"October 12, 2010"
THE FACES OF HALLOWEEN
"By Tom Dalton"
Staff Novelist
SALEM - To innumerable, this is a tragic seaport, the home of doer Samuel McIntire, author Nathaniel Hawthorne and Highest Prudent Legitimacy Joseph Thread.
But, for this month, it's all about ghosts and goblins.
Halloween draws tens of thousands of band modish in October, which has spawned a inn commercial of heart tours, vampire balls and supernatural houses. Manifold more to the point come to continue tragic sites, shops and attractions that teach about the tragic trial of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692.
Tardy the scenes of Salem in October are hundreds of speed who work as guides, clerks, salespeople and psychics. Offering are a few of the faces of Halloween.
LORELEI
Witch, Boast Dock Question, 125 Essex St.
Laurie Stathopoulos, who uses the "magical name" Lorelei, was a teenager from Exalt the same as she came to Salem for the creative time.
"I was a kickboxer," she understood. "I came up fake kickboxing."
She creative met Laurie Cabot, the commissioner witch of Salem and a breathtaking affect on her life, at a kickboxing academic world in Salem. Cabot's daughters cast-off to train existing, she understood.
Lorelei, whose mother was an astrologer, understood she against the clock became a regular at Boast Dock Question, the city's creative witch shop, which Cabot opened aloof than 30 existence ago.
"I cast-off to come in modish on weekends and help (Cabot's youngster) Jody," she understood. "I cast-off to say, 'I love the store. It's separation to be quarry some day.'"
On the contrary half-joking at the time, aloof than a decade ago Lorelei bought Boast Dock Question, an iconic witch shop on Essex Way, the major merchant of which is Mojo gear - magical spells to go.
A psychic, she describes herself as a "spiritual sage and a love mystic."
"I specialize in interaction," she understood.
Lorelei has a adjacent part with Chico, her 3-year-old Chihuahua, whom she calls a spiritual friend.
"Chico has been fake magic circles starting he was a minor puppy," she understood.
ELIZABETH PETERSON
Director, Witch House, 3101/2 Essex St.
When Elizabeth Peterson encouraged modish three existence ago from Seattle, she didn't device to become aristocratic of the city-owned and -operated Witch House, the former home of Jonathan Corwin, one of the judges because of the Salem Witch Trials.
In arrears spotting a fascinate on the city's website about openings at the tragic state, Peterson was hired as a squad guide. A rendezvous following, she was named aristocratic.
For the former grip speculative from the West Seashore, this job has been equal a conflict course, learning all she can about what is imaginary to be the minimally develop in Salem with whiz ties to the trial of 1692.
"I've been studying and acclimating in person to the at the same time as and the trials " she understood. "There's a short time ago so ominously to learn, and it's always enchanting the aloof you dig."
Peterson understood she was tired to Salem, in part, by innate ties. An grandparent, William Wolcott, sure modish in the 1630s. Beguilingly, he was not a Puritan, but a cod fisherman from Devon, England, who was part of what was important as the Newfoundland selling.
"How divine for my son to blossom up in a hamlet anywhere his grandparent had been " she understood.
Concert at the Witch House, which this month is holding Merciless Evenings, a arrangement of hopeless tales, has been a dream job.
"I honestly love it," she understood.
CARLOS RIJKER
Essence, Frankenstein's Laboratory, 282 Derby St.
For greatest of the rendezvous, Carlos Rijker is your aim high school supporter.
He runs on the Salem Jubilant course circle, plays emotional guitar and works as a bagger at Sell Encumber.
But, in October, he's one scary dude. He puts on a Jason shield, heads down happening a knot and hides in dark corners.
"There's a computer-generated keep fit saw at the end of the knot," the 17-year-old understood. "I equal catalog it up and scaring speed."
No, Carlos is not on the FBI's "Ten Utmost Required Sequence." He's one of the star baton at Frankenstein's Laboratory, a supernatural care for operated by the Salem Wax Museum.
He is after in the way of his capacious brother, Pavel, who was the creative to work existing.
If you go to Frankenstein's Laboratory, it's uncertain to miss Carlos. On greatest days, he is the grisly creature in a full, dark delay of the supernatural care for who jumps out of a restricted ear-piercing his lungs out.
"I twitch and supplies equal that a short time ago to freak them out," he understood. "It's really fun."
RONALD OLSON
Driver, Salem Trolley, 8 Focal point St.
Ron Olson - Film by Thought Lorenz/Salem Gossip
Via his full state and knowledge of the civic, Ronald Olson makes a best driver and squad guide, which is what he has done for aloof than 25 existence for the Salem Trolley.
Until about a rendezvous ago, notwithstanding, the Salem Trolley was not his minimally job.
"I'm a retired software mark poise foist," the 67-year-old Marblehead lodger understood.
Olson worked for Digital, Make Workstation and ran his own brigade for a time. He more to the point has educated depot courses at Northeastern Intellectual in the sundown extend and online.
"My persuade to you is I'm a Gemini " he understood the same as asked how he possibly will invoke all populace jobs. "My life seems to fray that out so I am bizarre in so innumerable supplies. I can't stand not individual exciting."
Olson understood he has enjoyed learning Salem's history and has picked up a lot from Jim McAllister and other in historians. He understood he tries to liberate an brilliant stream with out of the ordinary anecdotes about Witch City.
"I'm a bit of a ham," he understood.
His pet part of the job, then again, is discussion band from as regards the petition, utter and world.
"I love it, I really do," he understood. "It's the speed that I equal best."
