Tondeleo: Americans celebrate Halloween in a very big way. To me it is insanity, the amount of money they spend. They decorate their homes with orange lights and simulated cobwebs, and go all out with the costumes and fancy dress. It is definitely a money maker for the merchants. It is nearly as big as Christmas as far as parties and decorations are concerned.
Doc and Marilyn played at a party where there were all sorts of people in fancy dress, and many of them were outfitted as monsters, crime victims covered in blood, and of course, the requisite demons and witches.
During a break, Doc and Marilyn were talking with a woman dressed as a witch, and during the course of the conversation, she told them that she was a “real” witch. Doc told her he wouldn’t bragging about it if he was her. Not about being a witch. But then, again, that was her business.
She went on and on about being a witch, and Doc asked her what she meant by that. She told him that she could cast spells on people.
Doc said that he probably could, too, but that he doesn’t. He said he thought that pretty much anyone could speak for bad things to happen to other people, if they wanted to be mean about it. He said he reckoned there was already enough bad things on the earth without trying to make it even worse.
She said, "I can call on demons to come up here and deal with my enemies."
Doc said that the way he figured it anybody could call demons to do anything, if they really wanted to.
She said that a lot of people were scared of her because she can call on devils.
Doc shook his head and said, that he wasn’t scared if she calls devils, cause he didn’t think demons would pay any attention to her anyway.
He informed her that devils weren’t exactly known for being cooperative. He told her that he liked having FRIENDS that he could call on.
Not only that, why would she want people to be scared of her? It’s hard enough to get people to like you, and he couldn’t imagine trying to get people to be scared of you.
Then he told her that he had to get back to playing his music and he hoped she had a good time and that she would find out how much fun it is to have some friends to call on instead of devils.
Marilyn let her know that devils weren’t very good to have for friends anyway, because for one thing they are invisible and for another, they are nothing but mean. She let her know that Jesus was a better friend, because even though he is invisible, he is nice.
And with that, they began their second song set.
The witch stood there tapping her feet, looking at them with a blank look. I think she was trying to figure out how come they didn’t understand what she was saying, or something like that. I am not too gifted at reading peoples’ facial expressions. But she had one!
Doc told me afterwards that she was probably a pretty nice person who just got hurt a lot and maybe she didn’t like people anymore, or something like that. He said he hoped she could make some friends who would be good to her.
