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Happy Friday to all of you

What a nice, completely regular friday, without any special occasion attatched to it. I mean.. Here in Europe.

For you Americans it's the holiday with the generic "trick or treat" punps, where the treat is that your char get's fucked or stuff like that.

I don't realy get it because it's non existent where I life, but I admit it looks like a fun holiday.
So I wish you all a nice generic german friday!

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Blackraven2

5 days, 21 hrs ago

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theres more and more trick or treaters running around in germany too, its become a popular thing for kids, although the inclination to play along among residents varies between reluctant to "verschwindet oder ich hol die Polizei!"
the latter leads to a tendency of cars being covered in TP later in the night

Harleking

5 days, 20 hrs ago

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I mean, I could argue, that we have Reformation Day.

MeganBryar

5 days, 20 hrs ago

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I guess it's one of those things you have to grow up with. As a kid, you get to dress up in fun costumes, which you often made yourself, and go door to door bumming candy off of strangers. Or anyway, the parents of your friends and neighbors, since etiquette says you stick to your own neighborhood. (A tough break for those of us who live outside of town.)

As an adult, it's largely nostalgia, and dressing up in fun costumes to hand candy out to trick-or-treaters. The whole thing with getting adult art of your furry character banging while dressed up as a mummy or whatever is just the tip of the iceberg, really.

The origins of Halloween are a bit obscure, but it's possibly a funky blending of Christian and pagan traditions, kinda mixing Celtic harvest festivals with the Christian veneration of saints, originally springing up in Scotland and Ireland before being transplanted to the US by immigrants. It has been secularized over the years but I believe there are still some folks who hold religious obersvances on or around Halloween. (And there are those who scream about it being Satanic, but most of us don't pay much attention to them.)

Anyway, Long-winded way of saying it's just one of those funky cultural things I guess. But thanks for the kind words and I hope you have a fantastic Friday as well!

MviluUatusun

5 days, 10 hrs ago

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@ MeganBryar

Actually, as I said below, Hallowe'en is the night before All Saints Day. (If you're Protestant, Reformation Day.) But, you're also right in that it's a blending of Christian and pagan holidays (Pagan holiday is Samhain, the harvest festival.)

MeganBryar

5 days, 10 hrs ago

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@ MviluUatusun

Yeah, I knew the broad strokes, but being neither pagan nor Christian, nor well versed in religious history*, I didn't want to misrepresent anyone's beliefs. Plus, I think most folks these days just like it for the costumes and candy, too.

*Barring the propensity of English monarchs to lop each others heads off for being on the "wrong" side of the endless squabble between Protestans and Catholics.

MviluUatusun

5 days, 10 hrs ago

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@ MeganBryar

Yeah, that's true.

MviluUatusun

5 days, 11 hrs ago

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Edited 5 days, 11 hrs ago by Owner

The US might be the only country that celebrates it the way we do but it goes back to Celtic Brittania. The Celts believed that on the night of October 31, the ghosts of deceased family members were free to walk the Earth. They also believed that if one of these ghosts approached a house the owner of the house must give them some kind of a sweet treat. Failure to do so could cause the ghost to become irritated and do some kind of shenanigans against the homeowner. Eventually, this evolved into children running around and taking the treats for themselves. Later, the children started dressing up as ghosts, goblins, witches, etc. to try to trick the homeowners to give the treats directly to them. If a homeowner refused to give out treats, the children would play some kind of trick on the homeowner. That's where the phrase "Trick or Treat" came from. Fast forward to the Christian "invasion" of Britain. The Catholic church decided rather than fight the Celts about this, they would accept their Samhain celebration as All Hallow's Eve, the night before All Saint's Day. The premise was the same as Samhain (ghosts walking the Earth for a night and performing mischief if anyone failed to leave a sweet treat for them) but it became a Christian holiday instead. At least, that's the story I was told when I was in school many, many years ago.

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