Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Doesn't Finland have a harvest celebration, tho? Like Thanksgiving and 
> Mid-Autumn Festival and stuff like that? That's really all Halloween is, 
> except some Christians went and dressed it up in evil icons because it was 
> the pagan version of the holiday.

  Btw, now that you mention it and I looked it up, All Saints Day actually
*is* an official holiday in Finland. De jure, at least. It's in the saturday
between october 31 and november 6.

  However, it's a purely Christian holiday with its origin in Catholicism,
rather than being a traditional harvest festival.

  In practice nobody celebrates this. Not that I know of. (Perhaps some
churches might.) IIRC you don't even get a day off work (iow. it's not
*that* official).

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                                                          - Warp

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