analysis: What About the Halloween Scarecrows – The Ones That Come Alive

Up comes the scarecrow

Notes:

• Scarecrows are a person-like figure that has been used for centuries to scare away crows and other mauranding pests that invade a farmers field.
• You take old clothes, stuff them with hay or other material, tie that clothes together and add a neck with face. You next attached them to a pole or stake, with the arms extended and stationed in the middle of your field or garden.
• The purpose is to create a man-like figure that appears to be tending and working the garden – somone who is on the watch for crows and other birds that may raid a garden for food.
• Some communities may have limited events; other may be more restrictive. But for most, a neighborhood gathering or other in-the-home event may allow you to get dressed up for the occassion.
• Do they work? Perhaps, but not very good. Birds eventually catch on.
• Most likely scarecrows were decorative items and in some instances, used to ward off evil that may impact the seasonal harvest and health of the family.
• INFO: 30 Spectacular Facts About Scarecrows
  INFO: Things you did not know about the scarecrow
• IMAGES: scarecrows in the field
  INFO: 10 Scarecrows for the 21st-Century Farmer

What happened to the scarecrow

• Now for Halloweeen – what happened to the scarecrow?

  It was standing over in the field during the late afternoon. But during the moon-lit night, you notice that the scarecrow was gone but returned again in the early morning.

• The same occurance happened the next night and every night thereafter. Someone might be playing a trick; so you decide to investigate the reoccuing event by spending the night in the field next to the scarecrow – bad decision:

  • Was it a witch:

    there are tales of witches who concoct spells that make the scarecrow to come alive to do the witches nefarious deeds:

  • STORY: the horrifying scarecrow
    YOUTUBE: something wrong with the scarecrow
  • SHOP: witch scarecrows

  • Was it Halloween:

    Halloween is the time when the dead come back from life – it is also the time when scarecrows experience life for the first time:

  • STORY: the scarecrow
    YOUTUBE: Harold The Scarecrow – Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark
  • SHOP: scarry scarecrows

  • Was it aliens:

    you can find stories where aliens from unkown places took the scarecrow to examine life-form on earth:

  • MOVIE: aliens vs acarecrows vs zombies

    YOUTUBE: the cornfield

  • IMAGES: scary scarecrows

  • Was it something else:

    it could be that other forces unknown that bring the scarecrow to life – either for good or for evil The question is what you believe

  • STORY: The Farmer’s Scarecrow
    YOUTUBE: 3 Chilling SCARECROW Horror Stories
  • CAMEFIRE: watch out for scarecrow guarding his field
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• Final Observation:

  So the next time you come across a scarecrow in a field, ask yourself, is that scarecrow really there to keep the crows away or is it there for something else? You may never know. Happy Halloween!

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