Witches Stone Nordnes, Halloween stuff, Mongstad

Seeing as it´s nearly midnight and nearing so close to halloween, and seeing that all my months photos have accidentally been disappeared by my camera download, let´s talk witches and stuff to do, halloween-wise, here in Bergen.

Oslo of course has endless halloween stuff to do, but here we have a few things too!

1) On Nordnes, there is the Witches Stone, a monument near the aquariet (aquarium) in remembrance of the nearly 400 women, between about 1500 and 1700, accused of being witches, who were burned at the stake. It´s a very tall skinny stone almost monolith, marked lightly, but not obvious unless you know what to look for.

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2) UIB is having their annual Halloween night at the museum, 6pm til 9pm. Bring your torches (flashlights) as some of the area will be blacked out, for spooky ghostly fun exploring. There will also be pumpkin carving, face painting, ghost stories, and other fun stuff to do. Wear your halloween costumes of course! There´s ghost hunting in amongst the museum´s exhibits! Boo!:)

Location is Bergen Museum.

This year, so far,  the girls and I all have different frilly witchy fairy costumes, and our son has a skeleton type.

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3) Wednesday night we´re having a family "Nightmare Before Christmas" halloween dinner dressing up in costumes, having a halloween dinner, and opening pressies round a halloweeny tree, with lots of homemade decorations. And a few storebought ones, namely the creepy pull-apart spider webbing with spiders etc. Halloween music thanks to youtube and vloggers. Menu still be decided. I like the Martha Stewart pretzel fingers and toes recipe, and also will use some of her decorating ideas for the window panes.

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3) Rosenkrantz Towers at the Fortress Castle, which includes an exhibit on one of the accused witches, Anne Peddersdatter (has different spellings). The dungeon dates from 1270. A quick wiki article, in Norwegian of Anne Peddersdatter.


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4) Mongstad a village which was moved for oil refinery to be built. I thought an appropriate bit of ghost town like story. Before the removal and rehousing, a photography, Hans Kristian Bukholm, took photos of the people and the village, animals, fields, and beautiful rural bucolic setting, before it was covered in concrete and oil refinery works. Today, it is a modern stark contrast with its original life, now a hard, cold, relic of concrete, pipes; a new man-made cityscape, oddly though still beautiful yet in a completely different way.