Not to want holly from the disused graveyard because...

[HughRinal]

It was a Victoria Lunatic asylum and the holly will contain tiny particles of tortured souls who might get me?
Even though it is a fantastc non-prickly tree full of berries that you can't get anywhere else?
It is actually really bothering me because I really want some but am seriously quite scared...

It's unconsecrated ground so I don't think anyone owns it. oooh does this make it worse?

Nickel, if I get hoardes of little matchgirls pressing their see-through faces to my window it will be all your fault.

We all get recycled anyway. The tortured souls will have been broken down into the soil, released into the air by respiration of decomposers etc. You are probably breathing them in as we speak..........

Hugh - I feel your pain.

I suffered a - different, but a tiny bit similar dilemma - Christmas related... and I got loads of people telling me I was a loon. Right here on MN!

I ignored them and did my own sweet thing and, as far as I can tell, I mostly got away with it.

Hugh - my advice to you is to NOT use that holly - every bit of bad luck ou will attribute to having festooned it.

Instead, find something else and go with it, be happy, enjoy!

(hhaaa to all you weirdos who think luck comes willy nilly! tis all attached to Christmas decorations!)

How can a graveyard be disused?

blimey, i thought i was barking!!

So long as you are not defacing a graveyard then why not have some.

I assume she means they aren't putting any new graves in - obviously still "occupied" by the old ones, but not in current active use. Apart from by ghosts

So still used then!

My boss recently told me he lived in an old victorian asylum as a psych student, and there was the ghost of a "patient" who had hidden the birth of her baby from the nurses to avoid having it taken away. She left it in a trunk while she went to work in the laundry during the day. One day, however, she returned to her cell to find the child had suffocated. She killed herself with grief.

He didn't believe it-he's very sober and straight, until one night when he heard a woman's screams coming from an empty corridor.

Particles of tortured souls?

And there was I thinking souls went up to heaven intact.

So they just buried peopel in the asylum grounds?

As a world-renowned expert (from Oxbridge Looniversity) on the molecular disintegration of loons and the subsequent reabsorbtion of the molecules by native plant species, I can confirm that leaving a satuma probably won't work as a peace-offering, as the Victorian loons won't recognise it. I think some walnuts in their shells, twisted in gold tissue paper, would be the best compromise on historical accuracy, biodegradability and festive spirit.

I did not know satsumas were an invention on modern times.
See what you learn on mn.

I have decided against the holly. Just can't do it. I can't.
Now if it were just a 'normal' graveyard....it wouldn't bother me in the slightest!

YANBU but I think that because you make me look sane

Didn'tThinkThatCouldHappenTiggaxx

I'm am 99.99999999999999999999999999% sure that this is completely irrational and you will be fine. I also don't believe in ghosts.

However I wouldn't.

As dp says it sounds like the beginning of a crappy horror movie plot and for the tiny irrational part of me that believes it could happen I wouldn't because I would be too scared.

I know it is silly but I wouldn't. I know rationally nothing would happen. But I wouldn't be able to sleep.

I am a very big wuss though.

You could have it exorcised, I suppose ...

can you imagine what the convo with the vicar would be like?
Glad you are with me Armadillo. I knew it couldn't just be me...
My friend said she ate the blackberries from there, this explains a lot of things...