Wow, I had honestly never heard of that holiday before!
And do I understand the Wikipedia article correctly that this is also the root of “Thanksgiving”?
That would actually be quite funny! 😆
BTW, we also light huge bonfires here in Germany around that time of year (11.11), but without any fireworks.
It’s to celebrate St. Martin’s Day.
Here in the US, where I’m at, it was tradition, not sure if it still is, to go around egging people and cars on “devil’s night,” the night before halloween.
Unless you are from detroit, in which case they burn down houses instead. Often the many abandoned houses taken over by drug gangs and crackheads and the like. Entire blocks have just one house on them, mounds where the old houses used to be. From 1.5 million in the city proper pre 1960’s era riots, (they rioted before it was popular for other reasons than the big ones which they also participated in after MLK got shot,) to less than 800k people now. It’s a huge city square mileage too. Idk if 100 square miles, but at least 10 deep and close that that wide I think.
It’s rooted in the tradition of being a little shit who has got their hands on some fireworks illegally and wants to set them off in their back garden because it’s the weekend and sometime vaguely around Halloween and Christmas lol
Is it common at your place to have fireworks at Halloween?
Doesn’t that destroy the spooky atmosphere?
In the UK Halloween is right before bonfire night and it’s not unusual for the fireworks to start a bit early.
Sooo… What’s the lore behind “bonfire night”?
Special occassion?
You could say that…
Wow, I had honestly never heard of that holiday before!
And do I understand the Wikipedia article correctly that this is also the root of “Thanksgiving”?
That would actually be quite funny! 😆
BTW, we also light huge bonfires here in Germany around that time of year (11.11), but without any fireworks. It’s to celebrate St. Martin’s Day.
Here in the US, where I’m at, it was tradition, not sure if it still is, to go around egging people and cars on “devil’s night,” the night before halloween.
Unless you are from detroit, in which case they burn down houses instead. Often the many abandoned houses taken over by drug gangs and crackheads and the like. Entire blocks have just one house on them, mounds where the old houses used to be. From 1.5 million in the city proper pre 1960’s era riots, (they rioted before it was popular for other reasons than the big ones which they also participated in after MLK got shot,) to less than 800k people now. It’s a huge city square mileage too. Idk if 100 square miles, but at least 10 deep and close that that wide I think.
Very common here. There was a whole bunch on halloween night.
ls this rooted in some older tradition, like the “getting rid of the old year’s ghosts” on New Year’s Day, or something new?
It’s rooted in the tradition of being a little shit who has got their hands on some fireworks illegally and wants to set them off in their back garden because it’s the weekend and sometime vaguely around Halloween and Christmas lol
There were even fireworks on Wednesday night!