Spooky 👻 Halloween 🎃 Dark 🦇 Horror 🔪 Memes

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[–] lime@feddit.nu 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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[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world [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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[–] lime@feddit.nu 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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[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 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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[–] lime@feddit.nu 1 point 3 weeks ago

here it's because of the extreme commercial nature of halloween infringing of the older tradition of caring for your loved ones' graves.

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[–] sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

I was in The Netherlands on Halloween a few years ago and nobody really knew what the hell we were talking about.