The Sixteenth Chapel or Mass Hypnosis

Sean Kommer'u's altar ego and twin brother William, (he has taken Maximillian as his cleric name) has come to visit and to celebrate Christmas mass in the family's private chapel.
Family and friends have met up in full for such a rare occasion, crowding the little church.









The altar boy is Minimillian from France, who is spending Christmas with his uncle Arne at Karl Edo Spook's house.



Pater Maximillian speaks about the birth of Christ: "In the time o Caesar Augustus, the Romans ordered a census tae be cairried oot ower the hale country. This happened when Cyrenius wis the heid man O Syria.." His gentle voice and the dense air of the crowded chapel makes Polly Line drowsy and her mind starts to wander. After reading the gospel, the priest begins his sermon about God's love for us. His Scottish accent is mixed in Polly Line's mind with vague memories from last summer. She dreams of happy children and bonfires, and she smiles secretly and feels the heat in her cheeks.

She wakes up suddenly, when the priest raises his voice: "And yer harts are wide open and yer innermost longings are for Him ter see!"

Credits: The clothes of pater Maximillian and Minimillian are made by Cocco! She gave me pater Maximillian for my 40th birtday and I just had to make him a church :-) The chapel is built in lego by me and my children, the stained glass windows are postcards bought in Paris and the white statue of Virgin Mary with baby is also a souvenir from Paris. The Virgin Mary with baby and angels, behind the altar, is bought in a shop in Bergen. The St. Olaf statue is a souvenir from the Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim. Other accessories are ebay finds or bought in St.Olav booklet, Oslo. Birth of Christ text taken from "A Glasgow Bible" by Jamie Stuart.

Gjengangere second-hand shop

ENG: With all the redecorating Nora has done after Spook House opened, she can almost singelhandedly keep a second hand store supplied. Luckily for her, it didn't take long before one opened either and next to Spook House, too, very convenient for Nora indeed! It's called Gjengangere (The revenants), and the owner and manager is Osvald Halving.

NOR: Etter all møbelutskiftingen og oppussingen Nora har satt i gang siden Spook House åpnet, kan hun bortimot egenhendig holde en bruktbutikk forsynt med varer. Heldigvis for henne tok det ikke lang tid før det åpnet en heller, vegg i vegg med Spook House, ganske så hendig for Nora. Den heter Gjengangere, eies og drives av Osvald Halving.

ENG: No sooner has Nora brought some new stuff to the shop, my daughter's doll Carol Line, married to Helmer's brother Henrik, is there to see if there could be something of use for her home.
So the little café in Gjengangere soon became their favourite place for a cup of tea. The café is run by Osvald's industrious wife Martha, who also cleans Nora and Helmer's house. I think she might have given her husband an inside tip of all the old furniture that was piling up, with the sole purpose of being in her way.

NOR: Ikke før har Nora levert noe nytt til bruktbutikken så er min datters dukke Carol Line, gift med Helmers tvillingbror Henrik, på plass for å se om det er noe hun kan bruke i sitt hus, så den lille kafeen i Gjengangere ble fort et yndet møtested for dem. Kafeen drives av Osvalds driftige kone Martha, som også vasker huset til Nora og Helmer. Ikke umulig at hun har tipset mannen om alle de gamle møblene som hopet seg opp hos arbeidsgiverne hennes, uten annen hensikt å gjøre det vanskelig å komme til med støvsugeren.