Other countries have Halloween, Sweden has Easter witches or Easter hags, the tradition I would think strikes foreigners as the most odd one of the ones mentioned above. Swedish children dress up in rags and old clothes, too big skirts and headscarves, paint rosy cheeks and freckles in their faces, carry a broom and go trick or treating in their neighbourhood, handing out paintings and drawings in the hope of getting lollies in return.
Halloween is stupid. It has become huge in this nation of idiots and TV hype.
Does that mean “It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Sven”?
My family doesn’t celebrate halloween either.
We DO celebrate Reformation Day.
Sweden also has both Walpurgis Night (May Day Eve) and Midsummer’s Eve. The end of October gets pretty nippy for out of doors activities up there, so they have more holidays during the spring and summer. The countries up there tend to use Maypole dancing and huge bonfires to celebrate. I am of Finnish descent. and I attended a Finnish type celebration of Midsummer’s Eve, known as juhannus (Saint John the Baptist feast). It involved feasting, dancing, and a huge bonfire.
Cute kids. They do not look like young prostitutes or Hannah Montana aka American Halloween.
Just about every vacant store of a decent size round these parts is a new halloween costume store just for the season. I can think of 5 or 6! What a waste. Hope & Change Depression.