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Leave a Light On: Samhain, swede lanterns & the thin veil | Spilling the Tea Ep 3
Every Gen X childhood has a vegetable it still bears a grudge against.
Mine is the swede. Forget the pumpkin-carving kits, battery-operated tea lights and inflatable skeletons from B&M. Halloween in seventies and eighties Britain involved a root vegetable with the structural integrity of reinforced concrete and a parent wielding a bread knife in circumstances that would now trigger a safeguarding referral. A swede the size of a toddler’s head. Purple shoulders. Hairy roots. Flesh apparently designed to withstand a direct nuclear strike.
You hacked. You scraped. You swore. Eventually, after…
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