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User Name	Thread Name	Subject	Posted
GUEST,Liam's Brother	BS: Why not English tradition? (72* d)	RE: BS: Why not English tradition?	04 Nov 00
You lament the media's joking about Morris dancers and I agree with you. It is a real shame. But you then refer to another country's music as "Irish diddly diddlies." I presume your heart's in the right place, Mrs Duck, but that's quite insensitive and offensive. Don't you see that? By the way, the observance of Halloween is an English custom. New England (the genesis of Halloween observance in the USA) was colonised by the English some 350 years ago. The mumming tradition in the USA comes from England. Halloween was an old Druid custom that got folded into Christianity when the Romans colonised England. In actuality, the Americans are giving you back your own very English custom. I agree with mouldy above. I remember from 1960 that it was called Guy Fawkes Day but Bonfire Night. All the best, Dan

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