nighean-neonach wrote:I celebrate Samhain, not Halloween, and that doesn't include costumes.
ILuvEire wrote:nighean-neonach wrote:I celebrate Samhain, not Halloween, and that doesn't include costumes.
No costumes! Is Samhain a different cultures take on a similar subject, or is it a totally different holiday, that happens to fall on October 31?
sa wulfs wrote: I'm not a big fan of Halloween, but I don't understand the whole anti-American spite many people show whenever it comes around. Not saying this is your case, but it's something that many people definitely do.
ILuvEire wrote:nighean-neonach wrote:I celebrate Samhain, not Halloween, and that doesn't include costumes.
No costumes! Is Samhain a different cultures take on a similar subject, or is it a totally different holiday, that happens to fall on October 31?
Eoghan wrote:but it's not really an option to stay home tomorrow if you're a student and you want to keep your friends...
nighean-neonach wrote:Eoghan wrote:but it's not really an option to stay home tomorrow if you're a student and you want to keep your friends...
So much peer pressure?
For me this is the single most important holiday of the year, and I don't give a *** about what other people might think.
Eoghan wrote:sa wulfs wrote: But I've already decided on going to the party tomorrow so any tips on last minute costumes would be greatly appreciated
The thing is that almost all things you non-pagans do on Halloween is stolen from Samhain - the Jack-Oh-Lanterns, the candles, the talk about the ancestors, the apple games, the pumpkins,and to some degree the costumes as well, it's a tradition from Isle of Man where the weeans used to dress up as ghosts to scare the evil spirits away.
JackFrost wrote:So the Americans didn't steal your pumpkins.
JackFrost wrote:The thing is that almost all things you non-pagans do on Halloween is stolen from Samhain - the Jack-Oh-Lanterns, the candles, the talk about the ancestors, the apple games, the pumpkins,and to some degree the costumes as well, it's a tradition from Isle of Man where the weeans used to dress up as ghosts to scare the evil spirits away.
Stolen? Are you being a tad dramatic? It was the Irish that brought over Halloween to the USA and the Americans made a tradition out of it by their style. Is that wrong?
Nevertheless, in respect to you and Mona, Happy Samhain.
nighean-neonach wrote:But anyway, Halloween is just not that big here in Germany. Some teenagers might celebrate it, and there might be some fancy club nights or stuff like that, but I suppose for many people it's just going to be an ordinary Friday night out.
loqu wrote:Oh please. Just the thought that tonight I will have to stand little stupid kids asking for candy thinking they are in the US makes me sick. I will be as rude as possible with them, I know.
loqu wrote:Oh please. Just the thought that tonight I will have to stand little stupid kids asking for candy thinking they are in the US makes me sick. I will be as rude as possible with them, I know.
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