23) Holidays and traditions in the GB and USA
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OCTOBER
Halloween
o 31
st of October
o originally from USA in the last 10 yrs celebrated in GB too
o usually children are wearing costumes of some magic or scary creature
o children are saying “trick or treat“ (if people don´t give to children treat they do them
some horrible trick = toilet paper on the house and soap on the windows (or both :D))
o Jack-o-lantern = is carved pumpkin (is used as a porch)
History the day before all saints day, all ghosts and all witches are free
in the history people were locking themselves up and were scared of all ghost
of the dead ones (they had horse shoes on the doors)
NOVEMBER
Guy Fawkes Day
o 5
th of November
o GB
o Guy Fawk
planned to blow up the Parliament with the king James I., but he was
arrested => his body was quartered => sended to another place => showed to
people as warning
o children make a straw figure of Guy => go to streets and ask people for money
“Penny for the Guy”, in the evening they burn the figures, fireworks and parties in the
evening
★ Thanksgiving day
○ USA only
○ forth Thursday in November
○ people celebrate the Pilgrim Fathers (who established USA) and their first crop /
harvest (they were helped by the Indians), celebration of the beginning of the USA,
people eat turkey
DECEMBER
Christmas
○ 24
th of December - Christmas Eve
work day but it ends at 12, family goes together
GB - Father Christmas
● Xmas stocking (at mantel piece or at the bed)
● bigger gifts are under the tree