oldbastard101:

witchy-stuffss:

transistorxiii:

friendly reminder: this year, halloween is on a wednesday

Ahh…. I dont get the symbolism behind this?

No worries, we… probably do.

Historically, nothing in terms of celebration of the actual holiday- the closest Norse festival to that time was probably Dísablót, which is semi-spooky in some regards but not really. But this is Odin, so we’re talking about a gentleman who goes by a number of very interesting aliases, including Yggr (Terror), Grímnir (masked/shadowed/hooded face), and Draugadróttinn (lord/chief of the undead) who enjoys wandering around in disguise and often taking stuff from people. Usually a little more than candy, but I guess you could reasonably end up at Billingr’s house for Trick or Treating, too. I don’t know your life.

That, and while it might be somewhere closer to 101.5 given that these are later folkloric roles(read: probably not pre-Christian, Viking age beliefs, and not in the Eddas/sagas), the Old Bastard is said to have a place at the front of the Wild Hunt, as well as actually being the Norse deity to get most conflated with the devil in later interpretatio Christiana. (This is a paper about him allegedly showing up at a crossroads from a 1484 Swedish trial, too, if you’re interested.)

So depending on how you spend your Halloweens, there are a lot of options for modern associations, here. 

Also the basic facts that he’s a charmingly creepy sorcerer who wanders around with two ravens, two wolves, talks to dead guys and severed heads, inspires a lot of terror and poetry… eh, you see what we’re getting at.