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Don't forget the reason for the season this year. (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] 3 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

halloween didn't exist when i was a kid. but easter did. so it's not the existing that makes it about jesus, but something else entirely

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  • [โ€“] [S] 5 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

    How old are you??

    Halloween is 2,000 years old!

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

    halloween was imported here by a costume store in 1997. there are newspaper articles about it.

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  • [โ€“] [S] 4 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    Wow, I had no idea! Just looked it up (assuming you're in New Zealand) and read about this.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

    no it happened in multiple countries in the 90s, it was very much a us-centric thing before that

    edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Halloween most of europe actually

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 child)

    Yeah in the states I seem to remember stories being orientated around Halloween turning* into to much destruction and a woman in Kansas (Elizabeth Krebs) in the early 1900s started throwing large Halloween parties and inviting all the kids so they'd all get together party late into the night and people wouldn't have the time or energy to go around destroying shit.

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