Machias' Punishment (split from FF.net restrictions)

*kyabetsu* · 10-21-2002, 01:11 PM

Kya: so that means that one night a year, you can see and speak with the dearly departed.

My grandmother had a shrine in her livingroom and every year she'd set out her father's favorite foods, hot and ready to be eaten at midnight. She'd lay out his old clothes and her mother's pearls with some flowers. We lit candles at dusk and said a novena... um, nine rosaries-worth of prayer... to call our family members home.

By a few moments after midnight, the food was iced cold, the clothes were warmer than the room they sat in, and the flowers looked three days dead.

10-21-2002, 01:11 PM	#11
kyabetsu Foot Elite Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: under my hat Posts: 4,393	Kya: so that means that one night a year, you can see and speak with the dearly departed. My grandmother had a shrine in her livingroom and every year she'd set out her father's favorite foods, hot and ready to be eaten at midnight. She'd lay out his old clothes and her mother's pearls with some flowers. We lit candles at dusk and said a novena... um, nine rosaries-worth of prayer... to call our family members home. By a few moments after midnight, the food was iced cold, the clothes were warmer than the room they sat in, and the flowers looked three days dead.