NarrativeBear
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- Comment on People who live in southern hemisphere countries: do your mall Santas dress for freezing cold weather? 2 days ago:
Similar like Christmas, Halloween is not celebrated in the same commercialized way in parts of Europe for example. It focuses more on the remembering and honouring of the dead, commonly done with heading to evening mass and then lighting a candel at the cemetery.
Halloween as we know it evolved from two main sources: the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, which marked the end of summer and the beginning of winter, and the Christian observances of All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day. The night before All Saints’ Day, November 1, became known as “All Hallows’ Eve,” which was later shortened to Halloween.
Celtic festival of Samhain
Purpose: To celebrate the end of the harvest season and the beginning of the dark, cold winter.
Beliefs: Celts believed that on the night of Samhain (around November 1), the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred, allowing spirits to roam the earth.
Traditions: To ward off evil spirits, people would light large bonfires and wear costumes or disguises.
Timing: Held around November 1, the time of the new year for the ancient Celts.
Christian influence
All Saints Day: In the 8th century, the Roman Catholic Church moved the feast day of All Saints to November 1, likely to absorb or replace the pagan traditions of Samhain.
All Hallows’ Eve: The night before the feast of All Saints became known as “All Hallows’ Eve,” or “the eve of all the hallowed (or holy) ones”. Over time, this name was shortened to “Hallowe’en”.
Merged traditions: Many pagan traditions from Samhain merged with Christian observances, such as the “souling” tradition in which people went door-to-door asking for food in exchange for prayers for the dead. This is a precursor to modern trick-or-treating.
- Comment on People who live in southern hemisphere countries: do your mall Santas dress for freezing cold weather? 2 days ago:
This is a interesting question. I believe it comes down to if the “corporate version” of Santa Claus (and Christmas) has made its way to the southern hemisphere. Christmas is a major Catholic holiday celebrating the birth of Jesus. Santa Claus is derived from the Saint Nicholas a patron saint.
“Saint Nicholas is the patron saint of sailors, merchants, archers, repentant thieves, children, brewers, pawnbrokers, toymakers, unmarried people, and students in various cities and countries around Europe. His reputation evolved among the pious, as was common for early Christian saints, and his legendary habit of secret gift-giving gave rise to the folklore of Santa Claus”
- Comment on Are you even old enough to remember number 1? 1 week ago:
How’s this not on the list!
- Comment on US government uses Halo images in a call to 'destroy' immigration, Microsoft declines to comment 1 week ago:
Lawsuit incoming…?
- Comment on New name for Whatsapp! 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on 2022 vs. 2026 FIFA World Cup ticket prices 4 weeks ago:
Considering my past experiences leaving NFL stadiums after a game, not well.
You can be stuck in the parking lot (in your car) for hours after a game ends, and only move a few feet/meters.
- Comment on 2022 vs. 2026 FIFA World Cup ticket prices 4 weeks ago:
And on top off that FIFA is also selling NFTs that might get you the opportunity to potentially buy a ticket.
- Comment on 2022 vs. 2026 FIFA World Cup ticket prices 4 weeks ago:
And for everything else there’s MasterCard
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 93 comments
- Comment on trout 4 weeks ago:
Put the fish in the bucket!
- Comment on balance 4 weeks ago:
The person holding the camera looks like they are about to fall over themselves just standing still.
- Comment on The UK can't see Imgur links right now, apparently. 4 weeks ago:
Brexit 2.0?
- Comment on No excuses 4 weeks ago:
I have no respect for individual that have no respect for rules of the road.
- Comment on Wololo! 5 weeks ago:
What movie is this?
- Comment on Here's a fun game. 5 weeks ago:
Invasion of the Dick Snatchers
Sounds scary. 10/10 I would watch this.
- Comment on Why Do People Keep Crashing into CVS? 1 month ago:
Simple fix with better infrastructure that’s not car centric in nature but people focused.
- Comment on Why do people call it “woke”? 1 month ago:
Nicely said, it’s generally the sheep that goes it alone that gets eaten by the wolf!
- Comment on Why do people call it “woke”? 1 month ago:
Never understood this as well. During COVID the anti-vax crowd was calling people “sheep” as in being asleep or easy to control and direct.
Somehow that seemed to have morphed to “woke”, but woke to me implies that your are “awake” or “thinking”. If someone calls me woke I assume it to be a compliment.
- Comment on Too bad famous paintings like this don't have captions like the ones I added 1 month ago:
German humor is like healthcare. Many Americans simply don’t get it.
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- Comment on Bamboozled! 1 month ago:
Its an older meme but it checks out.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
The similarity of what happens around the dinner table with Putin in Russia.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 2 months ago:
Hopefully sites will rather go dark then implement systems to store and retain “age verification” data, or more specifically “identify data”.
Age verification in my mind just means people that want to create a website will now have large barriers to entry.
Where I see this going is a service will probably pop up that will allow site developers to stick a third party “age verification” platform infront of their site that acts like a gate keeper or bouncer.
Sign in with Facebook will probably become more common now that I think of it. Visiting bestbuy? Sign in with Facebook. Visiting a adult website? Sign in with Facebook.
- Comment on japanese 2 months ago:
At least it’s not backwards
(Phones selfies flip the image, and the mirror flips it back)
- Comment on I have tomorrow off :) 2 months ago:
R2D2
- Comment on 'Ad Blocking is Not Piracy' Decision Overturned By Top German Court 2 months ago:
The original ad blocker! Arrr
- Comment on Why aren't we funding this! 2 months ago:
It looks the same, but the optical illusion does not.
- Submitted 2 months ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 7 comments
- Comment on Fun fact 2 months ago:
Feel like you’re wearing a long sleeve sweater without wearing a long sleeve sweater?
- Comment on hehe 👉👈 2 months ago:
Its amazing nature be like it do.
