Festivals, traditions, customs and habits in the UK, the USA and the ČR
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Festivals, traditions, customs and habits in the UK, the USA and the ČR
UK
New Year’s Eve & New Year’s Day
New Year’s Eve is eve before New Year’s Day
People traditionally take a shower in the fountains on Trafalgar Square
in Scotland called Hogmanay
Valentine’s day
many people send a card to the one they love or someone whom they have fallen in love with
these cards are usually unsigned - so people spent a lot of time on trying to guess who has sent them
Lent1
the day before lent is called is Pancake Day (Shrove Tuesday) - people usually eat pancakes
pancake is a flat cake made from thin batter2 (milk, flour and eggs) and cooked on both sides usually in a frying pan
in some towns hold pancake races on this day - people run through the streets holding a frying pan and throwing the pancake in the air and who drops the pancake looses the race
Lent starts with Ash3 Wednesday
this habit refers to the time when Christ went into desert and fasted4 for forty days
today this habit is not so usual - people are not able to stay forty days without food - and from this habit is today only eating pancakes
Easter
first Sunday after first spring full moon
Palm Sunday - the Sunday before Easter celebrated in commemoration of Christ’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem
Good Friday - eating cross buns5 - bought in bakers, toasted and eaten with butter
Easter Sunday - celebrate the idea of new birth - giving each other chocolate eggs
Easter Monday (holiday) people travel to seaside - watch sport events such as football or horse-racing
May Day
1st May - celebrate the end of winter
public holiday in honour of working people
people made Maypoles - tall ribbon-wreathed6 pole7 - usually forming a centres for dances
dancers are dancing traditional dances such as a Morris dance
Halloween
Hallowe’en means “holy evening” - old Celtic feast
31st October - the eve of All Saints’ Day or All Hallows Day
people mainly children are dressed up in disguise8 to pretend that they are ghosts or witches
connected with witches9 and ghosts10
people cut horrible faces from potatoes, gourd11 and other vegetables and put candle inside, which shines through the eyes, nose and mouth
outside the house are huge, orange, carved pumpkins with candles lit inside
some games such as trying to eat an apple from a bucket of water without using hands
Guy Fawkes Night
5th November - from history (see ↓)
people made fireworks and bonfires12 and throw a dummy13 into it - dummy is called “guy” (like Guy Fawkes)
children collect money to have fireworks - they say “Penny for the guy”
now many fireworks are organised by the local councils to avoid the danger of accidents
history: In 1605 King James I. was on the throne. As a Protestant, he was very unpopular with Roman Catholics. Some of them planned to blow up the Houses of Parliament on 5th November of that year, when the King was going to open Parliament. Under the House of Lords they had stored thirty-six barrels of gun powder14, which were to be exploded by a man called Guy Fawkes. However one of the plotters15 spoke about these plans and Fawkes was discovered, arrested and later hanged.