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Member | waterfairy10587 posts 87 5:02 pm December 15, 2011
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Do they???? Like Christmas or Hanukkah? I know they celebrate fae day, but anything else? Just curious
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Member | DakotaRisingMoon Windsor, ON, Canada posts 831 11:25 am December 17, 2011
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I think I recall Mr.E mentioning that they do celebrate Christmas, and don't really give up the chance to party..
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Member | Faecat Texas posts 673 1:00 pm December 19, 2011
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I'm pretty sure the fae would celebrate a holiday called Samhain. It's celelbrated on Halloween and it's allabout celelbrating those who have passed on and thanking Mother Earth for giving us food. Also celebrates the thining of the veil on all worlds.
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Member | green_auxiliatrix South of the North Pole, above the Earth's core. posts 16 5:46 am March 30, 2012
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From what I understand, some types of fae recognize some holidays, and many types of fae recognize a few holidays, but they wouldn't necessarily "celebrate" the holiday in a way that humans would understand. There are traditions, though, that are carried out on certain days and seasons, if those who presented the information I've gathered understood properly. As for some human holidays, I think some fae do as humans do, or involve themselves in the celebrations, not as a celebration of the holiday itself but just for fun. Other human holidays are said to constrain or otherwise negatively affect fae, but since the vast majority of said holidays are Christian holidays, I would tend to assume that most of it (if not all of it) is Christian propaganda designed to facilitate the conversion of those native to pagan faiths.
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Member | Athidal posts 644 11:18 am March 30, 2012
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I don't have any details about this since I'm not truly a part of it, but I've noticed that the trooping fae around here seem to celebrate the Moving Days, which is when the lot of them pack up and go somewhere else. The autumn Moving Day corresponds to the time around Samhain/Halloween, and the spring Moving Day happens somewhere around Beltaine/May Day. It seems to be a sort of seasonal migration thing, but don't ask me where they go when they leave, for I haven't a clue! :) I'm guessing they're going south for the winter, or something. Anyway, you can tell when they aren't around any longer because a feeling of energy just sort of goes out of the area, and it doesn't come back until spring. But there's a sort of 'we're all packed now, but it isn't time to leave yet so let's have a party' thing that goes on, and they do appreciate it if you can contribute a bottle of good Irish lager to the proceedings. ;)
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| Lisa A.- Grey Eyes Pennsylvania posts 2499 12:21 am April 1, 2012
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Hi Athidal!
Yes, I noticed the same in my area as well– that same energy and presence seems to leave here in the Fall, but then you really can notice it return when you are outside in the Spring.
From what I heard , the Trooping Fae will go back to their realm in between times for rest- and then onto an area of the Earth where they can be of assistance.
They are wonderful Beings!
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| slave_to_valor St. Louis, MO posts 112 12:26 pm April 2, 2012
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Faecat said:
I'm pretty sure the fae would celebrate a holiday called Samhain. It's celelbrated on Halloween and it's allabout celelbrating those who have passed on and thanking Mother Earth for giving us food. Also celebrates the thining of the veil on all worlds.
Actually… Samhain is NOT on Halloween. Samhain (pronounced Saw-wen) is the Autumn Equinox and takes place on October 22nd. It's the first of the two most important holidays in the Pagan Traditions (though there are two others, being Winter and Summer Solstice, the shortest and longest days of the year), the second of these being Beltaine, which is celebrated on March 22nd. Samhain and Beltaine mark the beginning of "Autumn" and "Spring", which is when the Queen of the Summer Court hands over her crown to the King of the Winter Court, and vice versa when Beltaine comes back around. For humans, the majority of Samhain is a harvest festival, in which both humans and their livestock would walk through or between two burning bonfires to cleanse themselves of evil or bad spirits.
The reason that Halloween is on October 31st and thus most people associate Samhain being on October 31st is because the Catholic All Saint's Day takes place on November 1st. Samhain is also associated with Carnivale, which is a festival where men and women dress up in costume, wear masks and attend an all-night party filled with sex, drinking and various other things that were "not approved" by the Catholic Church. Carnivale was the last night when men and women could do these things, before having to go back to their normal lives and repent on All Saint's Day.
Because the Catholic Church originated in Rome, thus known as the Holy Roman Empire, and because most monks and missionaries were Italian at the time (provided my history is correct), where the missionaries went to spread Christianity, so did their own cultural customs. Thus, in order to convert the pagans, many of the pagan holidays were combined with Christian ones. Samhain became Carnivale and was moved to October 31st.
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