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It's an important date and anniversary for me. Nowt to do with pumpkins though.
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| trevor saxe-coburg-gotha wrote: | | M.C wrote: | What are we celebrating, apart from another commercial event? |
True - except that celebration of any event without commercialisation has been impossible since, ooh lets see now, the neolithic period? |
There are still countries that celebrate the dead without the western capitalistic nonsense. Pretty much every Slavic country still does it the old way = go visit your deciesed relatives on the cemetery, put down some flowers, light a candle, reminis, go home.
Begging people for candy, or rather nicely painted eggs, is a Easter custom here and even then, you only bother your relatives and close friends, very rarely you bother complete strangers. Well that and beating women with a wicker stick, while pouring on them the worst smelling perfumes mixed with water. It's got something to do with health and fertility of women. Not the most fecked up custom in Europe, I must say, but still odd.
But, the Western culture is slowly but surly changing even these traditional customs and people start to do dress up, spooky parties, pumpkins and all that. Not calling it Halloween yet, but I'm sure it's just a matter of time.
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There are still countries that celebrate the dead without the western capitalistic nonsense. Pretty much every Slavic country still does it the old way = go visit your deciesed relatives on the cemetery, put down some flowers, light a candle, reminis, go home.
Begging people for candy, or rather nicely painted eggs, is a Easter custom here and even then, you only bother your relatives and close friends, very rarely you bother complete strangers. Well that and beating women with a wicker stick, while pouring on them the worst smelling perfumes mixed with water. It's got something to do with health and fertility of women. Not the most fecked up custom in Europe, I must say, but still odd.
But, the Western culture is slowly but surly changing even these traditional customs and people start to do dress up, spooky parties, pumpkins and all that. Not calling it Halloween yet, but I'm sure it's just a matter of time. |
Sorry but I have to ask are you living in a cave somewhere in Krkonoše?
Because I've lived in Prague,Brno and Bratislava in 1990s and pretty much everybody was dressing up and knowing what is Halloween there
Good excuse to dress up and get drunk
Pretty much every Slavic country does it this way if you are town boy like me.
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| Val wrote: | Sorry but I have to ask are you living in a cave somewhere in Krkonoše?
Because I've lived in Prague,Brno and Bratislava in 1990s and pretty much everybody was dressing up and knowing what is Halloween there
Good excuse to dress up and get drunk
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Ostrava,
Everybody? I would not say so. People do know what Halloween is, especially young people and children, but not even once in my whole life we celebrated Halloween the western way (bagging for candy, pumpking carving, spooky decorations...). That sure does not mean there are no Halloween themed parties and shops are not trying to milk this, but that's just a few ''cool'' people. Especially university students have Halloween themed parties.
What you call ''Halloween'', is in the Land of Beer just a commemoration of all the dead.
There is the St. Nicholas day, that we do celebrate. Pretty much St. Nick, a devil and angel walk around the town and check whether children were good or bad. If they were good, they get some sweets, mostly after the children say a short poem. Bad children end up in the devil's sack. But that's 6th of December. There are St. Nicholas themed parties and they are very popular. Wasn't that what you've seen? Many even hire 3 people to play St. Nicholas, devil and angel, to come to their house and scare their children. They even do this in primary schools, I remember some of my school mates were scared to death when the devil walked in and started rattling some chains and doing all the noises. 
Amongs other customs, people also ''celebrate'' the St. Patrick's day. The only reason why they even know about it, is the Jameson's ad every single year and then Tv shows and Films. No body dresses in green, they just get shitfaced. But then, people who enjoy getting drunk, do so every friday and saturday, regardless of the calendar. And yet again, mostly students do have a St. Patrick's day themed parties, some pubs also have this theme.
On a quite different note, I even met people who celebrate the 4th of July, even though they've never left the country and have no relatives in the US of A. 
Lastly, good excuse to dress up and get drunk? We are people of the Land of Beer, we do not see alcohol as something to frown upon. Look at our president.
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but not even once in my whole life we celebrated Halloween |
Is this because you live a little too close to Transylvania and people generally walk around pointing the evil eye sign, and are a bit worried about what they might invoke?
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