(I missed all of you last week. It was very busy with my family here from Germany, and I was just worn out. Just had no energy to write about that prosthetic limb, but I’m sure it would have made a good Zing and Zang story. I think I’m back on track now 🙂 )
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“Oh NO! This is too horrible! How can these earth people treat each other in such a terrible way! I want to go home!” Zing trembled with fear and horror as he gazed at the cage.
Zang was a bit more brave. “Zinnia, what is this about? What are those grinning heads hanging from the branch?”
Zinnia spoke softly. “This is Halloween. That is not a real person, but only a dummy. Soon, small children will go around collecting treats from their neighbors. It is called Halloween. Celebrating their dead. Strange, indeed.Grotesque and bizarre.”
Just Writing! 
There are weirder customs. In the UK, we make a facimile of a man, burn him on a fire, and dance round it
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Yes, I’ve heard of that one. Truth is often stranger than fiction. What our world must look like to a couple of innocents like Zing and Zang!
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And then the dummy came alive….!
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🙂
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good grief! what a relief to know it’s not a real person. 🙂
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🙂
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Poor Zing and Zang! They have A LOT to learn.
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Indeed, and some of it doesn’t even make sense to earth people 🙂
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That made me laugh. Thank you.
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Dear Linda,
It would be hard to explain Halloween to someone from another world. Makes me think of E.T. 😉 Cute story.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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I like the extra-terrestrial take on Trick or Treat!
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Thanks, Penny 🙂
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Indeed… Earthlings do have weird customs… and so many that each region knows nothing of the next one so… Z & Z have MUCH to learn…
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And one wonders–what they will do with all that they learn.
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Seriously.
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Lighten up, Zinnia, it’s fun 🙂
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These earthlings are weird indeed.
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Not coming from these parts, I am with Zing and Zang 😀
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Loved your take. Zing and Zang are perhaps more human than the real earthlings.
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Customs can be very strange indeed. I was familiar with Trick or Treat when I came to the southern US, from Up North, but not with trick or trunk, when you decorate the rear end of your car, park in a parking lot ( usually at a church) and hand out treats from there. And there are always plenty of families who choose not to participate for religious reasons, thinking it too Satanic. Try explaining that to a five-year-old. Who just wants candy. 😊
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Lots of controversy over this holiday. The way we observed it when I was a kid was very innocent compared to now. Halloween has become the 2nd highest retail event of the year. And sadly, there is occult activity that we never heard anything about when I was growing up.
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Yeah our customs look very strange from far off perspectives.
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Grotesque and bizarre. But yet we keep doing the good old tradition ‘Trick or Treat’. Nicely done.
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Zing and Zang are finding out that earthlings are very weird. But interesting. Some of them anyway. An enjoyable take on the image..
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Nice take on the prompt. Interestingly we thought alike 🙂
https://trailbrooklane.blogspot.com/2018/07/caged.html
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Interesting piece.
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Some of our customs are indeed bizarre and grotesque.
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I like your take on the prompt–seeing Halloween through the eyes of Zing and Zang! Interesting how it must reflect on us. 🙂
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Love Zinnia’s explanation. I wonder that she makes of our other festivals!
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I’m sure we’ll find out at least about some of them 🙂
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it is a strange custom, but yet, like your story, somehow fun.
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