Bonfire Vs Halloween

[Scampi]

Also? Maybe there was a pagan celebration before, but bonfire night is on the 5th November, and celebrates Guy Fawkes being caught on the 5th November.

I think both have absorbed the older traditions. The samhain traditions were tranferred to the new holiday of All Saints in Ireland and in England the echoes of the old pagan celebrations of autumn have attached to Guy Fawkes ( bonfires , torchlit processions, costumes etc)

 

[Scampi]

Anyway nice to see such strong support for Bonfire. It's a sussex tradition I personally think we should be proud of.

 

[Triggaaar]

I think both have absorbed the older traditions. The samhain traditions were tranferred to the new holiday of All Saints in Ireland and in England the echoes of the old pagan celebrations of autumn have attached to Guy Fawkes ( bonfires , torchlit processions, costumes etc)

Bonfire night may have absorbed things that used to happen before, but I don't think that makes it of pagan origin. We'd be celebrating Fawkes being caught regardless of what happened before, and we'd be celebrating it on the 5th November, and ideally, we'd be using fire and gunpowder.

 

[Seagull over Canaryland]

'Twill soon be the season for Carol singers.......maybe not quite as common as trick or treaters at Halloween, but still an excuse for a doorstep mugging. Occasionally you encounter a genuine choir, collecting for some deserving cause, which is fair enough.

However I quite admire the cheek of the spotty yoofs who wouldn't normally dream of singing in public but hope you will part with your cash after a few flat bars of 'God rest ye merry Gentlemen'.... before they head to the offy to stock up on Special Brew. I insist on them singing the second verse just to see a) if they know it and b) who will flinch first - them or us!