Last year I posted this Halloween story about my first grade witch's brew whose rather macabre recipe was published in the local paper - much to my mother's horror.
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If you don't feel like going back and reading this year-old post (though you should, it would make me happy), I will just recap the primary ingredients:
- hair;
- cobwebs;
- lizards and spiders; and
- little kid's kidneys
The last item being the ingredient my dear mother found unacceptably weird and abhorrent for a young child.
Nearly twenty-four Halloween seasons later, we picked up a great book for Max. The book is called Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich by Adam Rex.
Love it! It is a fantastic book.
Anyhoo . . . there is a poem in this book called "The Middlewich Witch-Watchers Club."
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Witch watchers hide in trees and shrubs or settle deep in ditches
And when they spot a witch, they look to see which witch it was
They check inside the Witch Watch Book by Mitchell & von Fuzz
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Today they saw a Speckled Crone
which shrieked while eating files . . .
And then a Frazzled Warthag baking kid and kidney pies.
And then a Frazzled Warthag baking kid and kidney pies.That's right! KID and KIDNEY pies !!! I am not alone! I am not the only weirdo creating imaginary confections made from tender young organ meat. Thank you, thank you, a thousand times, thank you Adam Rex for make me feel like less of a freak show.
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