The Cheshire Cat and His Treasure: Treasure Hunters || yaoiotaku special. 05

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Organized: YO Staff

Original idea: BRIDGET

Graphics: Saga

 

Welcome to YO's Halloween Treasure Hunting!

Ten questions you will have to answer

If the final prize you want to get

Ten questions, ten whose answers

you'll have to find

Before November the 2nd ends.

Everybody gets a chance

The more questions you answer

The bigger the prize you get

But only the one with most right guesses

Gets the treasure YO hides.

If it's the prize what you want to know

Give the Hunting a chance

And wait until all saints

back to their graves they go.

Here are the 10 questions, you can post your answers even if you don't know how to respond to all the 10 questions.

 

 

1) Hello to you on this spooky night

I hope this letter doesn’t come as a fright.

Unpick the tricks and solve the clues

There are treats to be found if you so choose.

So let us begin with clue number one…

Witches fly everywhere on these and they’re good for sweeping up crumbs.

Wait, wait...you thought it’d be that easy?

What it is said brooms were covered with?

 

 

2) Witches, witches dance around their covens

Will Devil come, will Devil come

But…which other Halloween tradition involved dancing?

Trick or treat

Can you guess its original name?

 

 

3) Halloween, Halloween

Strangest sights I’ve ever seen,

Witches hat, coal black cats,

Ghosts and Goblins,

Mice and Rats,

Halloween, Halloween,

Strangest sights I’ve ever seen!

Even its name was strange, “All hollows day”

Irish Celts celebrated it before

Samhain was its name

Just very few know

But, can you tell me other names for this hollows day?

 

 

4) I’m a little pumpkin,

Orange and round.

When I’m sad,

My face wears a frown.

But when I’m happy,

All aglow,

Watch my smile

Just grow and grow.

In Halloween I’m a star

All together with black

But…

What do these colors signify?

 

 

5) Stop on by

For a trick or treat

BBQ and sides

There’ll be a lot to eat

The luncheon begins

At 11am on the dot

Come on get it

While it’s hot!!

Is your mouth watering right now?

Tell me if you dare

What were some items baked into traditional Irish Halloween Báirín Breac?

 

 

6) Wooo...b-kerk, b-kerk. Wooo...?

Wooo...b-kerk, b-kerk. Wooo...?

Against cold meats was he insured?

For frozen chickens he procured -

brought on the illness he endured,

and never was this Bacon cured.

Where in London can we find this poultrygeist?

 

 

7) Bonfire’s burning, Bonfire’s burning,

Getting hotter, Getting hotter,

Fire, fire! Fire, fire!

Rocket’s whizzing, Rocket’s whizzing,

Sparklers fizzing, Sparklers fizzing

Druids dance around one,

To all hollows they salute

With cattle skeletons

Roasting with the cracking sound...

Can you tell me the origin of the word bonfire?

 

 

8) It's Punkie Night tonight

It's Punkie Night tonight

Adam and Eve would not believe

It's Punkie Night tonight

Punkie King and Punkie Queen

Sing a song along

Through the streets of….?

*With vid:

 

 

9) Jack-o-Lantern. . Jack-o-Lantern

You are such a funny sight

As you sit in the window

Looking out at the night

Once you were a yellow pumpkin

Growing on a sturdy vine

Now you are a Jack-o-Lantern

Let the candle light shine.

But what was Jack’s head made of before being a pumpkin?

 

 

10) Tonight is not all fright and fear

A trick or treat is waiting near

The forums holds a sweet surprise

Enter the house and claim your prize.

But before that…

Can you tell me what will you get

If in Mexico the Day of the Dead

You celebrate?

[Kokuran]

my try for answers :-)

 

 

 

 

1) yellow flowers in spring

2) originally known as "souling"

3) Samhain, Calan Gaeaf, all Saints' Day

4) orange: health, happiness, wealth

black: th Unknown, hidden, protection, strenght

5) Usually backed in were a pea, a stick, a piece of cloth, a small coin and a ring.

6) The Courtyard Theatre, London

7) Late Middle English - used to be a large open-air fire used to burn bones

8) Hinton St. George, Somerset

9) Turnips

10) Mexican marigolds, pan de muerto, atole and sugar skulls

 

 

 

[cruciatus]

 

1. The broom shrub predominantly has yellow flowers, in some species they can be white, orange, red, pink or purple flowers.

 

2. Bon Odori

 

3. All Saints' Eve, Allhalloween, Day of the Dead (Dia De Los Muertos), Samhain

 

4. Orange, being the most prevalent autumn tone, is derived from the pumpkin and leaves. Celtics are given the most credit for beginning Samhain (precursor to Halloween) as the festival of the harvest. Therefore orange also signifies strength and endurance which is required during harvest time.

Halloween was once (and still may be in some areas) a festival of the dead. Death is usually associated with darkness and absence of light signified by the color black.

 

5. A pea, a stick, a piece of cloth, a small coin (originally a silver sixpence) and a ring.

 

6. Pond Square, Highgate

 

7. From French 'bon' (good), 'bonne' (bone) in Middle English because of use of bones as fuel.

 

8. Hinton St George, Somerset

 

9. Turnips

 

10. Pan de muerto; calaverita if you trick or treat; sugar skulls.

 

[Ayakashiu]

Here are my answers. ^^

 

 

1. Hallucinogenic concoctions made from plants rich in alcaloids

2. Souling or guising.

3. The Irish Gaelic name for Halloween is Oiche Shamhna and means "eve of Samhain" but beside that, there's the Welsh term Nos Calan Gaeaf (older spelling Nos Calan Gauaf) and All Hallows Eve which means All Saints Eve.

4. Black is considered the symbol of death, while orange is the reflection of the autumn harvest.

5. A pea, a stick, a piece of cloth, a small coin (originally a silver sixpence) and a ring. The items were used as a fortune-telling and held a meaning for the person who got them.

6. London horror festival, it was played in The Courtyard theater in 2011.

7. It derives from the fact that those were the fires in which the bones were burned.

8. The village of Hinton St. George in Somerset, but the custom has also been observed in the neighbouring village of Lopen, Long Sutton and Castle Neroche in the Blackdown Hills.

9. From turnips, because there was no pumpkins in Ireland were the tradition started.

10. Calacas and calaveras (skeletons and skulls) - most popular in the form of sugar skulls or cardboard decorations, pan de muerto, cempasúchil (marigolds, also called the flowers of the dead), atole (or other alcoholic beverages).

 

[itsapanda16]

I'll take a try too. On the side note, I learned a lot. ^^"

 

 

1. They anointed flying ointments on their brooms.

2. Souling & guising, for soul cakes children would beg for souls to return.

3. All Saints Day, All Hallows, Halloween, Allhallowtide, All Hallows Day.

4. Orange is likely represented autumn and ripe pumpkins. Black represented the light of day, when light turns into darkness (dark days of winter). I also read that it could be the remembrance of the Black Death..?

5. Small objects like a pea, a stick, a piece of cloth, a small coin, sultanas, and raisins.

6. Pond Square in London's Highgate

7. Bonefire. Bone + fire. The term originally denoted a large open-air fire on which bones were burned, also one for burning heretics or proscribed literature.

8. Hinton St George, Somerset

9. Turnips

10. Sugar skulls

 

 

 

[xhacura]

Here's mine:

 

1.Broom, Cytisus scoparius

(Most of the species have yellow flowers, but a few have white, orange, red, pink or purple flowers.)

2.Bon odori? (not sure, i actually read this celebration in a manga)

3.All Saints' Day

4.Orange-t is a lively color that celebrates life and the bounty of the Autumn harvest.

Orange is the color of fire cutting through the darkness of night. Orange is warm and positive.

Black- is the color of death and Halloween is a time when the veil between the spirit world and the living is thin.

Historically the Celts and Druids celebrated Samhain and welcomed the spirits of their ancestors.

5.the Somhain are colcannon, a potato dish, and barmbrack, a confection sweeter than a bread but less rich than cake.

6.Pond Square, Highgate

7.from bone + fire. The term originally denoted a large open-air fire on which bones were burned

(sometimes as part of a celebration), also one for burning heretics or proscribed literature. Dr. Johnson accepted the mistaken idea that the word came from French bon ‘good.’

8.The Hinton St. George, Somerset

9.It is Turnips.'cause there is no pumpkins in Ireland when the tradition started.

10.Calaverita, Pan de muerto, Atole, Mexican marigolds and Sugar skulls

 

[kika175]

My answers:

 

 

 

1. flying ointment

2. Souling

3. Allhalloween, All Hallows' Eve or All Saints' Eve

4. black: is considered the symbol of death and orange: is the reflection of the autumn harvest

5. a pea, a stick, a piece of cloth, a small coin (originally a silver sixpence) and a ring

6. Pond Square, Highgate

7. 1550s, from Middle English banefire: originally a fire in which bones were burned

8. Hinton St George Somerset

9. Turnip

10. sugar skulls, pan de muerto

 

[Sai-Miyoshi]

Me ansswers ^^ (aye several answers some times, cause several sources gave different answers, yet i picked ou the ones which occured a couple of times ^^ )

 

 

1. "a pot full of a certain green ointment … composed of herbs such as hemlock, nightshade, henbane, and mandrake" /yelllow fllowers

 

2. Either u gimme a treat or i do a trick/ if i perfome a trick for u, u gime treat? ^^

3. All Hallows Eve/All Saints eve/All saints Day

4. autumn, strength and endurance / deat = darkness and absence of light + approaching

winter

the Celtics and the Druids, with the burning of unbleached beeswax candles (orange) and

ceremonial caskets draped in a black cloth.

5. a pea, a stick, a piece of cloth, a small coin (originally a silver sixpence) and a ring.

6. council house in Brimsdown, Enfield, England

7. bonfires were originally fires in which bones were burned.

8. Hinton St. George, Somerset

9. A turnip

10. sugar skulls and pan de Muertos + extra stuff from trick or treating which was added bu christian etc culture ^^

 

 

[M-jow]

 

1) A Mold called Ergot. Ergot is mentioned in Shakespeare's play, in particular, it is the inevitable central ingredient in the ointment that whiches rubbed their flying broomsticks with.

 

2) Souling. During the medieval practice of souling, poor people would make the rounds begging for food. In return, they offered prayers for the dead on All Souls Day.

 

3) There are manny tumms; Allhallows, All Saintns Eve, Eve of Samhain (Oiche shamhna), All Saints day, All Halloween, and the one I use; The day of the dead

 

4) orange is for autumn harvest. Black represented the death, when lighe tuns into darkness, approaching winter

 

5) a pea, a stick, a piece of cloth, a small silver coin and a ring. some also use sultanas or raisins

 

6) Pond square in london's Highgate

 

7) Bonefire or its original form Bone and Fire was denoted at the time whichs were burned to ashes at the stick

 

8) Hintao St. George, Somerset

 

9) From turnip (Ireland had no pumpkins at that time)

 

10) You can get pan de muerto, sugar skulls, atole ( alcoholic beverages) and marigolds (flowers of the dead)

 

[BRIDGET]

As All Dead’s Day came to an end

It’s time to know the winner

Of this game

But before that happens,

We show you the right answers

 

1) Black Henbane (Hyoscyamus niger), sometimes called stinking nightshade.

Ergot

2) "Souling"

3) Brythonic Calan Gaeaf (in Wales), Kalan Gwav (in Cornwall), and Kalan Goañv (in Brittany).

4) Orange – Harvest, Black – Death.

5) Sticks, Rings, Coins, Peas, Sticks, or piece of cloth.

6) Pond Square, Highgate. London

7) Bone+fire

8) Hinton St George and Lopen in Somerset

9) A turnip

10) Skull shape sugar candies

 

And Now…

Let’s know the prizes

To your right guesses

Each participant gets 200 point for each guessed answer

The winner gets 5000 points + a Halloween card.

Now check the chart and see what you got.

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Points

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M-Jow

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9

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5000 points + Halloween Card

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Ayakashiu

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8

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1600

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Kika175

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8

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1600

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Cruciatus

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7

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1400

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Kokuran

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7

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1400

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MayaUkato09

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7

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1400

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Sai-Miyoshi

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6

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1200

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XHacura

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6

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1200

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Thanks to you all for participating

And giving this Hunting a try

Congratulations to the winner

And all the contestants.

[Karin]

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Congrats! :Gangnam:

[M-jow]

Thanks foxy1