Kingdom of Knuffel

They did that??? Wth, Disney?? O_O
Coco was a great movie, but it's based on an existing culture, it's not something they can just make their own, ffs...
Also hello everyone :)

That's crazy, isn't it?
I had not heard about it, but tbh it's not hard to believe...

We've also carved pumpkins. Not a tradition and again people are sharing on FB that they choose to remember instead of scare and light a candle instead of a pumpkin, yadayada. Buut, there's no trick or treating, it's the pumpkin season and we got huge one's from an employee (well, he brought the plant) so it was fun to do. :) And otherwise it would've been pig food, 'cause they're inedible for humans at least.

The library woman really wants to organize things in town, so she arranged the get together to carve together. I think that's nice. It's not about disrespecting the "lighting candles on november 1st I think...

Yeah, there is nothing wrong with trying something new.
It does not mean disrespecting the traditions or anything like that.


Today we dressed up halloween-style to go to the high school. And I asked my students why, if that was not a tradition of ours.
And they all froze. Poker face. They had no idea.
So I told them: We do it cause it's fun! :D

I love how naive they are sometimes xD

Dressing up and having fun is the whole extent to which the tradition has reached my country.
But that's alright, any excuse for having fun is good :D


The Crow!
That's a cult movie indeed, very cool one as far as I remember it.

But how do kids get scared to the point of crying?
I mean, they do know they are gonna be visiting monsters and other horrible creatures, don't they? So they kinda expect scary things to happen?

It's totally all about having fun! Dia de los Muertos also taught us that we can still respect dead relatives while partying, there's nothing wrong about it :)
Tbh I'm pretty much against religion getting a say in this X'D... I mean, it WAS pagan to begin with (Samhain anyone?) so why would the church get involved?

I won't be celebrating much tomorrow because busy sunday ahead, but on November 1st damn right I'm gonna lit up candles everywhere and dress up all nice and give offerings to my late family

I'm Galician (NW from Spain) which is a region which has celtic heritage.
In my language it's actually called Samain, which is just Samhain adapted to our phonetics.

The carving of pumpkins is traditional in some areas of Galicia (such as the town I'm living in now) but not in others (such as my hometown).
But it's probably because there is another important pagan tradition in early november (Magosto). I have the fondest memories about that one.

We are a region of strong pagan traditions.




And the Church got involved because they were so damn smart.
Instead of fighting against paganism they allowed people to practice it, but they disguised it as their own tradition.
Pagans could not deny it (otherwise they would be admiting they were doing something illegal) so the Church claims seemed like true.

It's short indeed, but that's part of the charm - the rarity is what makes something special!

Today we are celebrating my nephew's birthday, so I'm hoping it's gonna be a lot of fun.
Tomorrow we'll be back home. And I'll be glad for it :D