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Snowdrops

Snowdrops

Feb 18, 2023

Spring is around the corner when the snowdrops blossom

Halloween

Halloween

Oct 31, 2022

The Celtic festival of Samhain is a highlight of the pagan year

Totensonntag

Nov 17, 2019

November 17 in Germany is a national day of mourning for everyone who has died in war or as a result of tyranny. The “national day of the dead” is respected across Germany as a stiller tag — a day of quiet where it’s not okay to play loud music...

Diwali

Oct 27, 2019

Diwali, also known as Deepavali, is the Hindu festival of lights. The festival celebrates the victory of light over darkness and symbolically, of good over evil. Diwali is an autumn festival in the northern hemisphere, and isassociated with firework displays as well...

Festival of Saint Nicholas

Dec 6, 2018

The Christian festival of Saint Nicholas is observed on December 6 throughout western Europe and in some eastern European countries including Romania and Hungary. Saint Nicholas is the prototype for Santa Claus, and he has for centuries been associated with being a...

Krampusnacht

Dec 6, 2018

As a child, I remember the Krampus in Bischofstetten, my home village in Austria. He was a scary figure. On Krampusnacht, on 5th December, the Eve of the Feast of St Nicholas, we would get to meet him. Oma and Opa, my grandparents, had a hayloft with recesses stained...
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