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RE: TRUTH OR DARE #215 - Do You Celebrate Thanksgiving?

in #funny6 years ago

no, not here, i never heard of anything referred to as thanksgiving , back as a kid when it was all conservative traditional here, things like harvest and spring and midwinter did get attention in some circles though, jumping over fires and all that.

All that ancient hybrid Germanic / Nord stuff , but those things were all fun really, very moody and atmospheric, you could almost feel the elder ghosts around .
There's still a yearly tradition here where people go around with these pots filled with fire, whirling them , all through town , it dates back to a pagan tradition which was mean to purify the place from ghosts (fire has always had a mystical power, since it got stolen from the gods, right)

Everything has a roman church name now i dont know how that one translates, literally it would be "light-mass" , google tells me the roman-catholic overlay version is the date when jesus was accepted in heaven lol.

about every pagan day has been overlaid, but so are all traditions where the Romans made their mark.

Good thing about "lightmass" is there's always pancakes at the end :D

Turkeys are traditionally reserved for christmas but recently people wanna get fancy with it. The rise of the "superhero-cook" as entertainment on tv probably has a lot to do with that and ofcourse restaurants cash in by gathering groups of lonely people who can have a feast for less since the whole place is sold out and you have to reserve a ticket.

I havent celebrated christmas or new-years in years myself. I think i'll hold the celebrations until i have a reason to :))

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