11-01-2012, 08:53 AM
(11-01-2012, 03:33 AM)Hoeloe Wrote: Also people often forget that there's a twinned holiday of similar meaning and origin on the other side of the year called Walpurgis Night, but apparently people largely ignore that one.
Walpurgisnacht fist bump.
It's kind of different to Halloween though, aside from the obvious bits about it being the spring festival and being half a year apart, at least in the german tradition it's the night that witches and warlocks are supposed to meet.
As you can imagine it's popular in occult circles, aside from any spooky or devil-worshipy implications people might give it it's a good excuse for people to get together and socialise.
It doesn't get celebrated much in most countries because it isn't commercial, and of course there's the culture gap, essentially because it isn't a christian holiday and can't be retconned into one it doesn't have widespread appeal in the states.
But to be honest I don't think that's exactly a bad thing.