2006-10-11 09:32:06 · 7 answers · asked by Meshendia E 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
The various activities traditional to Halloween are mostly associated with the idea of obtaining good fortune and foretelling the future. Samhain was a time when it was customary for the pagans to use the occult practice of divination to determine the weather for the coming year, the crop expectations, and even who in the community would marry whom and in what order.
The idea behind ducking, dooking or bobbing for apples seems to have been that snatching a bite from the apple enables the person to grasp good fortune. Unmarried people would attempt to take a bite out of an apple bobbing in a pail of water, or suspended on a string. The first person to do so was believed to be the next to marry.
2006-10-11 09:36:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bobbing for apples (also known as 'ducking for apples' or, in Australia and New Zealand, 'bobbing for plops' or 'bobbing for ploppers') is a game customarily played on Halloween, but many people have looked upon this game as unsanitary. The game is played by filling a tub or a large basin with water and putting apples in the water. Because apples are less dense than water, they will float at the surface. Players (usually children) then "bob" or "duck" for the apples, by trying to catch one with their teeth. Use of hands is not allowed.
The custom originated among the Celts as part of their celebrations of the Samhain season, celebrations that grew into our modern Halloween. The original custom generally took place during large gatherings of people. Apples were associated with love or fertility goddesses; the first person to catch an apple would be the next one to marry -- a tradition that echoes the modern "throwing of the bouquet" at weddings.
2006-10-11 09:39:44 · answer #2 · answered by Soda Popinski 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bobbing For Apples
2016-10-08 11:32:09 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't mean a thing. It's just a game for kids where everyone can win, and everyone can laugh at how silly everyone else looks playing it.
Now, "pin the tail on the donkey" has some satanic origins, and "blind man's bluff" was a game that Van Gogh originated to play with naked prostitutes, but bobbing for apples is just what it looks like.
As Freud said, "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."
2006-10-11 09:35:45 · answer #4 · answered by open4one 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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What does bobbing for apples on Halloween mean or symbolize? What's the meaning for it?
2015-08-02 05:28:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The custom originated among the Celts as part of their celebrations of the Samhain season, celebrations that grew into our modern Halloween. The original custom generally took place during large gatherings of people. Apples were associated with love or fertility goddesses; the first person to catch an apple would be the next one to marry -- a tradition that echoes the modern "throwing of the bouquet" at weddings.
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2006-10-11 09:40:26 · answer #6 · answered by jsfurr1981 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Never normally go out on that night,,and I would get very wet if I tried apple bobbing
2016-03-18 06:15:07 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's nothing more than a game, no symbology or hidden meanings.
2006-10-11 09:41:00 · answer #8 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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I want to do this apple till its wet....Z
2016-04-02 08:28:17 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You know, how your head bobbs up and down in the water?
2006-10-11 09:34:27 · answer #10 · answered by star23grace 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋