[Northkeep] Halloween

[facon at cox.net]

Oh, I can understand that, when I said it was a combined holiday, I 
meant her in america, something that evolved out of the meshing of 
customs, legends and beliefs that all came to america.  As far as I know 
in ohter countries they might practice whatever the local custom is 
there(as in one of those pieces I was talkig about). Though I could be 
wrong on that, there might be countries that practice it in ways like we 
do that I am not aware of.


On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Kathryn Helstrom wrote:

> When I was in North Africa in October of 1985, there were some RAF
> (British) pilots staying at the same hotel as us Americans, and we 
> decided
> to costume it up and have a Halloween Party down at poolside on the 
> night of
> the 31st.  When we showed up in our homemade costumes (hotel sheets 
> were
> never the same after that night), most of the French and Africans were
> clueless about the Halloween tradition.  We spent more of the night
> explaining the party to the rest of the folks at the outdoor bar than 
> I
> would have ever imagined.  Truly, they were not even aware of the 
> Halloween
> celebration.
>
> Franziska
>
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 2:03 PM, <facon at cox.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> My understanding is that Halloween as we know it is actually the 
>> merging of
>> several different cultures(mummies from egypt, witches from britan, 
>> scary
>> masks from mexico, demons gargoyles from ancient cathedrals, 
>> etc......),
>> from several different holidays (day of the dead from mexico, celtic 
>> druidic
>> practices, etc.....)from all accross the world which over time merged 
>> into a
>> single holiday that we celebrate today. It is a testament to the 
>> merging of
>> societies coming together in a single holiday.  I celebrate it for 
>> this
>> reason and some of more personal nature which I do not feel are 
>> relevant to
>> the discussion.  I think personally that it is more important to look 
>> at the
>> unity of the holiday rather than the differences, how can you define 
>> a
>> holiday that comes from so many different cultures.
>>
>> Maybe it would help in our search for the finding the beginning of
>> Halloween if we where to start trying to finding the origins of the 
>> smaller
>> parts that make up the whole.
>>
>> Just my two cents,
>>
>> Facon
>>
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