[AskEurope] Is Halloween a big deal in your country?

CAVOK, 8 months ago

Not a big thing here in Sweden either, although shops do their best to promote it. It gets a little mixed up with “Allahelgona” (all saints day) which is close. Halloween is on the 31st of Oct iirc, and Allahelgonahelgen is on the first Saturday after the 31st of Oct. On allahelgona you’re supposed to remember your dead, so a lot of people visit graveyards and put our candles. It’s usually very beautiful.

muggedTassi, 8 months ago

Slightly off topic, but why is there no AskEurope instance (is that the right word?) on lemmy yet? Or am I just too incompetent to find it?

Blaze, 8 months ago

There is no such community yet, the current flow of content allows to have both the news and the AskEurope questions here.

You might ask here how the community feels about the idea, that could be a good indication on what to do next

gkpy, 8 months ago

growing up in former eastern germany we had sankt martin’s day (11. nov) as “laternchen” (small latern). it involves kids going door to door and singing songs in exchange for candy.

when halloween started appearing it was too close in date and too similar but seen as “worse” since the “trick or treat” thing seems more bratty lol