Bryn Pugh -- no, we don't. Not that differently, anyway!

If you read this longer article, it seems to imply that the choice of a graveyard was not so much due to its graveyardness, as to its peace & quiet. I'm thinking that possibly it's hard to find a place to work under the full moon in Lebanon, Indiana?

There's a video interview with the sword-sticker/stickee on that site, too.

About things being different in America: There is an African/African American/Caribbean (hoodoo) tradition of graveyard dirt being a source of power, even luck, but I've been reading up on that, and I don't see anything in there about performing thank-you rituals in graveyards...I suppose some U.S. wiccan traditions might incorporate snippets of hoodoo into their practice (though I don't know of any) and come up with something like this, but if this was hoodoo-inspired, it seems pretty far removed from the genuine article.

Claire