcana’ of the deck. Oooo. aaaaa.
You can actually buy this deck in most book shops! usually in a spiritual/religion section. If you’re interested in tarot, i really recommend it!
A deck isn’t expensive, and it’s good fun doing readings for friends. Pick it up somewhere like this https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/9780712670579?gC=5a105e8b&gclid=CjwKCAiAt4rfBRBKEiwAC678KQXFDYGT8H5s1FXg69zjbrY-RslwhFGuuIDYoIGF6uCDL90XUnlyBRoCkAoQAvD_BwE
And there are so many variations on decks, here’s a deck made by the guy who started the idea that tarot came from egyptian travellers. the Grand Etteilla deck
And for fans of Adventure Time (!) the artist Jesse Moynihan is creating a deck of tarot, which im excited about, but it’s not finished yet. But here's THE DEVIL card
And if you need help deciphering the cards, there’s a few good websites for researching them. I like https://www.biddytarot.com
Because it’s all open to interpretation! That’s the beauty of the cards. All open to interpretation except the JACKED card that rory got. It’s pretty straightforward.
We of course decided the tarot is REAL, A YES, AND INFALLIBLE. But what do you guys think? Let me know if there was anything else you wanted to know from this episode. I hope you guys enjoyed it! And hope you enjoyed your Halloween, too!
We'll c-ya on Tuesday for another brand-new paranormal tale!
Love, K&R