Archive for May, 2007
The United States reigns with costume parties around Halloween. Children, adults and teens that are over the age of going door to door dress up instead and attend parties. Movies are rife with instances of costume parties in the United States.
Mardi Gras time, in Louisiana and other parts of the United States also draws many costume parties. Books and movie releases abound that carry a Halloween costume party theme, and science fiction and fantasy events all favor Halloween themes. Even Oscar parties that were focused on Lord of the Rings were in essence costume parties, and Episode I of the Star Wars trilogy were celebrated by a costume party. Harry Potter theme parties are also costume parties.
In the United Kingdom, ‘Boxing Day’, with a man dressed as ‘Wolverine’, the ‘X-Men’ anti-hero heralded the 2006 festivities, as ‘Boxing Day in Wigan’ is still popular with its fancy dress amongst revelers.
The Royal Family favors fancy dress parties, and these are popular all year round in England. Prince William of the British Royal Family celebrated his twenty-first birthday by having an ‘Out of Africa’ theme closely related to the movie of same name. On the other hand, Princess Beatrice for her eighteenth birthday chose an 1888 theme party, while in January of 2005, Prince Harry made headlines by wearing an Afrika Corps uniform with a Nazi armband to a costume party. Ms. Bridget Jones, on the other hand, favored a classical ‘tarts and vicars’ style theme for her latest party.
The largest outcry came against Prince Harry however, and he was splashed across tabloids in his costume, especially in the Sunday tabloid, ‘News of the World.’
Please line up paper, sellotape, safety pins and pencils
For each player there will be one piece of paper on which you write the name of flowers with 8 letters.
You then stick a paper on the back of each guest and you tell them the number of letters in their flower.
What they have to do is work out is the name of their flower by asking questions like
“Is there a letter C in my flower ?”
They write down the answer and then move on . They can’t ask the same person another question.
When they have found all the letters, they then take time out to work out what their flower is.
And the first person to do this is the winner.
You can stop cheating on this by making sure there are no mirrors in the room, or if there are, then covering them up.
Flowers game for Parties
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The roots of the holiday are as such: Shortened in name from All-Hallow-Even, taking place on the evening of or before ‘All Hallows’ Day’, or ‘All Saints Day’, this prior Pagan holiday was a day of festivities in Northern Europe. Popes Gregory III and Gregory IV were responsible for allocating the Christian Feast of ‘All Saints Day’ from the dates of May 13 to November 1. The move was initiated in order to supplant the original Pagan feast with a Christian Feast Day. Because of the measuring of sunset to sunset, according to the Florentine Calendar, the days of ‘All Hallows’ and ‘All Saints’ were now the same day.
The Irish tradition of ‘All Hallows’ Eve’ is still respected and followed, and the terminology remains the same. Festivals that occur are referred to as ‘Samhain’ or ‘Oiche Shamhna’, to the Irish, ‘Samhuin’ to the Scottish/Gaelic, ‘Calan Gaeaf’ to the Welsh, ‘Allantide’ to the Cornish and ‘Hop-tu-Naa’ to the Manx. Some parts of Ireland also refer to Halloween as ‘pooky night’, using the mischievous spirit, ‘puca’ as a basis for the folklore.
Magic is considered most potent during Halloween, and it’s considered a liminal time of the year. Irish tales of the ‘Sidhe’ abound as well as tall tales throughout other cultures, and ‘witch lore’, tails of witches and hobgoblins abound throughout the world.
