Halloween

[rene_starko]

Had a great day yesterday, saw some friends, had lots of wine and watched The League of Gentlemen (with Mark Gatiss & co) on a big(ish) screen.

Comments

[van]

Lovely pictures, as always. Do you celebrate much Halloween there?

[rene_starko]

It's getting more & more popular. There's always a need for such holiday. We used to celebrate Christmas Eve or Night before Christmas which was very similar (with trick-or-treating but without a pumpkin:)). There's even a famous story by Russian/Ukrainian writer Gogol Christmas Eve about a village blacksmith and the devil stealing the moon (evil spirits could do anything they want the night before Christmas). This tradition died out in the 1950s and left a gap. In the 1990s a few Western holidays became very popular here very quickly - Halloween, Valentine's Day and (you'll be surprised) Saint Patrick's Day. My Mom made my first Halloween costume when I was twelve, it was 1995, I think. She dressed me up as a little devil :)

It's a very long answer for a simple question, I know :)