Halloween, or Day of the Dead, that is, the Polish-Irish duet

The overwhelming power of Halloween traditions of Ireland, writes Alan. It corresponds to the Polish King.

There is no time for reverie, is fun.

Although Ireland is a Catholic country, there is no tradition of All Saints, or All Souls' Day. The same feast in the Catholic calendar is, but nobody pays any attention (perhaps it would be otherwise, if it was a day off from work). Unlike the case of HALLOWEEN has, which falls on 31. October and is very popular here.
Tradition, who came from the U.S. has taken root deeply in the consciousness of the Irish and I do not just mean children. Adults also very willing to "play" in a threatening. Always on the Halloween weekend in Dublin, there are plenty of events, which can be accessed only if, it is a disguised. Otherwise, do not let.
Last Monday in October in Ireland is a day off from work. This year it falls just 31. October, So long weekend will be entirely devoted to Halloween. First, the events all day Saturday and Sunday, on Monday to sit at home and wait for the kids knocking on the door and demanding sweets. If you do not have sweets, you can be sure, that will treat you to a curved, so you better have a bag of candy hidden somewhere.

Being in Dublin in "Halloween weekend" for sure you will come across various kinds of zombies, fears and witches walked the streets of the city. Entering into any club or pub you may be greeted by Freddie Krueger on Elm Street. Adults really good time during these days.
In the same Halloween, together with their children go from house to house helping them to fulfill the traditional Halloween "obligations". Children are all sorts of disguises. Sometimes bleeding zombie, and sometimes mild Pooh Bear. Regardless of, Who will be at your door, necessarily have to scare and give children some sweets.
Frightening is not the only tradition dear in connection with the Halloween. Another is burning huge bonfires and fireworks and firecrackers bleed. As early as two weeks before Halloween, you can see a group of teenagers "przetrząsających" city in search of anything, what is suitable for burning. They are suitable even transport pallets and frames of beds. All, which will load the shopping carts and take. Arrange for this great heap and set fire to it. This is not a safe playground. The fire service has a lot of work. Ambulance also. In Ireland, selling fireworks and firecrackers is illegal, but in Northern Ireland have not - so who needs, There was a pyrotechnic supplies. The explosions of fireworks and firecrackers like Polish New Year's Eve.

So just go by the last days of October here. There is no time for reverie, is great fun.

P.S. Popytałem little Irish friends and it turned out, that outside of Dublin, tradition in the villages to visit cemeteries, however, is cultivated. In the first days of November, people pray for all souls, that can not get to heaven, not only close. Unfortunately, it's just far outside of Dublin is a tradition and probably slowly dying.

Alan Gorski

 

Halloween, and Polish

This perverse title - Halloween to the Polish question is to the, like a fist to the nose. It does not fit. In Ireland, America - yes. In Poland - not. And not for any reference to the pagan past of the nation I'm talking about, but the tradition.

So, as in Ireland ustrojone the cobwebs houses I like, just as much in Poland, it strikes me. A Polish children dressed as ghosts,pl, going from house to house, make me pity. Do not open the door. Sure would like to, I make it as nice as they, but it is not. This role does not suit me. I hope, that Halloween in Poland will go out of date as quickly, as it appeared, remains for us to interesting, worth knowing, although alien to our culture.

Do we have any news from the west immediately adapt? The more, we have a tradition 1 i 2 November - Polish All Saints Day and All Souls' Day Polish. Kultywujmy it, because it is beautiful.

In these days, especially, crowds watching the graveyard alleys roam in search of friends graves, I have great respect for Poles. I'm glad, I - along with his family - among those wandering the cemetery with a heavy bag filled with candles, which burn for several days with millions of others will create a wonderful, light rippling landscape.

There is the convenience of living in these days the most important - otherwise, who would lose time (and urlop) for hours of traveling through the holes and the Polish road congestion, stuck in a string of cars roaming the country for the same purpose: to get to the graves of loved ones, light a candle, pray, mention, meet with the family. And all this in the cold, time, rain, szarudze mud and saddest of the autumn months.

1 November is one of the dead. On that day, lighting a candle with dad, Grandfather, Uncle, Grandma, colleague is my sacred duty.

You can of course spuentować, that this type of celebration is part of our Polish tendency to martyrdom, we like to feel sorry for myself, fall into a reverie, manifest sadness. Polish festival of the dead, however, focuses not on us, not in our sadness and longing, but the dead, our obligation to them. Cherishes the memory of all, are no longer. It teaches the next generation of links to them, we loved, szanowaliśmy, for which we yearn. It shows how this longing, bond, express feelings.

Is it sad holiday? Not, although they spent in the cemetery. Cemeteries of the day they become one big family meeting place, friendly, anticipated and unanticipated, random, or planned. Usually happy.

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