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Where I’m from we just did the “trick” part. Ran around in dark clothing on 30th April* in the late evening, fairly distributing toilet paper if we were unimaginative, and painting cows violet if we were more creative. General mischief, is what I’m saying, none of that bargaining for sweets, your house is going to be TP’ed and you’ll like it because the alternative might be actual property damage.

* I… think that was the date. It’s been a while and I don’t live there anymore.

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A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Sounds like something you’d do at Walpurgisnacht. I remember women actually carrying scissors to cut off men’s … neckties or other parts of clothing.

I miss the mischief.

The way you describe it, Southern Germany or Austria or Switzerland?

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- Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Southwestern Germany, yep :) We called it Hexennacht, Witches’ Night, which is of course the same as Walpurgisnacht. The necktie cutting as I know it is a Karneval thing, specifically the Thursday before Karneval, called Weiberfasnacht (“Wives’/women’s carnival”). Though I wouldn’t be surprised if there were heathens somewhere cutting neckties on some other day ;D
  
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  - A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    
    The necktie cutting as I know it is a Karneval thing, specifically the Thursday before Karneval, called Weiberfasnacht (“Wives’/women’s carnival”).
    
    Shit, you’re right (same in Cologne). But I seem to remember something similar from Walpurgisnacht; women being in control, somewhat.
    
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Maeve@kbin.earth ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Walpurgisnacht Celebration

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