[vinnomot] Happy Halloween??

Thursday, October 30, 2008

[vinnomot] Happy Halloween??

31 October 2008

Mohammad Gani (USA)

Happy Halloween??

Bangbandhu and his daughter

Wishing you a scary, I mean an exciting & Happy Halloween!!! What kind of street does a ghost like best? Probably a dead end! Are we, 150 million people of Bangladesh there yet ?

I feel like scaring more of our 2 Halloween ladies (Khaleda and Hasina) than any other ghost that could possibly exist! These 2 devils (or evils) have transformed every night/every day of this poor nation as a Halloween night. May God save this nation from these to 2 witches, from all toady and metamorphic/native political scholars throughout the world?

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Shortcut !

Two friends were walking home late at night after a Halloween Party. They decided to take a shortcut through a neighborhood cemetery to keep with their spirits of the spooky holiday.

Right in the middle of the cemetery, they were startled by a tap-tap-tapping noise coming from the misty shadows. When they got closer, they saw that it was an old man with a hammer and chisel, chipping away at one of the headstones.

"Holy cow, Mister," one of the friends said after catching his breath, "You scared us half to death. We thought you were a ghost!"

No answer from the old man.

"What are you doing working here so late at night?" the other friend asked.

The old man just kept chiseling away.

"Hello?" the friend said. "Why are you chiseling that headstone?"

The old man finally mumbled, "Those stupid fools spelled my name wrong!!"

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Halloween originated in the British Isles out of the Pagan (European) Celtic celebration of Samhain [Such as celebrating the end of the harvest and honoring the dead]. It goes back to as far as 5 B.C. Celts believed that transition times (say, season change!) when things change from one state to another had magical properties. They also believed that the "worlds of the dead" and the living were closest at the time of Samhain and that the spirits of the dead were freed to travel to the living and mingled with the living on this day. The Celts left food at their doors to encourage good spirits and wore masks to scare off the bad ones. . The ancient Gaels believed that on October 31, now known as Halloween, the boundary between the alive and the deceased dissolved and the dead become dangerous for the living by causing problems such as sickness or damaged crops.

Here in US, the early settlers were all Protestant and Halloween was technically a Catholic holiday. The original colonists in US found any such celebration immoral, especially a Catholic one. In fact, celebrating even Christmas in the Massachusetts (A Colony) was once illegal, punishable by banishment or death. After the American Revolution, Halloween slowly started catching on in USA over time. Most of the US was then farmland and the people were too far spread out to share different celebrations from Europe. Any chance to get together was looked forward to with excitements. The festivals would frequently involve bonfires into which bones of slaughtered livestock were thrown. Costumes and Mask were also worn at the festivals in an attempt to mimic the evil spirits or placate them.

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Thank you.

Mohammad Gani

Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

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