
Dein neuer Spruch über arm und reich ist nicht schlecht, Cayenne!
LG
Heike
Meteor01 hat geschrieben:Hi lordseagel,
ich weiss leider nicht, ob Du Kinder hast, warscheinlich nicht, denn dann würdest Du anders denken. In Bezug auf MC und irgendwelche " Feste die Kinder " feiern möchten.
Gruß Gundel
Cayenne hat geschrieben:Plankton meint sicher nicht die "heavy metal band" Helloween, sondern das keltisch/irische Fest HALLOWEEN ??
Damit ihr alle den Ursprung kennenlernt, hier die erjklaerung - doch leider nur in englisch !
History and Customs of Halloween
Halloween is an annual celebration, but just what is it actually a celebration of? And how did this peculiar custom originate? Is it, as some claim, a kind of demon worship? Or is it just a harmless vestige of some ancient pagan ritual?
The word itself, "Halloween," actually has its origins in the Catholic Church. It comes from a contracted corruption of All Hallows Eve. November 1, "All Hollows Day" (or "All Saints Day"), is a Catholic day of observance in honor of saints. But, in the 5th century BC, in Celtic Ireland, summer officially ended on October 31. The holiday was called Samhain (sow-en), the Celtic New year.
One story says that, on that day, the disembodied spirits of all those who had died throughout the preceding year would come back in search of living bodies to possess for the next year. It was believed to be their only hope for the afterlife. The Celts believed all laws of space and time were suspended during this time, allowing the spirit world to intermingle with the living.
Naturally, the still-living did not want to be possessed. So on the night of October 31, villagers would extinguish the fires in their homes, to make them cold and undesirable. They would then dress up in all manner of ghoulish costumes and noisily paraded around the neighborhood, being as destructive as possible in order to frighten away spirits looking for bodies to possess.
Probably a better explanation of why the Celts extinguished their fires was not to discourage spirit possession, but so that all the Celtic tribes could relight their fires from a common source, the Druidic fire that was kept burning in the Middle of Ireland, at Usinach.
Some accounts tell of how the Celts would burn someone at the stake who was thought to have already been possessed, as sort of a lesson to the spirits. Other accounts of Celtic history debunk these stories as myth.
The Romans adopted the Celtic practices as their own. But in the first century AD, Samhain was assimilated into celebrations of some of the other Roman traditions that took place in October, such as their day to honor Pomona, the Roman goddess of fruit and trees. The symbol of Pomona is the apple, which might explain the origin of our modern tradition of bobbing for apples on Halloween.
The thrust of the practices also changed over time to become more ritualized. As belief in spirit possession waned, the practice of dressing up like hobgoblins, ghosts, and witches took on a more ceremonial role.
The custom of Halloween was brought to America in the 1840's by Irish immigrants fleeing their country's potato famine. At that time, the favorite pranks in New England included tipping over outhouses and unhinging fence gates.
The custom of trick-or-treating is thought to have originated not with the Irish Celts, but with a ninth-century European custom called souling. On November 2, All Souls Day, early Christians would walk from village to village begging for "soul cakes," made out of square pieces of bread with currants. The more soul cakes the beggars would receive, the more prayers they would promise to say on behalf of the dead relatives of the donors. At the time, it was believed that the dead remained in limbo for a time after death, and that prayer, even by strangers, could expedite a soul's passage to heaven.
The Jack-o-lantern custom probably comes from Irish folklore. As the tale is told, a man named Jack, who was notorious as a drunkard and trickster, tricked Satan into climbing a tree. Jack then carved an image of a cross in the tree's trunk, trapping the devil up the tree. Jack made a deal with the devil that, if he would never tempt him again, he would promise to let him down the tree.
According to the folk tale, after Jack died, he was denied entrance to Heaven because of his evil ways, but he was also denied access to Hell because he had tricked the devil. Instead, the devil gave him a single ember to light his way through the frigid darkness. The ember was placed inside a hollowed-out turnip to keep it glowing longer.
The Irish used turnips as their "Jack's lanterns" originally. But when the immigrants came to America, they found that pumpkins were far more plentiful than turnips. So the Jack-O-Lantern in America was a hollowed-out pumpkin, lit with an ember.
So, although some cults may have adopted Halloween as their favorite "holiday," the day itself did not grow out of evil practices. It grew out of the rituals of Celts celebrating a new year, and out of Medieval prayer rituals of Europeans. And today, even many churches have Halloween parties or pumpkin carving events for the kids. After all, the day itself is only as evil as one cares to make it.
© 1995-2002 by Jerry Wilson; Get Permission to Reprint this article.
References: Charles Panati, Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things, 1987; and Dr. Joseph Gahagan, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Personal letter, 1997
tecy hat geschrieben:och cayenne du bist unfair. nicht jeder kann englisch, das ist eigentlich diskriminierend!!!! würdest du deutsch schreiben.Danke
tecy hat geschrieben: Von Cayenne`s ausredenabgesehen, mag ich helloween und es wird hier schon seit 4 Jahren gemacht. Kinder laufen rum und klingeln. Also nicht alles was die Amis(nur einer meiner Abkürzungen nicht negativ gemeint)ist negativ.
[quote="loehae Es ist aber nicht so witzig, wenn Kinder nicht wissen warum sie durch die Häuser ziehen, welches der Hintergrund ist dessen was sie tun, meinst du nicht auch ?
Aber heutzutage wissen viele noch nicht einmal warum Weihnachten gefeiert wird , woher dieses Fest stammt. Wie soll man da erwarten , dass die Kinder , oder auch Erwachsene, bei Halloween eine Ahnung haben.
Gruß Lilli
tecy hat geschrieben:och cayenne du bist unfair. nicht jeder kann englisch, das ist eigentlich diskriminierend!!!! würdest du deutsch schreiben.Danke
Von Cayenne`s ausredenabgesehen, mag ich helloween und es wird hier schon seit 4 Jahren gemacht.
plankton hat geschrieben: Ich gehör auch zu denen, was ist so schlimm drann? Ich feiere es ja auch nicht in diesem Sinne. Ich mache den Kindern zuliebe ein gruseliges Fest, weil sie mit Halloween gruseliges assozieren. Was ist schlimm daran, das ich mich ne Woche mit den Kinder intensiv mit nem Thema beschäftige, mit ihnen etwas unternehme und wir Spass dabei haben?
Für mich zähl bei "Festen" das Zwischenmenschliche und nicht unbedingt der Sinn, tja, Ahnsichtssache.
Nostradamuz hat geschrieben:Ich hab noch nie nen Deutschen erlebt, der das Ende des Rammadan zuhause feiert,
loehae hat geschrieben:schön, die Aufklärung über Halloween, Cayenne !
Bin immer wieder entsetzt, wieviele Menschen zwar Halloween feiern, aber nichts über den Ursprung wissen.
Cayenne hat geschrieben: Wenn ihr alles von den USA Buergern uebernehmt, dann laufen vielleicht die USA Buerger bald in Lederhosen durch die Gegend, oder ?
Nee nee, nicht jeder eignet sich Angewohnheiten anderer an - ausser den Deutschen !
arive hat geschrieben:in deutschland gibt es etwas ähnliches. das ist die nacht vom 30. april auf den 1. mai. das ist die zeit für die jugendlichen und nicht mehr für die kiddies.
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