Holloween....
Gordon Hughes
"Shirley" <bigd...@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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> Does everyone here have this custom of one night dressing the kids up,
Hi Shirley,
In this part of the UK at least, we don't make a big thing of it. Until
a few years ago it was almost unheard of.
Now we may get a few youngsters around, but most parents won't allow it.
(Too risky) More likely to get older children and youths hoping to add to
their pocket money Gordon
>
FJ
wrote:
>Does everyone here have this custom of one night dressing the kids up,
>candy, parties, etc. All Hollow's Eve......Seth I know it was a Pagen
>Ritual that has gotten out of control....just curious to whether we are
>the only ones to go this far with it.....
not done at all in Australia.
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FJ
wrote:
>I decided about 3 years ago (when they found razor blades, pins and some
>substance in the candy and apples being given out) that the grandchildren had
>outgrown this ritual. I tell them if they need the candy bad enough I would by
>them each a bag to stimulate them until the following year. Two years ago I had
>over 120 children show up at my door. Some of them where *BIG* kids that had no
>right to be out and about. They were actually brazen enough to ask me if I had
>any full size candy bars....if I had I would not have given them to them
>anyways. Some of them I did not recognize from our park. I did complain at the
>office the next day .....so they sent out flyers last year and set an age for
>the trick or treaters.....
i'm glad we don't have halloween.
we do enjoy christmas in australia though. it comes at a nice warm
time of the year so heaps of people head down to the beach.
i not sure if the churches shut then but i suppose they run a limited
program.
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phxbrd
The secret to full enjoyment is to buy only candy you like, and buy a lot.
You can't lose.
We have to sit outside for an hour so, just meeting kids as they approach
the house - otherwise, we'd have no time inside. When it tapers off, I go
in, but SW stays on and on....
Ruth Nielsen
"FJ" skrev i en meddelelse
>Shirley wrote:
>
> >Does everyone here have this custom of one night dressing the kids up,
> >candy, parties, etc. All Hollow's Eve......Seth I know it was a Pagen
> >Ritual that has gotten out of control....just curious to whether we are
> >the only ones to go this far with it.....
> not done at all in Australia.
It is almost chocking to hear that people could put razorblades and pins in
the candy for children - my goodnes, I have never heard of it.
And in Denmark we don't have the Halloween-tradition at all. The sunday 6
weeks before the Easter we have in centuries had a day
where all children are dressed like princesses, pirats witches and all
possible things. Then they go from door to door everybody having something
like a can og little box of metal with a slit, where you can put some coins.
Before they go out they have already put some small coins in the box.
When you open the door you will find 3 -5 or 6 mysterious looking children,
some also wearing masks or painted in the face, starting to move the cans
and boxes in a certain rythm and singing:
Cookies up
cookies down
cookies in my stomach
if I get no cookies here
I'll be very noisy...
Before the last 100 years it was a sort of little cakes you would have given
them, but today the tradition is that you put some coins in each
can, and then they give you another song as to thank you.
The whole tradition is called Fastelavn.
It starts about 10 o'clock before lunch. then all the funny dressed children
goes to a place in their own neighbourhood, to "hit the cat off the barrel".
A ton will be hanging in a rope and the kids get a club to
come over and beat the barrel one by one. The one who smash it so it falls
down will be "The Cat King" og queen and a golden crown (of paper ofcourse)
will be put on her/his head.
That is the tradition we have - which looks like Halloween.
Ruth
Ruth Nielsen
"Ruth Nielsen" skrev i en meddelelse
Okay this is about Halloween, so I got to tell you one thing more.
The Halloween is - as I already said not normal nor very known in Denmark.
BUT after we have seen some films - i've heard some of
them are even horror-films, something strange or funny have started here.
Last year a lot of shops selling toys or other things for children
suddenly sent out advertises: Halloweeen, Halloween we have the dresses, we
have the masks and everything for Halloween! ! !
Do somethingelse - let your children celebrate the Halloween.
And all those shops were suddenly full of what they called
halloween-dresses. Plus big orange pumpkins made of plastic. Then a lot of
shops for fruits and vegetables also quickly got plenty of real pumpkins and
wrote: for Halloween for Halloween ...
And what is this?? Nothing but moneymaking.? ? I don't know how much they
sold. I don't know anybody who started to celebrate Halloween here. But
maybe it will come.
We have the Fastelavn, so I don't think we need one more day almost
like Fastelavn - but ...
Ruth
Dixy
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Carpe Diem
"Ruth Nielsen" <el...@io.dk> wrote in message
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> Hi
. I liked the way we celebrated halloween here in Sweden ,calm and
respectful. light candles on the graves of our departed, but now as you say
its just moneymaking scary masks ect. they scare the ----- out of my
grandson.We have taken over a lot of traditions from other countries.I
wonder how it will be like in 10 yrs time?
Bye for now
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