While ghosts enjoy the freedom of being among the people on Halloween, no true ghost haunts on All Souls’ Day. Why? Well because cemeteries, which are normally haunted places, are full of people that day.
At the Wraithmoor, they go caroling on All Souls’ Day. But not the kind you go to on Halloween, a quieter one. The ghosts bake sweet pastries, just like people used to do, and give them to visitors, trick-or-treaters and passers by.
In the evening, they come out with lights for the lantern parade. It’s been that way for a long time. Even my toothy mother remembers baking cookies with her grandmother when she was a child. Grandma even baked flies into it, and that was a real treat for the toothy ghosts.
She immediately decided to bake one for her children. She prepared the dough, added dried flies and was already shaping the dough into knots and rings that symbolize the cycle of life.
Even Daddy remembers from his childhood the celebration of All Saints Day. Especially the lantern parade, where firefighters had to come. He wanted to have the biggest light of all the children. In the end, his whole lantern and its pole burned down and he got scolded for playing with matches. So he decided to make a lantern for his own children out of a little light bulb with batteries, so that the water goblin wouldn’t have to waste water from his pond to put out fire.
Toothy Boo was looking forward to delivering the baked cookies to her grandmothers and aunts and listening to them reminisce about the ghosts who had passed away. That’s what All Saints Day is all about. Remembering the deceased. For example, the great-grandfather of the vampire Sebastian von Nacht, who lived to the amazing age of 156. He might have lived longer if he hadn’t gone out in the sun, convinced that sunglasses were enough.
The only one who wasn’t happy was Chupchip. He wanted to go to the cemetery to haunt people at all costs. So he would sneak out of the house in the evening and go haunting. How did it turn out?
A neighbor who saw Chupchip says he ran out from behind a tree and attacked an old woman. She wasn’t scared of him and hit him several times with a fake flower for disturbing the dead. This was doubly embarrassing, as only live flowers are supposed to be placed on the grave to remind us that life is fleeting.
Daddy, on the other hand, claims that Chupchip didn’t scare the old lady but an old man, and that Chupchip wasn’t hit by a flower but sprinkled by a watering can because Chupchip came in all wet that night.
And Aegon, Chupchip’s classmate and friend, claims that Chupchip didn’t scare anyone, but that he got scared by a ghost who was guarding the local cemetery. Chupchip got scared, fell into a puddle, started to run away, but tripped and rolled in the leaves.
Whatever the case, Chupchip will think twice about haunting people on All Souls’ Day next time. Maybe he’d better help Mommy bake cookies.