Slumber Parties Are Witch Gatherings

[Music] slumber parties when I was a kid slumber parties were marketed to us like these sacred rituals of girlhood a strange and mysterious rite of passage that all girls do if there was a cartoon on TV that featured girls there would always be a slumber party episode and as a kid I was fascinated by the concept this Hollywood portrayal of what girls do when they band together in the dead of night and don't get me wrong I saw the hyper girliness of it all make ovaries bullies an excessive amount of giggling but that was just the surface level there was something else between the lines that felt mischievious wicked even but it wasn't really until adulthood that I finally figured out why tell me something when you think of those time-honored traditional slumber party activities which one's come to mind perhaps the game where you stand in front of a mirror and summon an evil spirit Bloody Mary Bloody Mary Bloody Mary or is it the eloquent folding of paper to reveal the future and the fortune teller says yes you will be an author maybe it's the home made potions you put on your face to make yourself more beautiful and then a spoonful of honey and a dash of ginger or perhaps it's performing levitation light as a feather stiff as a board light as a feather stiff as a board now it doesn't all of this sound like witchcraft I am pretty much convinced there's a weird parallel between slumber parties and which gatherings to me there's just a few too many occult themes hidden amongst the Hair Braiding in the pillow fights ghosts for example they tend to come up as a common theme at slumber parties sometimes as ghost stories or scary movies now my regulars on this channel know that I have an affinity for the idea of Spectrals and spirits but my mega fans know that there's one spooky device that I will not touch and that would be a Ouija board you won't find me playing with one of these things even it's commonplace as they are at slumber parties is there someone here with us nothing more girly than opening up a door to the spirit world and provoking whatever is on the other side Bloody Mary is a very popular way of doing this too most of us have heard of this classic childhood test of courage it has many variations but the basic idea is this you get yourself a good old candle or flashlight you stand in front of a mirror in the dark you say Bloody Mary three times and bada-bing bada-boom you got yourself a vengeful spirit in the mirror that may or may not kill you fun for the whole family now if you actually see something in the mirror what's most likely happening is a thing called pareidolia where your brain tries to fill in the gaps when given a vague stimulus it's hard to see in the dim lighting so your brain tries to piece together something familiar it's why people see faces and potato chips and why that cloud looks like a duck we girls also like to practice our fair share of fortune-telling at slumber parties we have many devices to do so paper fortune tellers that we used to call cootie catchers when I was a kid magic 8-balls the game mash which if you didn't know stands for a mansion apartment Shack or house and even the more modern game of Charlie Charlie's to take on a pretty old Spanish paper-and-pencil game called juego de la la posada also played by generations of girls trying to predict the future though I fully admit that despite my best efforts as a kid I don't have much clairvoyance never really saw the whole single workaholic youtuber thing coming speaking of creepy old traditions meant for kids I know most of us internet dwelling mole people are aware of the supposedly dark origins of Archaea crimes like ring-around-the-rosie and Mary Mary quite contrary but my personal favorite straight-up slaps you in the face with brutality no pocketful of posies poetic imagery here I'm talking about the Lizzie Borden skip rope rhyme when she saw what she now let's just contextualize this for a moment here this would be like somebody making up a cheery little kid song about the Manson murders and they say we're the twisted generation so I can't make a video about the creepy things little girls do without mentioning our iconic toy the doll you didn't know the one toy that has documented cases of demonic possession and who else has dolls Oh witches witches have been using dolls called puppets for centuries they're made of a lot of natural materials like carved root potatoes cloth branches and they're used to cast spells on people now admittedly little girls at slumber parties don't normally use their dolls for the dark arts but these things do have a tendency to make us feel uneasy sometimes especially when they're in groups and I think a lot of that has to do with the uncanny valley in which an observer is more repulsed by an inanimate object the closer it resembles a human being just bear in mind that's what little girls have been raised on for centuries the last occult slumber party game that I want to talk about is one that I never actually got to do light as a feather stiff as a board this is the game where you supposedly make a member of your witch Party levitate off the ground one girl lies on her back while everyone else gathers around and puts one or two fingers from each hand underneath her everyone chants light as a feather stiff as a board several times and then counts to three and on three everyone is able to lift her up relatively effortlessly with just their fingers as though she were practically weightless but do be careful with this spell young witches in the event you should drop your levitating friend he powers won't be advanced enough to heal a fractured spine now what's actually happening in this circumstance is simple science with everyone lifting on three the weight is evenly distributed and fingers are a lot stronger than we give them credit for miss busted I think I've made a pretty good case for the idea that we ladies have all secretly been raised as witches but you know what we live in modern times everyone can be witches and have whatever kind of slumber party they want play the spooky witch games or have a last gamer standing smash tournament discuss anime work on a fursuit who cares no rules just what makes you and your friends happy as long as no one's getting hurt for real I don't want to get a letter from a lawyer because one of you dropped someone playing light as a feather got it lawyers use some real dark magic anyways my geeks and creeps thank you so much for tuning in but now I got a tune out bye you

Channel: Let Me Explain Studios

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Keywords: slumber, parties, witch, gatherings, witches, witchcraft, sleepover, Let Me Explain Studios, Rebecca Parham, Halloween, dolls, Lizzie Borden, song, animated, animation, cartoon, funny, creepy, ghosts, paranormal, animator

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Length: 7min 9sec (429 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 29 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/MamaMayi]

It all makes so much sense now! We used to all sit in a circle with the lights out and passed a flashlight to tell either the scariest to ever happen to us or a secret truth about ourselves that nobody knew. Thank you for sharing this video!