Princess Madeleine of Sweden shared a new photo of her daughters on her Instagram account for Halloween 2024. The photo shows her daughters, Princess Leonore and Princess Adrienne, dressed up in their Halloween costumes. Captioning the snap, Princess Madeleine wrote: 'It's a spooky Halloween this year!' Halloween is a holiday celebrated each year on October 31.
I am probably in the minority, if not the only one, I don't like Halloween celebrations.
ReplyDeleteI am with you!
DeleteI think it is an USA tradition but not European, donot know it’s origin nor meaning
No not the minority Mary! Globally, it’s hardly “celebrated” - although widespread in the USA and perhaps Canada (?). If you’re not used to it, as I’m not, it’s a strange thing for people to dress up to look scary, and for people to hang skulls etc from front fences. I’m very much into autumn celebrations and pumpkins for soup, but not at all into dressing my kids to be scary. Luckily we still have many different cultures and celebrations across the world, because that diversity is so interesting and important; although globalisation, commercialisation and social media do meld traditions so that it seems we are all focusing on the same events. - Grace
DeleteCelebration is okay, don’t know why one would post costume photos. I prefer to see their faces
DeleteIf I'm not mistaken it actually comes from a European tradition (a mix from old Christian and Celtic practices), and was imported to the USA in the 1800's through Irish and Scottish immigrants.
DeleteNo, and these girls don't look like they enjoy Halloween either.
ReplyDeleteYou are not alone. I don’t like them either!
ReplyDeleteMaybe the girls try to look spooky ... Halloween isn't my cup of tea neither ... I'm european with relatives in the US and they dress up like actors of a movie with mottos like Adam's family every year ...
ReplyDeleteGoogle says, the tradition was brought overseas from GI's ...
ReplyDeleteHalloween is based upon a very old celtic (and thus european) tradition. On this special evening the dead and the living ones mingle. The name means "All hollows ("holy") eve (evening)". I love it.
ReplyDeleteThe hero of this feast is Jack O'lantern. He tricked the devil. Now he cannot enter hell nor heaven (because he was a cheater). With his lantern in his hand he is searching for a place to rest his soul.
Glad Halloween!
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