Sunday, October 30, 2005

Burning The Wicker Man

We took a trip to St Fagans yesterday, where they were holding all sorts of Halloween festivities and the now traditional Wicker Man burning. No human or animal sacrifices involved, and by the look of him, very little effort either.

I've never been to one before so my excitment was high, expecting something like the one in the excellent Wicker Man film. Instead it was a big stick with some twigs sticking out... Still, it went up well enough, despite the dreadful weather, and Elis was impressed with it, you'll spot there was quite a big crowd there also.

For your entertainment, some photos from the day, hover for more detail.

Been far? No, Just Roman around...

Celtic Pagan bloke gives us all a history lesson.

Burn Wicker Man! Burn!

Catching nice now

The audience looks on...

Dad! Call the fire brigade!

Unfortunately, Edward Woodward was not available to reprise his famous role

Another shot of the audience

The Pagans looked at Derek, annoyed he'd forgotten the wild boar kebabs to burn on the bonfire

Bobbing for apples in the air

Posted by Dio Bach at 23:47

4 Comments:

RR said...: What a fantastic day. You reminded me of two things. The great film "The Wicker Man" which I only managed to see on TV about a year or so ago and one of my all time favourite jokes: (which is definitely better vocally - but here goes)

Why does Edward Woodward have so many "d's" in his name........................... becasue if he didn't he'd be ewarwoowa (all in the way you say it and takes me back to a very drunken night in my teens with an old school friend); 7:51 PM
Dio Bach said...: Haha! Excellent; 12:51 PM
holly said...: Hahaha!

And yeah, that's a pretty sad wicker man. I'd burn it too.; 8:52 PM
Rhys Wynne said...: I thought this might have something to do with the new wikablog. Oh well; 1:07 PM