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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / May 2004Happy Walpurgis!
Big bonfire night tonight around here! Most cities/communities arrange bonfires for all and there will be choir singing and sometimes other entertainment. it's "party time " for teenagers/student, especially in university cities Uppsala and Lund they party all day with lots of happenings, parades and partying and partying all day. Lots of companies close halfday or at least a few hours early today. And even if it's celebrating spring I remember many chilly Walpurgis nights, even with snow falling ... well it is Sweden ... Today it's warm and sunny though. If someone is interested in how we do "Valborg" in Sweden here's a couple of links: way Walpurgis Night sounds more impressive don't you think? http://www.genuinescandinavia.com/celebration_walpurgis.asp http://www.llt.uea.ac.uk/scandstudies/trads/valborg.shtml http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A740396 Valborg Purrs from Thea & Bono - extra fiery for those who need them. :: lewe ------------------------------------------------------------- lewemi at yahoo dot se || cat pics: photos.yahoo.com/lewemi >Big bonfire night tonight around here! > [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] >------------------------------------------------------------- >lewemi at yahoo dot se || cat pics: photos.yahoo.com/lewemi Happy Walpurgis/Beltane from the Irish/English-descended American here. Ginger-lyn >> Big bonfire night tonight around here! >> [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > > Ginger-lyn And from the Scottish-American here. And her half Siamese cat, Persia :) Jill > >> Big bonfire night tonight around here! > >> [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > > And from the Scottish-American here. And her half Siamese cat, Persia :) And a Happy Samhain from the English-Australian :-) Yowie >>>> Big bonfire night tonight around here! >>>> [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] > > Yowie I'd try putting up a May Pole but then Persia would just chase after the ribbons and try to eat the flowers :) Jill Sounds fun to me. I'll be right over. > Big bonfire night tonight around here! > [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > ------------------------------------------------------------- > lewemi at yahoo dot se || cat pics: photos.yahoo.com/lewemi > Big bonfire night tonight around here! > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > If someone is interested in how we do "Valborg" in Sweden here's a couple of > links: "Beltane" here in Edinburgh. We have our own fire festival going on tonight on the hilltop of Calton Hill. Dancers and "fireworks" as well as the bonfire. It used to go on till dawn and had many shamanic drummers, as well as a great friendly "party" atmosphere, but recently residents in the very expensive houses a short distance below the site have complained, and as a result this year it will be a "ticket only " event, and must finish at midnight - no drums allowed. Even the police admit that there was never any trouble with the Beltane crowd. However in late breaking news, apparently alcohol will NOT be banned tonight, as some folks wanted. (we always shared a bottle around the fire, but I NEVER saw any real drunken problems in all the years I went) Here's a link the the Beltane Fire Society's page. http://bfs.techsmechs.com/home.asp  SignatureJette Goldie jette@blueyonder.co.uk Apache and Dakota http://www.jette.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/kitties.html >Big bonfire night tonight around here! > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > >Valborg Purrs from Thea & Bono - extra fiery for those who need them. Purrs from third generation Swede/Dane. Best wishes for your celebration. MLB Happy Walpurgis, lewe! Now, why did I think that Walpurgis Nacht was on June 22? Or am I way off base? Thought it had something to do with Witches' night and Night on Bald Mountain? Jazz's mama SignatureIrulan from the stars we came, to the stars we return from now until the end of time > Big bonfire night tonight around here! > [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > ------------------------------------------------------------- > lewemi at yahoo dot se || cat pics: photos.yahoo.com/lewemi >Happy Walpurgis, lewe! > >Now, why did I think that Walpurgis Nacht was on June 22? Or am I way off >base? Thought it had something to do with Witches' night and Night on Bald >Mountain? >Jazz's mama That's the summer solstice/St. John's Night, another magical night when spirits are supposed to be very busy, and nearby. "Night on Bald Mountain" (Mussorgsky) is also known as "St. John's Night on the Bare Mountain" (Ivanova noch' na Lisoy gore), so you were right. Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," and Wagner's "Die Meistersinger" are set around that day, too. Theresa alt.tv.frasier FAQ: http://www.im-listening.net/FAQ/ Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful. (Aldous Huxley) > On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 14:08:53 -0400, "lrulan" <lrulan@comcast.net> > yodeled: [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > That's the summer solstice/St. John's Night, another magical night > when spirits are supposed to be very busy, and nearby. And Midsummer night is when we have bonfires in Finland, not on Walpurgis night, though that is the big spring feast around here, too. SignatureMarina, Frank and Nikki Email marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi Pics at http://uk.f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/frankiennikki >Big bonfire night tonight around here! > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] >http://www.llt.uea.ac.uk/scandstudies/trads/valborg.shtml >http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A740396 Good listening: Mendelssohnn's "Die erste Walpurgisnacht" Theresa alt.tv.frasier FAQ: http://www.im-listening.net/FAQ/ Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful. (Aldous Huxley) "lewe" <lewemiSPAMTRAP@yahoo.se> dumped this in news:c6u002$g4on3$1@ID- 161996.news.uni-berlin.de on 30 Apr 2004: > Big bonfire night tonight around here! > > Most cities/communities arrange bonfires for all and there will be choir > singing and sometimes other entertainment. Happy Walpurgis! I enjoyed reading the links you posted. The third was funny! This is one of the things I love about the net. Learning about culture that I would never learn anywhere else except maybe a newspaper, or TV news story but here you get to really feel it. :) SignatureCheryl Cheryl <jlhshadow@NOSPAMhotmail.com> skrev i diskussionsgruppsmeddelandet:Xns94DBDA25F2999shads@216.196.97.136... | I enjoyed reading the links you posted. The third was funny! This is one of | the things I love about the net. Learning about culture that I would never | learn anywhere else except maybe a newspaper, or TV news story but here you | get to really feel it. :) I agree, you learn about places and things and feel connected to news and happenings around the world in a way you just wouldn't otherwise. I'll read or hear about something and think that "there's where so and so live", "that's what was mentioned on rpca" and so on. -- lewe ------------------------------------------------------------------------- lewemi at yahoo dot se | cat pics: photos.yahoo.com/lewemi > Big bonfire night tonight around here! > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > even with snow falling ... well it is Sweden ... Today it's warm and sunny > though. Is May 1st "Labor Day" in Sweden, as it seems to be in much of Europe? Or is that only the former communist countries? We were in Budapest for May Day, one year, and it was certainly a public holiday there, but of course Hungary was under communist rule for quite awhile. "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" <evgmsop@earthlink.net> wrote in > Is May 1st "Labor Day" in Sweden, as it seems to be in much of Europe? > Or is that only the former communist countries? We were in Budapest for > May Day, one year, and it was certainly a public holiday there, but of > course Hungary was under communist rule for quite awhile. It is Labour Day in both west and east Europe, but at least here in Finland, it is also the day for academics to celebrate... umm, the end of the academic year, perhaps? It's all mixed in with the old pagan Walpurgis feast, very carnevalistic. SignatureMarina, Frank and Nikki Email marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi Pics at http://uk.f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/frankiennikki > > Big bonfire night tonight around here! > > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > May Day, one year, and it was certainly a public holiday there, but of > course Hungary was under communist rule for quite awhile. It is "Labour Day" here in Thailand too. Major crazy traffic jams with partiers everywhere. It is also the last weekend before school starts back up after the summer holiday for Thai kids. -- Britta Sandpaper kisses, a cuddle and a purr. I have an alarm clock that's covered in fur! Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) <evgmsop@earthlink.net> skrev i diskussionsgruppsmeddelandet:40931F15.DF252E73@earthlink.net... |Is May 1st "Labor Day" in Sweden, as it seems to be in much of Europe? | Or is that only the former communist countries? We were in Budapest for | May Day, one year, and it was certainly a public holiday there, but of | course Hungary was under communist rule for quite awhile. Yep, holiday it is - but not all go out marching here, it's good to have a day off to work in the garden, preparing boats for the season or just being lazy ... Traditionally the social democrats - in government, did you notice in the US that our primen minister G?ran Persson met with Bush last week btw? or didn't that make the news over there at all? - and other labour/leftish parties all march and hold meetings and things. Some conservative/right wing groups also do it now and this year Sweden's biggest conservative party held a May 1 meeting for the first time to mark the occasion of the expansion of the European Union with the 10 new member states and another 75 million people - making a total of 25 countries and 453 million or so in the EU now. -- lewe ------------------------------------------------------------------------- lewemi at yahoo dot se | cat pics: photos.yahoo.com/lewemi |
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