It IS strange ... about ten years ago no one over here in Germany had ever heard of Halloween. We do have All Hallow's Eve and ALl Hallows over here, but these are more in the sense of the original Celtic festival, where you stay at home, celebrate the last light before the winter and remember your loved dead ones. We are also celebrating St. Martin's Day around the 7th to 9th of November where little children walk around town singing with self-made lanterns and lampoons and go from house to house for 'Krippschen' which is a very old non-translatable word for singing and getting a sweet treat (in form of sweets and apples/oranges). But in the big cities now there are more and more Halloween parties with kids trick and treating (and older ppl not understanding what the heck is going on). I really don't like Halloween in the US sense. It is too commercial and too ... well ... American. I rather prefer the original Samhain which is the beginning of the Celtic New Year.
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Date: 2011-11-01 08:18 pm (UTC)I really don't like Halloween in the US sense. It is too commercial and too ... well ... American. I rather prefer the original Samhain which is the beginning of the Celtic New Year.