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When did 31st October become such a public big deal
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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OMG... I went today to get a few bits for my daughter for a party she is going to tmw... Everywhere that sold anything even remotely related to Halloween was packed.
So when did it suddenly kick off.. Seemed bigger this year than I ever remember...
I was amusing myself thinking that I bet half the people had no idea why there is even a festival on that date...
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Back in Celtic times if you want the truth, the church tried to make us tone it down for a bit, but we got round it by moving it a couple of days later and pretending we were celebrating Parliament not getting blown up.
Have you never wondered why we have bonfires on bonfire night?
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"Back in Celtic times if you want the truth, the church tried to make us tone it down for a bit, but we got round it by moving it a couple of days later and pretending we were celebrating Parliament not getting blown up.
Have you never wondered why we have bonfires on bonfire night?
Mr ddc"
I thought it had something to do with ceremonially burning Catholics? |
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"Back in Celtic times if you want the truth, the church tried to make us tone it down for a bit, but we got round it by moving it a couple of days later and pretending we were celebrating Parliament not getting blown up.
Have you never wondered why we have bonfires on bonfire night?
Mr ddc
I thought it had something to do with ceremonially burning Catholics?"
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We never burnt Catholics, we chopped their heads off.
The Catholics burnt Protestants, but Guy Fawkes was a Catholic. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Back in Celtic times if you want the truth, the church tried to make us tone it down for a bit, but we got round it by moving it a couple of days later and pretending we were celebrating Parliament not getting blown up.
Have you never wondered why we have bonfires on bonfire night?
Mr ddc
I thought it had something to do with ceremonially burning Catholics?
No
We never burnt Catholics, we chopped their heads off.
The Catholics burnt Protestants, but Guy Fawkes was a Catholic."
The church certainly liked to burn people  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Back in Celtic times if you want the truth, the church tried to make us tone it down for a bit, but we got round it by moving it a couple of days later and pretending we were celebrating Parliament not getting blown up.
Have you never wondered why we have bonfires on bonfire night?
Mr ddc"
On the very night that the Gunpowder Plot was foiled, on November 5th, 1605, bonfires were set alight to celebrate the safety of the King. Since then, November 5th has become known as Bonfire Night. The event is commemorated every year with fireworks and burning effigies of Guy Fawkes on a bonfire |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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IT used to be turnips that were carved... but when the Irish settled in America they were hard to find.. 
Most of what the general public celebrates now is a mix and mash of different beliefs for this time of year. |
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"Back in Celtic times if you want the truth, the church tried to make us tone it down for a bit, but we got round it by moving it a couple of days later and pretending we were celebrating Parliament not getting blown up.
Have you never wondered why we have bonfires on bonfire night?
Mr ddc
On the very night that the Gunpowder Plot was foiled, on November 5th, 1605, bonfires were set alight to celebrate the safety of the King. Since then, November 5th has become known as Bonfire Night. The event is commemorated every year with fireworks and burning effigies of Guy Fawkes on a bonfire"
Nah, it only became nationwide after the act of parliament making it so.
Lets not forget, this was a time when it was iIlegal to celebrate birthdays and Christmas. So it was a bit of a coup to be able to argue to reinstate the centuries old traditions of All Hallows Eve/Samhain.
All the parts of it (Hog roasts, bonfires, toffee apples, apple bobbing, ghosts) make sense when set in the original traditions |
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By *harpDressed ManMan
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Since when was a festival, appropriated by Christianity in the middle ages from either Pagan, Roman or Celtic origins, "American"?
Presumably you'll all be buttonholing Santas everywhere in December telling them that they're an appalling representation of fizzy drink marketing techniques?
Bunch of humbugs, the lot of you. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Since when was a festival, appropriated by Christianity in the middle ages from either Pagan, Roman or Celtic origins, "American"?
Presumably you'll all be buttonholing Santas everywhere in December telling them that they're an appalling representation of fizzy drink marketing techniques?
Bunch of humbugs, the lot of you. "
All Hallows Eve isn't it? When pagans knocked on doors asking for food or something and pagans went to America? Something like that anyway. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I love Halloween and it's not American but they celebrate lots of holidays far greater than we do and I like it. "
I enjoy any celebration that is fun and brings people together . Halloween for me is just that  |
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