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Worldwide Festival Articles
9 festival article(s) returned for Worldwide
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Article Title: April Fool's Day
Festival Name: April Fool's Day
Festival Country: Worldwide
Festival Type(s): Traditional
It is difficult to trace how April Fool's Day originated, but it seems to be connected with the date of the New Year under the Julian calendar.
Article Title: A Medieval Christmas
Festival Name: Christmas
Festival Country: Worldwide
Festival Type(s): Christmas, Religious, Medieval
Let those who have no light in themselves light candles!' thundered the great Roman Tertullian. 'Let those over whom Hell fire is hanging, fix to their doors laurels doomed presently to burn. You are the light of the world, you are the tree ever green...make not your own house a temple.' Like the Puritans in later centuries, Tertullian urged the people to stop their so-called 'pagan' festivities at Christmas time.
Article Title: The Legends of Christmas Eve
Festival Name: Christmas
Festival Country: Worldwide
Festival Type(s): Christmas, Religious, Traditional
No night in all the year is so charged with the supernatural as Christmas Eve - or so the legends say.
Article Title: In Search of Santa Claus
Festival Name: Christmas
Festival Country: Worldwide
Festival Type(s): Religious
Twenty-six years ago I traveled to the North Pole in search of Santa Claus. I didn't get any further than Barrow, Alaska - the Arctic Ocean was completely frozen in huge mounds of ice - but the people there said I needn't go any further since no one lives at the North Pole. To say I was disappointed is an understatement. But my quest for Santa Claus continued until this year.
Article Title: When the Sun Dances
Festival Name: Easter
Festival Country: Worldwide
Festival Type(s): Easter, Religious
'The sun's dancing day and the earths' holy day' - this is Jacobean poet Nicolas Breton's description of Easter Day. The British believed in ancient times that the sun danced for joy as it rose at Easter to commemorate Christ's resurrection. In many parts of Wales crowds still climb just before the dawn to the highest point in the area to watch the sun 'dance' as it rises on Easter Day. In the Vale of Clwyd villagers used to dance three somersaults on the top of Dinas Bran, thereby greeting the sun rise.
Article Title: Floralia
Festival Name: Floralia - May Day
Festival Country: Worldwide
Festival Type(s): Floral, Pagan
The festival of Floralia began around the year 258 BCE. Pagan Romans celebrated for six days, from April 27th to May 3rd, honouring their Goddess of Spring and of Flowers, Flora.
Article Title: Hallowe'en - Its origins and history
Festival Name: Halloween
Festival Country: Worldwide
Festival Type(s): Halloween, Religious, Traditional
Encyclopaedia Britannica states that Hallowe'en is 'All Hallows' Eve or All Hallows' Evening, a holy or hallowed evening observed on October 31, the eve of All Saints' Day'. This Christian festival was first introduced in the 7th century CE, initially on May 13th.
Article Title: The Forty Days of Lent
Festival Name: Lent
Festival Country: Worldwide
Festival Type(s): Religious
Lent begins at midnight on Shrove Tuesday. The first day of Lent is known as 'Ash Wednesday'. On this day the Bishop would bless the hair shirts which penitents were to wear during Lent.
Article Title: Gearing up for the Next New Year
Festival Name: New Year
Festival Country: Worldwide
Festival Type(s): New Year
New Years was great. Friends, food, fun - it had it all. Too bad it only comes once a year. Or does it? With some travel and a hefty supply of good cheer, you can celebrate the New Year all year long.
Worldwide Festival Videos
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