[lit-ideas] Re: Fear Halloween
- From: Judy Evans <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 18:22:50 +0000
Friday, November 4, 2005, 4:45:28 PM, Ursula Stange wrote:
US> Ever read Ray Bradbury's short story about All Hallow's Eve? Bizarre
US> little holiday too, what with the death-themed candy and the picnics in
US> the cemetary.
here's Tim Garton Ash on All Saints Day in Poland:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,,1607400,00.html
Celebrating Halloween's fairly new here -- since it lapsed at the
Reformation -- at least, the Trick or Treat
is (and it costs me more in treats -- for OK children with their parents
-- each year!). But when I was a child in West Wales we did a baby
version of apple-bobbing that night, I suppose the Celtic Samhain
lingered there.
Halloween's badly timed for us, just days before Guy Fawkes. I
thought we'd have fireworks all week and both weekends.. but they've
only just begun again
--
Judy Evans, Cardiff, UK
mailto:judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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