Toggle Side Panel
Occult World
Occult World
Close search

Burning the Reekie Mehr

lux-ferre
Lux Ferre 30 October 2022

“Burning the Reekie Mehr”—A Scottish Halloween PRANKING custom in which a CABBAGE or KALE stalk is scooped out and filled with tow (the “mehr”). One end is lit and placed up against the keyhole on a door, then blowing on the other end will send plumes of smoke into the house.

Pranksters occasionally followed this up with using turf to plug up the chimney, creating a house full of smoke.

SOURCE:

The Halloween Encyclopedia Second Edition written by Lisa Morton © 2011 Lisa Morton. All rights reserved

Categories: Halloween

Related Articles

Cabbages

Cabbages (see also KALE)—Cabbage is one of the most important FOOD items associated with Halloween, especially in Scotland. This folk rhyme even seems to make…

lux-ferre
Lux Ferre 30 October 2022

Candles

Candles—Candles are one of the few constants in all versions of Halloween, at all times and all places; even in twenty-first century America, no house…

lux-ferre
Lux Ferre 30 October 2022

Bonfires

Bonfires— Once one of the most popular Halloween celebrations throughout the British Isles, bonfires are now confined largely to civil CELEBRATIONS or GUY FAWKES NIGHT.…

lux-ferre
Lux Ferre 26 October 2022

Fairies

Fairies are beings who occupy a middle realm between Earth and heaven. Fairies have magical powers and aresometimes associated with Demons and Fallen Angels. In…

lux-ferre
Lux Ferre 25 July 2017

Review My Order

0

Subtotal

Taxes & shipping calculated at checkout

Checkout