on the 31st it is Halloween - it is a traditional festival in the UK and is now very popular in America. Do you celebrate this or do you have something similar which you celebrate on a different day?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween
2007-10-29 05:40:21 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Travel ➔ Europe (Continental) ➔ Turkey
It was actually a pagan festival originally - the Americans have changed the real meaning.
We have it becuase on this particular night magic is supposed to be more powerful so the lanterns are to keep evil magic away from your house
2007-10-29 06:04:59 · update #1
Young Turk - what are these things that you talk about? what are they in English?
We only believe in Witches here in Lancashire - have a look at this link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/lancashire/content/articles/2005/10/05/spooky_lancashire_witches_feature.shtml
2007-10-29 06:10:40 · update #2
Carmelo - we had this celebration in the UK before we had Christianity - it is an ancient Celtic/Pagan festival not a christian one
2007-10-29 22:03:54 · update #3
To the FAKE Blunt I-run - yeah I do know a lot about *****, I know alot about dickheads too and you appear to be one of them!
2007-10-31 22:05:27 · update #4
Just wanted to share (as much information as possible) with others hope u don't mind :) Please note that in Turkey, some people (mostly in the big cities) do celebrate Halloween :) it's FUN
Halloween's origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced sow-in).
The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom, and northern France, celebrated their new year on November 1. This day marked the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of the dark, cold winter, a time of year that was often associated with human death. Celts believed that on the night before the new year, the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred. On the night of October 31, they celebrated Samhain, when it was believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth. In addition to causing trouble and damaging crops, Celts thought that the presence of the otherworldly spirits made it easier for the Druids, or Celtic priests, to make predictions about the future. For a people entirely dependent on the volatile natural world, these prophecies were an important source of comfort and direction during the long, dark winter.
To commemorate the event, Druids built huge sacred bonfires, where the people gathered to burn crops and animals as sacrifices to the Celtic deities.
During the celebration, the Celts wore costumes, typically consisting of animal heads and skins, and attempted to tell each other's fortunes. When the celebration was over, they re-lit their hearth fires, which they had extinguished earlier that evening, from the sacred bonfire to help protect them during the coming winter.
2007-10-29 06:56:39 · answer #1 · answered by .:::Niko:::. 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
No, it's not celebrated in Turkey. There are a handful of people that will dress up and make a party out of it. Some people have picked it up from traveling to other countries, but in a whole, it is not celebrated.
2007-10-29 05:55:41 · answer #2 · answered by Thomas M 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It depends on people. We used to give some costume parties during Halloween in Istanbul just for fun.
And when i was in high school we used to celebrate at school. We used to have a lot of fun.
i like Halloween. I like all festivities.
2007-10-29 12:23:46 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well Halloween has been celebrated in the Usa since I was born. Most countries have picked it up. To my knowledge the only countries that don't celebrate it are the Bahamas.
2007-10-29 05:44:18 · answer #4 · answered by Iris's Lover aka Garrett O. 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Glad to see that this nordic, morbid, dark celebration does not exist in Turkey. It is mostly an Anglo-Saxon thing.
As for me, I prefer the Roman Saturnalia which has come down to us over the centuries as a fun, bright celebration of life re: the Carnival in Rio. Music, dance, love, gaity, laughter. Not skeletons, death, and morbidity.
2007-10-29 09:51:51 · answer #5 · answered by emiliosailez 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have been to Australia and Turkey. And, they do not "celebrate" it like we do. Kids do not go trick or treating. Some people (adults) dress up and go to the dance clubs in costume over the weekend or on Halloween night.
2007-10-31 23:13:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
We heard it- thanks to Hollywood :) - but it hasn't become a "tradition" to celebrate it.
Recently, kids in the kindergarten's started to do the celebrate it at school- dressing up and making up etc but it is not more than a game yet .
As far I can think of, we don't have a similar festival like it .
2007-10-29 07:19:02 · answer #7 · answered by Ipek K 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
oh which you will no longer have a christmas party because of fact that is too offensive, then you definitely can no longer have a trip party because of fact that is too offensive, so now yo u can basically have a wintry climate party. there is not any such ingredient as a fireman anymore. there is basically firefighters.
2016-10-14 08:05:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi Lyns,
I know Halloween, but we do not celebrate it,
Good Evening ...
2007-10-29 05:44:26 · answer #9 · answered by Tanju 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Yep, but I'm in the US so it doesn't really count :)
My cousins/aunts/uncles in Turkey know what it is though, but they don't celebrate it.
2007-10-29 09:17:51 · answer #10 · answered by Qu'est ce que tu penses? 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋