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From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>>
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Subject: Traditions<br>
<br>
Dear (silent) Lowlanders,<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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:<br>
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<ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Klaus Groth's poem about the
bog land (with an audio version):<br>
<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/groth/moor.htm">http://lowlands-l.net/groth/moor.htm</a></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Klaus Groth's poem about a
haunted bog land (and infanticide):<br>
<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/groth/moor2.htm">http://lowlands-l.net/groth/moor2.htm</a></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Klaus Groth's poem about a
haunted house:<br>
<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/groth/gruli.htm">http://lowlands-l.net/groth/gruli.htm</a></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Klaus Groth's poem about a
haunted (guilt-ridden?) person:<br>
<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/groth/waak.htm">http://lowlands-l.net/groth/waak.htm</a></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">I think it
would be really nice if we had something about Halloween and other such things
in our Traditions presentation:</span></p>
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<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/traditions/">http://lowlands-l.net/traditions/</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">And talking
about holidays, best wishes for the remainder of Sukkot (one of my favorites)
to our Jewish Lowlanders!<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Reinhard/Ron<br>(still having the flu after a relapse ...)</span></p>
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