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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

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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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

When companies realised that they could use it to sell us toot

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Teenage US television shows on our tv.

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By *wiftieeMan
over a year ago

near Glasgow

Further Americanisation!

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

It has always been a big day when I was growing up... but suddenly it seems to be everywhere.

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By *erbyDalesCplCouple
over a year ago

Derbyshire

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

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Love Halloween ha ha

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury


"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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hate it. Ban it. Send it back to America.

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By *erbyDalesCplCouple
over a year ago

Derbyshire


"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.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Dont get me wrong I think its great that its such a celebrated day but much like christmas its true reason is somewhat lost these days.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"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 *angerousEyesMan
over a year ago

weston


"When companies realised that they could use it to sell us toot"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"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)
over a year ago

It used to be simple.. Plastic witches hat and a carved out turnip.

Not this American pumpkin stuff!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It's a bit of good fun with parties and women dressed all sexily. Not too keen on the door knocking though.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

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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By *erbyDalesCplCouple
over a year ago

Derbyshire


"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
over a year ago

Here occasionally, but mostly somewhere else

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)
over a year ago


"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)
over a year ago

And people called the pagans witches and gave them food so they would bugger off?

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham


"Hate it. Ban it. Send it back to America. "

It's not America

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By *isscheekychopsWoman
over a year ago

The land of grey peas and bacon

I love Halloween and it's not American but they celebrate lots of holidays far greater than we do and I like it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"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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