During this time of year it's good to remember that the popular pumpkin spice flavor you find all over North America is also a configuration of protection against evil.

Every ingredient in the traditional Pumpkin spice mixture is a herb or spice used to repel evil or bad luck and invite good luck (like cinnamon).

Thirty or so years ago "Pumpkin spice" was just the term for the spice mixture you usually would add to pumpkin pie but in the last few decades most Pumpkin spice flavored confections, drinks, or deserts would contain some pumpkin and for the last two centuries Irish immigrants in America have used pumpkins to carve Jack-o-lanterns. Jack-o-lanterns were not merely for decoration. They were wards against evil and wandering spirits.

Though originally carved from turnips, Irish immigrants found pumpkin Jack-o-lanterns, to be just as effective if not more so in warding off of evil or wandering spirits. (Pumpkin also tastes better and is easier to carve).

So even the pumpkin when pumpkin is one of the ingredients, is also a protection ward against evil.

The popular flavor of the autumn is a strong protection ward against evil. :-P Now what clever witch went out of their way to shift all of pop culture so that the majority of US and Canadians are drinking or eating, (or decorating with) a protection spell mixture all through the season when spirits wander?