The Spurious Nib has never been short on tales.
We have tuned up a few just for you on this Halloween.
A spurious folk tale from Westchester County, New York includes a rather curious suggestion. If one should float out to the middle of the Tappan Zee in a coracle, on Halloween, at precisely 11:31 p.m. you can hear Washington Irving, Jesse Merwin, and Ichabod Crane singing, “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes!”
Another spurious folk tale comes from the Westminster Church in Baltimore. If you hop around Edgar Allan Poe’s grave marker on your left foot while holding a bottle of Irish whiskey in you right hand and scream, “Tamerlane” three times, you will hear Poe singing, "There Is a Tavern in the Town."
It is impossible to believe that Alexander Graham Bell has anything to do with Halloween folk tales but that will not deter the Spurious Nib!
If you dial 666 (any time between 9pm and 11:59 pm Eastern Standard Time) you can hear Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson sing, “My Bonnie lies over the ocean.”
And one more spurious folk tale.
Every Halloween Pilgrims in Wittenberg, Germany insist you can summon Johann Tetzel by drinking three large lagers, knocking on the Reformation Memorial Church door thirteen times and then singing a rousing version of, “95 Theses Nailed On the Door” to the tune of, “99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall”
