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Winter Festivals 2006 Dates and Descriptions

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  • Jei70
    Jei70 Posts: 281 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    How about adding New Year's Eve and NY Day to the list - OK, we all know when they are, but there are some nice traditions (OS party tips, anyone?)

    Eastern Orthodox (e.g. Russian) Christmas Eve - 6th Jan, Christmas Day 7th Jan 2007 [this belongs to 2006 festivities, due to the Julian/Gregorian calendar difference]
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  • magpie-c13
    magpie-c13 Posts: 20 Forumite
    Some (H.P. Love)crafty folks have come up with a new winter celebration for those who don't fall into any of the major religious groups but aren't comfortable with the consumer frenzy of the secular version of Christmas (Ideal for Moneysavers!). It's called Cephalopodmas, and falls on 22nd December. More details at the following hilarious website: http://www.cephalopodmas.org

    Edit: Just incase anyone misses the link from the Cephalopodmas website, there's an even funnier festive H.P. Lovecraft themed site here, with carols you can listen to: http://www.cthulhulives.org/Solstice/
  • Lill111
    Lill111 Posts: 53 Forumite
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    Hi all,
    in germany we celebrate on the 24th of december ( Heilig Abend/holy Night)
    And then we have the 1st and 2nd Christmasday(erster and zweiter weinachtstag/christmas day+Boxing day). Our Santa is called the Weinachtsman.
    As we live in england and hubby is scottish our kids celebrate both days lol, presents under the tree after dinner on the 24th usually from granni and auntys, and on the 25 in the morning they get hubbys and my pressys lol, so they really get the whole exitment twice over, mind you Emma is 9 now and like a stroppy teenager so prob wont have the weinachtsmann for her next year only pressis from mum and dad !
  • Horasio
    Horasio Posts: 6,676 Forumite
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    It is Thanksgiving in the States today

    http://wilstar.com/holidays/thankstr.htm
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  • F1F1
    F1F1 Posts: 218 Forumite
    Up-Helly-Aa - wiinter Viking fire festival in Shetland.

    Held in Lerwick on the last Tuesday of January plus smaller country Up-Helly-Aas in country areas throughout the winter.

    http://www.visitshetland.com/events/up-helly-aa-event/

    http://heritage.scotsman.com/diagrams.cfm?cid=2&id=40592005

    http://www.northmavine.com/events.htm

    (I have a connection with the last site, in that I made and maintain the website, but as it is a community website there is no personal gain involved.)
  • irishwench69
    irishwench69 Posts: 807 Forumite
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    As this is now been updated to include year-round festivities, should we add some more dates?!

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  • Hapless_2
    Hapless_2 Posts: 2,619 Forumite
    how about hogmanay and 12th night?
    Imbolc for feb 1st (does that still count as winter?)
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  • Sifreynir
    Sifreynir Posts: 8 Forumite
    how about some heathen dates? General information on the Anglo-Saxon Calendar

    Winternights - festival around the same time as halloween/allsaints/Samhain
    Jul/Yule or Mother Night - is our family festival.

    I guess the problem with the heathen dates is they have a tendancy to move, being that the solstice isn't always on the same date and Winternights is generally celebrated after the first frost!

    :beer:

    Waes Hael
  • Overthetop
    Overthetop Posts: 207 Forumite
    6Th Jan is Three Kings day in Spain, which by the way is a great time to holiday in Spain and be a part of the celebrations
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