Wood spirit coming to life?

BobD · #1 10-29-2004, 07:45 AM

Hi gang,
Some of you have a lot more experience with this than I do, so... here goes...I'm a little ashamed to admit this...

We're working on a book on carving greenmen. Our production department had a wood spirit carved into a walking stick. When they left last night, it was proped into a corner of one cubical. When we came in this morning, it was in the middle of the floor--across the room...

Do wood spirits often get bored with their view and change it? Should we be afraid to move it?

Bob

#2 10-29-2004, 08:20 AM

It is that time of year and the moon has been full. I'd keep my eyes on it

Dale

BobD · #3 10-29-2004, 08:26 AM

Our office in in an old tobacco barn that was once a whiskey distillery. One of our production guys thinks it's a whiskey ghost--a guy who drank himself to death here in the office...see how urban legends start...

Bob

#4 10-29-2004, 08:33 AM

I had a 'potential' walking stick that I proped beside a large oak in the back yard. I couldn't decide what to carve on it and, well, sort of forgot about it. About a month ago, I noticed it on the ground next to the tree, so I proped it back up....no big deal. Well, now I do the same thing each week - each time it gets farther from the big oak!!!!? On Wednesday, it was about 15 feet from the tree. It's almost a game now, but I wonder who I am playing with.......

#5 10-29-2004, 08:40 AM

Next time rather than stand the sticks up lay them down, wait and see if they stand up, if they do I wouldn't tell anyone and I'd leave.

#6 10-29-2004, 10:40 AM

8) I'd get rid of it.... I'd cut it up in little pieces and carve it into a whole bunch of woodspirit caricatures.

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Art

squbrigg · #7 10-29-2004, 10:45 AM

Ah lad....you got a spirit sharing your space. Like DaleO says, it is that time of year and a full moon last night, or night before....so your friend is trying to tell you something!

As a sailor.....I take my superstitions seriously! As a lad who was born on Halloween at 11:40 PM......it comes natural!!! (My family always said that it answered a lot of unusual questions about me! )

Bob

BobD · #8 10-29-2004, 11:02 AM

Well,
He was staring at the color copier that we were having a lot of problems with, so maybe...

BobD · #9 10-29-2004, 11:39 AM

By the way Bob,
Did you see any of the famous ghost ships? Now that would be an interesting model, Hummm

Bob

#10 10-29-2004, 12:37 PM

The Celtic belief was that the veil between the spirit and human worlds was most penetrable at and near the time we know as Halloween.
Didn't Rod Serling write a Twilight Zone about something like this?
KK