Ek boer nog steeds lekker op my Farmtown plasie, en nou vir Halloween het hulle die oulikste goed uitgebring

Halloween

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Halloween (also spelled Hallowe’en) is an annual holiday celebrated on
October 31.

It has roots in the Celtic festival of Samhain and the Christian holy day of All Saints’ Day. It is largely a secular celebration, but some have expressed strong feelings about perceived religious overtones.  Irish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America during Ireland’s Great Famine of the 1840s.

The day is often associated with orange and black, and is strongly associated with symbols like the jack-o’-lantern. Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, wearing costumes and attending costume parties, ghost tours, bonfires, visiting haunted attractions, pranks, reading scary stories, and watching horror films.

 History

Snap-Apple Night by Daniel Maclise showing a Halloween party in Blarney, Ireland, in 1832. The young children on the right bob for apples. A couple in the center play Snap-Apple, which involves retrieving an apple hanging from a string.

The couples at left play divination games. These games are common at Irish Halloween parties still todayHalloween has origins in the ancient Celtic festival known as Samhain pronounced: sow- wen] (Irish pronunciation: [ˈsˠaunʲ]; from the Old Irish samhain, possibly derived from Gaulish samonios).

The festival of Samhain is a celebration of the end of the harvest season in Gaelic culture, and is sometimes regarded as the “Celtic New Year”.  Traditionally, the festival was a time used by the ancient Celtic pagans to take stock of supplies and slaughter livestock for winter stores.

The ancient Celts believed that on October 31 the boundary between the world and the otherworld dissolved, and the dead become dangerous for the living by causing problems such as sickness or damage to crops. The festival frequently involved bonfires into which the bones of slaughtered livestock were thrown.[citation needed]

The wearing of costumes and masks at Halloween goes back to the Celtic traditions of attempting to copy the evil spirits or to placate them. In Scotland the dead were impersonated by young men with masked, veiled or blackened faces, while dressed in white.

Origin of name

The term Halloween, originally spelled Hallowe’en, is shortened from All Hallows’ Eve: eve is an abbreviation of even, an older word for evening.  Halloween gets -een as a contraction of even to e’en], from the Old English term eallra hālgena ǣfen meaning “All Hallows’ Evening”, as it is the eve of “All Hallows’ Day”, which is now also known as All Saints’ Day.

It was a day of religious festivities in various northern European pagan traditions, until Popes Gregory III and Gregory IV moved the old Christian feast of All Saints’ Day from May 13 (which had itself been the date of a pagan holiday, the Feast of the Lemures) to November 1.

In the 9th century, the Church measured the day as starting at sunset, in accordance with the Florentine calendar. Although All Saints’ Day is now considered to occur one day after Halloween, the two holidays were at that time celebrated on the same day. Halloween is thought of as a time when the living and the dead can be together again

Trick-or-treating and guising

Typical Halloween scene in Dublin, Ireland.Trick-or-treating is a customary celebration for children on Halloween. Children go in costume from house to house, asking for treats such as candy or sometimes money, with the question, “Trick or treat?”

The word “trick” refers to a (mostly idle) threat to perform mischief on the homeowners or their property if no treat is given. In some parts of Ireland and Scotland children still go guising. In this custom the child performs some sort of show, i.e. sings a song or tells a ghost story, in order to earn their treats.

 Daarsy, nou weet julle omtrent alles oor Halloween!!

is dit al wat ek gaan doen

Nikta het die mooiste wordle gemaak, en dit het my laat dink aan my most embarrassing moment Vrydag middag toe ek dink ek gaan gou lekker shop by die SPAR  

Seun het gevra of ek gou by die video winkel kan stop en die movies gaan haal wat hy graag wou sien.  Geen probleem want ek moes gou SPAR toe gaan om ‘n paar goedjies te gaan koop.

Ek stop toe gou by die winkels en eers sukkel ek om parkering te kry want dis mos nou Vrydag middag en almal wil mos nou by die winkels wees.  Eerste stop die video winkel, kry die movies en stap oor na die SPAR toe.  Ek kry vir my ‘n trollie en gaan eers by die SPAR in.  Ek stap nog so lekker en die volgende oomblik tik iemand my op my skouer.  Die swart dame sê vir my.  “Mevrou, jou broek is geskeur.  En dis regtig baie groot”

Huh….

Ek draai my kop so en jou wrintie waar, my broek is geskeur van bo tot omtrent by my knieg en al wat jy sien is panty en lemoenskille   (As ek nou daaraan dink kan ek net dankbaar wees ek dra nie g-strings nie )

Ek staan daar, en al die emosies hierbo in my wordle gaan deur my.  Ek probeer die groot gapende gat vasvat en probeer aanstap om gou die paar goedjies te koop maar nee, toe sal daar nou ‘n oom en sy vrou verby loop en hy offer om die gat vir my toe te hou. Tsk!

Die storie van die gapende gat vashou wil nie werk nie, maar of ek nou uitloop en eers na die inkopies is seker maar dieselfde!!

Die swart dame wat my kom bewus maak het van die petaljie kom toe weer na my toe en offer haar my trui en sê ek kan maar vir haar bring sodra ek klaar was.

Ek dink toe by myself…. Van hier af moet ek nog kleuterskool toe ook en ek het nou regtig nie vir dit kans gesien nie.

Ek los toe die trollie net daar, loop uit die SPAR uit langsaan na A C Kermans (Julle weet mos by nou al dis een van my gunsteling boetieks en gaan soek ‘n nuwe broek vir my.  Die kleur wat ek toe kry pas nou glad nie by my bloes wat ek aangehad het nie, en koop toe sommer vir my ‘n nuwe bloes ook  (Dis nou maar een van die min kere wat ek tog wel iets vir my sal koop).  Ek gaan na die kassier toe en wil betaal, ek wens julle kon hulle gesigte gesien het, ek stap dan nou met heel ander klere uit as wat ek mee ingekom het   Ek betaal toe vir my aankope en is toe vinnig terug supermark toe om gou my inkopies klaar te maak….

Die dame… het ‘n boks tjoklits gekry

Ns…. ek wonder nou nog waar en wanneer die broek geskeur het, by die werk, o jinne, dan dooi ek nog 10 ander dooies as dit wel so was   of het dit gebeur toe ek uit die motor geklim het toe ek by die supermark gestop het.