KrystinaKipp's Dreams, Lore, and Spooky things

My dream started with me and my boyfriend Aaron searching on a buy and sell website called Kijiji; It is a sort of Crags list only it is more Canadian.  [Warning before we go any further that as the story goes on it gets a little graphic, please be warned of this as a trigger.] We like paranormal stuff so we were looking for antique items that could potentially be haunted. (That is not what this story is about honestly just setting the mood). So we find this interesting seller on Kijiji and they say that we have to go to such and such a property to see his crazy antique items. Like any Kijiji encounter, this is normal, to go to some random person's property to look over items people may have for sale. We made our way to this strangers house. When we got there, again it was normal. Things were slightly dusty though it seemed that whoever lived there did not like to dust. The air was cold outside since it was around the time of autumn in Canada. The air in the house w

On this day of green, driving around and seeing people in pubs with rosy cheeks and shamrock beers in hand. I have a few questions, why is this a celebration? Where did it come from? What are leprechauns? And what is the history behind each thing? I did some research so that my readers and I will have some answers on some of these stories. (the first bit looks into the religious aspect of it, but the fun non-biblical stories are farther down the page.) The history of St. Patrick himself: Who was he? March 17th is St. Patricks day, but it also marks the day that St. Patrick aka Patricius (in his writings) had passed away. He was not Irish, and he did not start off as a devout Christian. When he was no more than the age is 16 he was taken away from his family and friends to Ireland where he was to work as a slave. In this story he claims that a voice came to him in his sleep, maybe it was angels or God. It helped him escape the clutches of his captures and brought him back to hi