The most starkly grisly bit of grusomeness seen by The South Bayview Bulldog this season are the two chopped off arms playing a piano at Paul Hahn’s sales and tuning business on Yonge St. at Gibson Ave. Truly horrifying and many giggles all at the same time. The scary demise of Mrs. Filmore and daughter Betsy contrived by the master story teller of Belsize Drive is the challenger. There are many fine pumpkin creations around South Bayview but pumpkins are not necessarily so very fatal. One exception to this is the pumpkin carried by the headless horseman of Washington Irving’s classic woo woo tale, the Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Although the BBC would have us believe that the pumpkin became popular because Irish immigrants used to make lamps out of them, we think the cursed — and fatal — orange gourd hurled by the horseman at Ichabod Crane may have done more to popularize the pumpkin as a demonic essential of Halloween.
