love it, all the different grapheme jack-o-lanterns!
fun fact: "hillo" means jam in finnish, and Anselm Hollo is a finn.
hallowe(')en is a very new addition to Finland's fest repertoire, especially
in its snazzy-esque american iteration (trick-or-treat, pumpkins, &c); there
used to be a harvest-type festival here several centuries ago, called
"kekri", which was by some accounts considered even more important than
christmas (makes sense, since kekri is a pagan celebration, vs. CHRISTmas).
it involved similar evil spirit -type cleansing & roaming and a lot of odd
traditional folkloric characters who would go from door to door dressed up &
asking for food &/or vodka. I like the idea of something with roots in
ancient finnish culture, because there aren't that many elements of a true,
varied national history in contemporary Helsinki.
KS
On 31 October 2010 20:04, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
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