One I love is Mari Lwyd, in Wales, although from what I've read on Wikipedia it seems like it might be Christian, pre-Christian or not religious, depending on the interpretation, and started around the 1800s, if you count that
Basically, someone with a horse skull and covered in a white sheet, walks around the street singing with some company, and taps on random doors and asks for admission into the home to raid the pantry and generally cause mayhem, all while singing for permission to enter, and the person in the home would have to give excuses as to why they wouldn't let them in, also while singing, and if the homeowner can't come up with a good reason, they have to let them in.
Fun should be illegal, is what I get from a lot of those types... Also from people that call hobbies and people having fun cringe, there's definitely overlap. Some will say some nonsense about bringing back bullying that didn't even go anywhere.
They’re not calling the maker of this thread a white nationalist they’re just agreeing with the sentiment that white nationalists tend to hate on anything fun. The two are agreeing with each other.
Nittany Scout isn’t accusing Careless Yellow of white nationalism. NS is expanding on their point, saying that white nationalist ideology minimizes the awe of authentic European traditions. Essentially, NS is agreeing with CY while adding on how it connects to culture.
I love how almost every time fantasy does something wacky and/or unsettling, there is a 80% chance that it’s copy pasted from something that happened in some village in Europe (like that village of dancing ladies in elden ring)
Even American Catholics get bumped by the hoods though. I don't think it was a strong tradition in the Catholic communities that came over to the states.
Easier to convert people that way. You promise them a piece of their culture will be kept alive, instead of being swept away forever. The romans liked that trick
Well, they’re all Anglos for the most part, so yeah. The English are the least interesting people of the British Isles on top of being the least interesting Germanic people
Mannnn European traditions always seem so cool but I'm from The united Britland so we're bordered by cool shit and don't get any. Our only cultural traditions are Stella Artois, jamiroquai and Beat wife
In catalonia (part of spain (well we were independent for literal 8 secs)) we have this log called tió. its a christmas log that shits presents. on the beginnings of december, this thing arrives at your house. either that or you go search it on the forest. its kinda goofy it has legs, face and a traditional catalan hat called barretina. you then feed it food for all of december, specially tangerines and then when the 24th you get a stick (sometimes decorate it) and beat it with a stick. usually it goes like this: the adults tell the kids to sing christmas carols, and then one of them says "ive smelled something (fart)" then you beat it while you sing a song called "cagatió" which means "shit tió". its usually covered with a blanket so it doesnt get cold so you pull the blanket and theres presents underneath. theyre not big presents but still. when it poops either an onion or an egg it has no more poop supply. the next day it leaves
We dress up in big ass wool coats with wooden masks and anything that makes a lot of noise, and build great pyres. It is to scare off winter, as well as a historical celebration.
I hate how everything online has to appeal to Americans, meanwhile their little brains would never make the effort to learn any culturally pagan tradition. It's not "christian" enough for them, they think it's demonic
Every year my country gathers around explosions to burn effigies of our nations favorite terrorist. This is widely considered a children's activity, and they're encouraged to dress up the terrorist so he looks more real while we burn him. This has been going on for over 400 years.
Whimsy like this may not match their "vision" of what "white culture" is, plus the account is called "Right Side of History", which likely means it's a right-wing account, and obviously while it depends on where the person who owns the account is, right wing people are often white supremacists. I don't have Twitter so I can't confirm though
Nah, it's a small subset situation. Some supremacists will be very familiar with what's in the image, but likely still outnumbered by normal people. It's only relevant when taking the comment specifically about white supremacists into account.
Granted, this appears to be Twitter, so they may be advanced supremacists of some unknown vintage. I trust nothing they tell me.
The (culturally) catholic regions of Germany have St. Martin on 10/11th November.
According to legend, St. Martin was a roman soldiers who was riding in cold winter weather one day when he passed a beggar. Feeling empathy, he cut his warm soldiers cloak in half with hsi sword to give it to the beggar to help him with the cold. And then it turns out the Beggar was Jesus etc.
So every year on November 11th, every child in town will get a lantern, follow A guy on a horse in roman costume through town to a big pyre, were they reenact giving the beggar the cloak, and then everyone gets large, soft, sugary pretzels for free.
(And if you're in a rural area, the locals will likely try to both make the pyre as big as possible *AND* throw everything remotely combustible on it).
These are usually done by the local firefighters too.
Even the concept of white supremacy is so very american. Don't get me wrong, racism based on skin color was always a thing in Europe. But traditional european racism is based on culture. The americans probably still remember that from the times when they hated the irish.
In Swabia we have Fasnet (dunno where else it’s celebrated), which is just a form of carneval. The fools’ guilds each have their own costumes and take part in parades, where they act like witches, werewolves, demons,… They also give out candy and abduct people, throw confetti in their hair or steal their shoes/shoelaces.
Edit: I only managed to post a link to an image so you get this GIF instead
They dress up like these silly dwarves and dance. They also have a tradition where one man gets put into a metal costume of a devil and dances with pyrotechnics strapped to him so ir looks like he's surrounded by flames.
we have guy fawkes night (bonfire night) in england where people dress up in these masks and burn dolls with said masks to commemorate the failure of guy fawkes and his crew attempting to blow up parliament november 5th 1605. this happens every year.
also may pole dancing (the ine seen on midsommer yes, any time i see anyone doing maypole danmcing there is alwyas some american in the comments like Er WaSn'T tHeRe A mOvIe AboUt THis hurr hurr, no bitch its just may pole dancing chill.) here is what they do
There's a weird Austrian one where teenagers wear these weird masks that make than look like old people and go door-to-door or bar-to-bar and drink schnapps through a straw without taking their masks off in exchange for warding off evil spirits throughout the year. I was bevved out of my head on a snowboard trip one night and the perchtenläufen came in and had this whole speaking in exaggerated old lady voices shtick going on and we were just like, ".... what the fuck is going on over there?" It was pretty rad.
Well we have some traditions that church allowed or people were just too attached to let them go mostly german ones and the rest is considered leftist propaganda but i'm personally not really into rituals or any religious practices i get the difference between them being done out of faith to being done socially but i'm neither a believer nor social so i don't have a favourite or anything i find interesting for that matter but i do find it sad how the most "traditional" traditionalist only see traditions the catholic church approves of
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u/Quibilash 1h ago
One I love is Mari Lwyd, in Wales, although from what I've read on Wikipedia it seems like it might be Christian, pre-Christian or not religious, depending on the interpretation, and started around the 1800s, if you count that
Basically, someone with a horse skull and covered in a white sheet, walks around the street singing with some company, and taps on random doors and asks for admission into the home to raid the pantry and generally cause mayhem, all while singing for permission to enter, and the person in the home would have to give excuses as to why they wouldn't let them in, also while singing, and if the homeowner can't come up with a good reason, they have to let them in.
It's pure chaos and I love it