You celebrate Halloween?

[Grace O'Malley]

No. It's pretty much irrelevant in the UK in general

Celebrated all over Northern Ireland and I thought the Scots still celebrate Halloween. Halloween was never really a thing in England.

https://discovernorthernireland.com/...and-fireworks/

https://www.historic-uk.com/CultureU...n-in-Scotland/

[Grace O'Malley]

I don't and none of my family members. Halloween does not belong to Polish culture and tradition. We celebrate All Saints' Day (also known as All Hallows' Day) on the 1st of November and All Souls' Day on the 2nd of November. Both days are dedicated to commemorate our deceased relatives and ancestors

Nice to see a post from you even if very infrequent.

[Grace O'Malley]

I would also like to know.

The Celtic culture of Ireland has similarities with Welsh, Cornish and Breton Celtic culture?

Well the obvious difference is language i.e. Welsh, Cornish and Bretons speak a different branch of Celtie i.e. Brythonic whilst the Irish, Scots and Manx speak Goidelic. They never saw themselves as the same people. Irish used to raid the Welsh and Cornish coasts in the past. I've never looked into if their Gods have anything in common but I'm sure they would. This is something I'd be interested in. The only united Celtic Kingdom was the Dal Riada one that spanned parts of Ireland and the Scottish isles and parts of Northern Scotland and the Isle of Man.

[Colonel Frank Grimes]

Best time of year: Halloween!

[Dragoon]

Posting this related story from Ruski land.

Halloween draws children to Satan & suicide,’ must be banned in Russian schools – pro-Christian MP


Controversial pro-Christian MP, Vitaly Milonov, has urges Education Minister, Olga Vasilyeva, to forbid celebrations of “pagan Satan-worshiping holiday” Halloween in Russian schools and severely punish those, who violate the ban.

In his address, Milonov said had been receiving numerous complaints from parents, who are “alarmed” by plans to stage Halloween celebrations at schools and colleges where their kids study.

“Many schoolchildren are being persuaded to participate in this shady holiday. They are being forced to make costumes of imps, decorate classrooms with otherworldly attributes and prepare thematic plays.”

The ruling United Russia Party deputy stated that Halloween, which only came to the country in recent decades after the fall of Soviet Union, isn’t part of the Russian culture and traditions.

“This holiday has pagan, anti-Christian roots. It well known that it’s based on worshiping dark forces and Satan as well as glorifying the grim Celtic cult of death.”

he MP asked the minister to “take all possible measures to prevent Halloween celebrations at schools” in Russia. But if the violations still occur, he urged “the toughest disciplinary measures to be implemented against those officials, who indulge the insight of mystical Satanism into the minds of our children.”


ilonov, who became famous for his anti-LGBT crusade, while being a local legislator in Saint Petersburg, has come up with a number of disputable initiatives since being elected to the Russian Parliament two years ago.

https://on.rt.com/9hc0

[Colonel Frank Grimes]

Beltane wouldn't have been. I've no doubt places like Galicia have their own festivals like all areas but they wouldn't have the exact same festival as the Irish called Beltane (Irish language word). The Welsh for example wouldn't have called it that. Beltane was only celebrated in Gaelic areas.

It would be interesting to hear from a Galician or a Spanish person who knows their country's history.

I just discovered this while looking at Tony "El Cucuy" Ferguson's MMA record on wikipedia. I was curious about the nickname.

In the first half of the 20th century the coca was an integral part of festivities like All Souls' Day and the ritual begging of Pão-por-Deus. The tradition of Pão-por-Deus, already mentioned in the 15th century,[48] is a ritual begging for bread and cakes, done door to door by children, though in the past poor beggers would also take part. Its purpose is to share the bread or treats gathered door to door with the dear little souls, the dead of the community who were eagerly awaited and arrived at night in the shape of butterflies or little animals, during the traditional magusto.[49][50][51][52] In Portugal, depending of the region, the Pão-por-Deus assumes different names: santoro or santorinho,[53] dia dos bolinhos (cookies day), fieis de deus.[54] This same tradition extends to Galicia where it is called migallo.[55][56][57] It has a close resemblance with the tradition of souling or nowadays Trick-or-treating.[58] While the Pão-por-Deus or Santoro is the bread or offering given to the souls of the dead, the Molete or Samagaio is the bread or offering that is given when a child is born.[59][60]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coco_(folklore)

There is a tradition of hollowing out pumpkins and placing a candle.

In Coimbra the begging mentions "Bolinhos, bolinhós" and the group brings an emptied pumpkin with two holes representing the eyes of a personage and a candle lit in the inside [...] another example of the use of the pumpkin or gourd as a human representation, is in the masks of the muffled young men during the desfolhada, the communal stripping of the maize, in Santo Tirso de Prazins (Guimarães), which after, they carry hoisted on a stick and with a candle in the inside, and leave them stuck on any deserted place to put fear to who is passing by.[62]

I remember my father telling me how he and his friends would play practical jokes on naive old people.

[Richmondbread]

Thank God Halloween is over.

[Ryujin]

Yes I do. I went to Halloween parties dressed as the Ghostface. This year I did The Crow make-up.

[Ayetooey]

Not really I never liked Halloween, my mum celebrates it a bit and buys a pumpkin and all that stuff, when I was growing up my mum would buy all the sweets n shit but because we were in a predominantly Muslim area no kids would come round for trick or treating so me and my sister would just eat it all.

[Colonel Frank Grimes]

Not really I never liked Halloween, my mum celebrates it a bit and buys a pumpkin and all that stuff, when I was growing up my mum would buy all the sweets n shit but because we were in a predominantly Muslim area no kids would come round for trick or treating so me and my sister would just eat it all.

Another reason to be anti-Islamic.