[TUHS] Re: Test, test

Steffen Nurpmeso wrote in <20231124194137.XQKAUc9i(a)steffen%sdaoden.eu>: |Will Senn wrote in | <4d39f7fd-aa85-429b-9276-2c115b5d3d08(a)gmail.com>: ||On 11/24/23 02:16, Hellwig Geisse wrote: ||> On Thu, 2023-11-23 at 21:58 -0500, Norman Wilson wrote: ... ||> In Germany it's called "Erntedankfest", ||> on the first Sunday in October. ... |for the kids. But unfortunately we all forget our own history, |and that is funny female witches enthusiastically riding their |broom in the night to May 1st, which i find a much more sympathic |and life fostering event. Walpurgisnacht that is. And shall you search Google out of interest: i see pictures of people who reuse their Halloween costume. That is not how it was when i was young. (Though a normal witch can look quite scary by itself; ie from famous omnipresent pictures i think Helena Bonham Carter played such a one, she was capable to get it from somewhere inside out.) We also have a quite famous teenage girl witch, Bibi Blocksberg i think ... witches can be good, too! That "Blocksberg" seems to come from the German mountain where, and everybody (used to) know(s) that, they make huge fires and celebrate all the night to May 1st: the "Brocken" in the Harz mountains. Ie block+mountain, and brocken=chunk. (Just in case someone would actually search.) (Other than that it seems to me, from bicycle rides, that the American tradition of eating those poor ugly birds has not truly ended up as a German one. We had some farmers with those birds running on green soil, in the Odenwald where i drive, but no more now. I have not seen them in the last couple of years, at least. Special thanksgiving meals i cannot recall belong to us here?) --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)