Halloween in Poland?

No - we wait until bonfire night and kids stick fireworks up cats bottoms....

The house I live in is more than 130 years old and I sometimes think it is haunted. Haven't seen anything tonight though.

The little Monsters are starting to ring my doorbell...
Better not be any bags of dog crap on fire..

we are getting no one this year. It's dead this year.

Why do you think it's haunted?
There's this abandoned house I went to with my friends last week at night. It was very windy and we heard something banging and my friends were getting scared, but since I was the driver I had the control when to leave.
So we stayed.
We had cameras with us, because they can detect spirits. I took a picture first. Then we sat in my van and listened to weird noises. later my friend took pictures at the exact spot. When we developed the pictures, I didn't see anything strange on mine, but her's had this orb sitting on the doorstep.
The house is over 100 years old sitting on a dead end road surrounded by miles and miles of corn-fields.....Spooky.

Zaduszki are celebrated on the 2 October, and have their roots in a pagan holiday called "Dziady". On that day our ancestors were meting on the graves of their relatives to feast and pray for them. Aside from sharing the food with their ancestors they were also setting up bonfires on their graves, paths and crossroads to keep their dead worm and show the wandering restless souls the way home. The other tradition was to set bonfire on the grave of a person who died in a tragic way, as it was believed that that person may become a vampire, and it was just a precaution to stop the daemon from haunting their living family members.(vampires are typical Slavic daemons, and maybe when I have some free time, I will write something more about them)

Besides at that day Slavs believed that earth was full of wandering restless souls, and some people were summing them in order to help them achieve redemption, etc…

At present some of the old tradition prevailed in Zaduszki, like for example lighting candles on the graves of ones relatives.

Do people normally greet each other with Happy all saints day? How are people greeted these two days? Po polsku

I personally don't treat this holiday as a sad one, but more as a mystic one. Every year I'm attending a mass on cemetery on afternoon, then I eat my dinner with my family, after that I usually go visit some kind of spooky place with my friends where we tell each other scary stories, then it's cemetery again (it looks really beautiful after dark with all those lighten up candles) and I usually end up this day drinking beer in a pub.

Actually I have to go now. Have a good All Saints Day everybody!

No. I think that it would be considered a boner.

So there aren't any types of greetings for this holiday... Just give them a boner. I don't think my gf's mom or dad would like that

No... I don't know of any.

OK, it's really time for me to go get drunk! See you later fisz.

have fun!

Its almost that time of year again.... BOO!!!

where I am from Mischief night is celebrated on the 4th of November, before Bonfire night.
Hallowe'en is also popular, I like it better then christmas

31st October Samhain, Celtic new year, the church nicked cos the Pagans had all the best partys

5th November Guy Fawkes night, celebrating Guy Fawkes getting hung drawn and quatered in 1601 for trying to blow up the houses of parliament..the only man to enter parliament with true intent..

I've just received email from a friend in Poland. I asked him if in Poland people celebrate Hallowen. He said - well, kids like the tradition, but adults think they try to mock them or something and some of them curse them ;). I thought it was funny - I think in Poland it's not a popular tradition yet. Maybe it's better...

its not cwlwbrated in poland they wait untill today all saints day its a holiday and they go to chaple and relax alday! hope that clears it up!

My gf carved a Jack o Lantern in Poznan and a priest told her it was no good because it attracts the dead :/

Last night we had a mass in church and CCD students made saints out of pumpkins and brought them up to the altar. It was funny and people were laughing during mass. You would never see this in Poland. What is ironic, is that our priest is from Poland.

it's not only the Polish Church that doesn't accept this tradition, which isn't a tradition here, just implanted "by force" (Hollywood movies, plus our local mass media that make more popular than it could be)

Anti - Halloween will be celebrated in Turin
23 Oct. 2007

The priests of Turin eparchy intend to organize a kind of Anti-Halloween on October 31st, as it is reported in La Stampa newspaper. The feast will be called "The Night of All Saints and the Mystery" (Notte dei Santi e dei Misteri). Adults and children disguised as angels will distribute white chocolate to the passers-by. The feast must become an answer to Halloween, which acquires greater and greater vogue and is criticized by the Church. The priests want to organize a joyous and bright, "angelic" feast instead of the night of the ghosts, horrors, terrifying costumes and intimidation of the passers-by.

Children won't demand sweeties from adults, but will distribute them. Together with the animators dressed in white, they will invite all comers to take part in the Night of All Saints and the Mystery, which will end with the festival divine service in St. Pelagia's Church.

(http://www.travelime.com/news/359/)

Borring....:)


This is similar to our ghost costume which eventually spread to many other horror creatures. A white sheet over your head with 2 eye holes. A classic ghost costume.

and sometimes an unhappy mother as she looks on in despair and anger at her torn/cut bedsheets...

Yes, that was always a problem :)

he wanted to do away the government and was caught in the act
but yeh he was catholic and he was hanged on the early hours on the following day

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_fawkes

That is the king and his parliament, all in one go.


I hadn't thought they did away with him quite so quickly.

I went to a graveyard yesterday (I mean today 12 am) with a girl but we didnt see anyone or anything :-( but it was still fun

I nearly ploughed into three girls in witches costumes on my bicycle yesterday evening.
I was on my bicycle, not the witch girls. That would have been strange - where did I get that plough, how did they get my bicycle.
Always crack the bottoms of your eggshells to stop the witches making boats or little baloon-baskets.
It's a good thing I was careful and didn't run anyone over or I might have been on the receiving end of some voodoo...
or some foul-mouthed little kids.

Taken out of context...ahem

What is Polish for:

oooOOOOoooOOOOooo

???

edit: here's my guess:
uuuUUUUuuuUUUUuuu

and my second guess:
óóóÓÓÓÓóóóÓÓÓÓóóó

i was at a disco last night, and i saw about 4 people dressed up out of 200 or so ppl.

Halloween in PL is nothing like North America.