Welcome to this blog after a long break.
Halloween is here at last and as I do every single year,I'll give my view on it.
I was raised into a generation to which Halloween was something only to be seen in American films of the late 70s and 80s.
However,I was lucky enough as to end up living in Northern Ireland,where the Halloween tradition as an evolution of the Shamáin Celtic festival is supposed to have been originated at first.
Halloween is not an American tradition but one the Irish immigrants brought into the States.
I learned about all that during my stay near Londonderry (or Derry) for Halloween.When you walk through fields,next to graves in churches in the city centre,covered by the mist and with ravens as pedestrians,waiting on traffic lights posts to cross the road,then Halloween makes sense.
Therefore,I do not believe in the "imported" Halloween through mass media but in that ancient festival Celts were fond of.
I'll stick to gachas and buñuelos,what really makes sense to me in my culture.
Here I post a link to what Halloween should be here,something deprived of terror.Liam Neeson,an actor from Northern Ireland and Count Drakko,one of my childhood heroes.
Enjoy the video
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Como curiosidad,Drakko hace un guiño a una de las composiciones más famosas del norteamericano
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Counting Halloween style.Good fun!
