LL-L "Traditional" 2008.10.14 (01) [E]

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Traditions

Dear (silent) Lowlanders,

As most of you know, there are only about two weeks left until Halloween.
Also, as you know, in addition to its Pagan and Wicca equivalents and
overlaid Christian All Hallows Even, there is the popularized tradition of a
fun occasion on which to tickle the fancy and fears of children and the
young at heart. This British tradition that came to be stronger in North
America and in recent years has been popularized (commercialized) in other
parts of the world seems to combine traditions that in the old continental
Lowlands used to be separate, for instance the autumn lantern festival, the
New Years busking tradition and the witches and ghouls legends of Northern
Germany. Perhaps some of you care to discuss some of this.

As I've done on earlier occasion, I am giving you below some links to my own
Halloween-relevant web presentations, all of them in Low Saxon with English
translations:



   - Klaus Groth's poem about the bog land (with an audio version):
   http://lowlands-l.net/groth/moor.htm
   - Klaus Groth's poem about a haunted bog land (and infanticide):
   http://lowlands-l.net/groth/moor2.htm
   - Klaus Groth's poem about a haunted house:
   http://lowlands-l.net/groth/gruli.htm
   - Klaus Groth's poem about a haunted (guilt-ridden?) person:
   http://lowlands-l.net/groth/waak.htm



I think it would be really nice if we had something about Halloween and
other such things in our Traditions presentation:


http://lowlands-l.net/traditions/



And talking about holidays, best wishes for the remainder of Sukkot (one of
my favorites) to our Jewish Lowlanders!

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron
(still having the flu after a relapse ...)

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