Taking the Pez out of it.

About ten years ago, I had some termites dig into some floorboards and took out a bunch of Pez dispensers as well. That adventure was regaled here. Thanks to the humidity and since I never learn from my mistakes, some of the candies melted yet again, destroying another batch of Pez! 

Poor ET!

Here are all of them, most of them didn't survive the great Pez meltdown!

 

So rather than worry about another "I'm melting!" situation, I trashed all the candies and kept the dispensers. Thus any worth they might have once had has been diminished by 90%.

 

Hopefully these two en-wrapped in plastic shall survive the next Apocalypse.

Now that I have them all out of their packaging, I still need to figure out how to display them...

 I only have a couple of the vintage Halloween ones. Guess what you can now get via Gatcha machines!

 Puny Pez! I only bought one (so far), the witch with a pink hat.

 

 

Not quite a witch, rather a Demon Woman affiliated with Autumn leaves is today's Oni. Her name is 紅葉 (Momiji), born to human parents, and was the fairest in the land. She tried to curse and kill the wife of her aristocratic employer and was therefore banished to Mount Togakushi in Nagano Prefecture. I'm hazy on this but her bad deeds transformed her into an ogre (Oni). She liked to disguise herself as maple leaves and torment the locals by raining fire and stirring up rivers. She pissed off Koremochi who prayed to the gods for help and ended up decapitating her. (Lots of Oni decapitation in this book.)

 

 

You'll need squint or get a magnifying glass to read that.

 Here's a little Kabuki play about Momiji!

I'm driving to Kitakami tomorrow for a wedding, hopefully en route back, I'll get a chance to see some foliage.

I'm taking these candies to give to my Wedding Singers tomorrow.

 

Hopefully I'll be back in time to watch a spooky movie, nothing tonight, alas.

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