I’m afraid, it’s the other way ’round for me. I still do not understand at what point in time, the Europeans began pretending Halloween had been there all the time. It had not and I am not getting the hang of it.
I would probably have cookies and chocolate around most of the year. The day before All Saint’s Day, I do not! And still surprised by the always same kids coming around on exactly that day, Halloween becomes a nuisance. I tend to oppose pressure and declare to ignore this US-tradition. You could take it back, please?
We’ve had our own ways, as kids, to have fun and some do even remember!
That’s inspired by the diaries of a dog and a cat. I wonder if you can still find the text on the Internet.
“I underestimated their cruelty. Put a dead mouse on their bed to show them what I am capable of but they kept cheering, and saying stuff like ‘good cat’, ‘well done’. Must rethink my strategy… ”
Yet another myth from the 19th century, I am afraid.The middle ages could have tried what they wanted to look good, we’d always used them to feel superior.
Castles everywhere… Kings and castles and knights. Else peasants. Buckled.
As an US-dominated community, you do not care. But this is the way that the French media invent the next president (and a acceptably authentic reproduction of the result).
@Marc: I took a note. ;)