Will their scary survive?

“Nooo. They never forget or forgive even if you knuckle under. They know I chewed gum in class.” (USPD/Commons.wikimedia.org)

Critical Mass for Halloween?  None such

Once a glimpse of the black outfit could spike fear and cause even adults to have flashbacks, but that may be vanishing.

What’s the point of wearing it for Halloween if the costume has no scary any more?

A fellow blogger recently remembered costumed antics at Halloween in her office. Being in HR and responsible for getting people to follow company policies and rules, she got a kick out of dressing as a Mother Superior complete with taking names and smacking offender’s hands with a ruler.

Hilariously appropriate.

The others got the joke. Then.

Now this is a little chilling, right? (Dutch Nat.Archives/USPD/Commons.wikimedia.org)

How much longer will people get it? The habit of black nun habit?

• Now many never set foot in a church or even know who Noah, Moses, or Cain and Abel were, so the nun context might be completely MIA.
• Somberly robed, stern nuns teaching parochial schools are much less common these days, too. The modernized updated habit is approachable, not dark and forbidding. That traditional whacking knuckles to keep order mostly abandoned. For good reason: kids today do not hesitate to scream “child abuse” and “CPS”.
• Solid, serious nuns are far less visible now. Once they were frequently seen in communities, their roles understood everywhere – including in movies and TV
• But it’s been years since “The Sound of Music” was performed by every secondary school.
• “Bells of St Mary’s” underwhelms the current holiday movie viewers more interested in the glitzy, commercialized, Christmas tales.
• Audiences chuckled at the trouble makers of a girls’ school in “The Trouble with Angels”, but in the ’60’s some could still identify with those classrooms.
• Many laughed as Whoopie hid among nun in the comedies “Sister Act” or “Sister Act 2, Back in the Habit”.  Those nuns were so warm and fuzzy in that movie.

The legendary terrors of real nuns, a casualty of time moving on.

Now, any fear and trembling felt when seeing a nun’s black, flowing habit more likely to be connected to a horror movie than from actual classroom experience or that habit of the ruler.

The black habit is not yet extinct! You can still spot them in remaining environments. Huge list of movies with nuns here.

None gone with the wind any more. (Get the joke here)

Phil, the Philosopher Mouse of the Hedge

Unnatural and scary. Flying, but her Rosary beads or outfit never flowed backwards.What deals did she make with whom – or what?(USPD/IMB screenshot)

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