Halloween Tradition?

@ernielynch

know all about the American “Krampus” tradition.

American tradition? Surely you’re trolling.

Krampus is a tradition of Germanic alpine origin. Really big in Austria, Switzerland and Southern Bavaria. Scary AF for little kids.

Surely you’re trolling.

Why?  If someone doesn’t know something you do, that doesn’t equate to trolling.  Brace yourself, It’s likely they know stuff you don’t! 😉

Surely you’re trolling

LOL! What a weird accusation. I did wonder how long it might take for this thread to descend into bad tempered bickering, I think it’s been teetering on the edge for a while!

Yes I know the origin of Krampus. I have already explained that I know about it from American Dad.

Like St Patrick’s, Halloween, Santa Claus, etc, Krampus is now traditionally part of American culture, despite its European origins.

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In the Hebrides they were dressed like this 90 years ago. My mum was from there but when we were guising in the 60s near Glasgow, our costumes were a bit more conventional.

In the Hebrides they were dressed like this 90 years ago yesterday.

And that was in Tesco’s.

Krampus – I was very nervous/disturbed in Mittenwald (very southern Bavaria) during Krampus night. Lots of people dressed as trees. I was 40!

and it was Mischief night in my part of Yorkshire- a cause of much laughter for me and my mates and misery for my sister who’s birthday it is.

In Flensburg this week and it’s a holiday – Reformationstag.

Well, I’m rather chuffed with the pumpkin I just carved, way better than my niece’s effort.

way better than my niece’s effort.

Have you ever seen the Fast Show character “competitive dad”? 😆

Worked for Spielberg Crazy-Legs.

In the Hebrides they were dressed like this 90 years ago yesterday.

Aye, you just need to visit the Hebrides once, and straight away you know where they got the idea for The Wicker Man

What the fudge cake?

More importantly though, who’s the hottie on the left?

I like unshaven.

I think it’s a great tradition, kids going round houses dressed up not egging houses. We used to do it in the early 70s. It wasn’t called trick or treat then it was just tell a joke or sing a song for a reward usually a tangerine and there was dooking for apples.

it was called ‘guising’ when we did it – with a lantern carved from a turnip or swede.

Yes “guising” as in going out in a disguise. I forgot that was what it was called. There was also kids hanging out with a stuffed straw man in a bogey or an old pram at the shops asking for “a penny for the guy”. You don’t see that anymore.

Another victim of our cashless society 🙁   😉

In some places its a bit off a moveable feast – in Kilmarnock for instance , for as long as anyone can remember, halloween activities have always take place on the last friday in Octiber, rather than the last day of October.

@maccruiskeen Is that near Auchentiber?

FWIW Kilmarnock looks like it’s Halloween all year round, it’s like a twisted town-wide Christmas shop.

It’s bonfire night

Down here in Sussex it’s Bonfire, and it gets its own “season” starting in September and running through to the 5th of November.

In Lewes they burn an effigy of head Catholic – the pope….because history.

I’m sure there was some religious shenanigans once, but now it’s mostly just great fun….

Bonfire night around here too. Celebrating the king not being murdered.

The great thing about Halloween is that it delays the onset of Xmas until early November, and that means that you lot can have two whinges instead of one. How many more sleeps until you’re allowed to say that Xmas gets earlier every year?

There’s Poppy-mas in between as well!

Lest you forget.  😉

The great thing about Halloween is that it delays the onset of Xmas until early November, and that means that you lot can have two whinges instead of one. How many more sleeps until you’re allowed to say that Xmas gets earlier every year?
I had my first mince pie of the season about 6 weeks ago.  Sounds like you’re slacking!

I’ve had two boxes so far – icing topped, from Aldi, and a posh pretend box of JS lemon crumble topped things which aren’t really mince pies but are in their seasonal aisle. I also have a box of emergency pies in the freezer… No slacking here, and I also don’t whinge about Xmas, because mince pies! (The comment was aimed at the miseriguts who inhabit this website. 😀  )