According to the Swedish tradition the witches flew to "Blåkulla" on Maundy Thursday to meet up with the devil. Going there they used a broom, a stick or something else to fly on. Another common tradition, I don't know if you saw it around Ystad, is to light big fires, "påskeldar", to chase away the withces.
This doesn't explain why children dress up like witches. Maybe it's just an older version of halloween.. ;)
"Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up, as did men of another age, to the challenge of nature. Modern man lives in a highly synthetic kind of existence. He specializes in this and that. Rarely does he test all his powers or find himself whole. But in the hills and on the water the character of a man comes out." --Abram T. Collier
5 comments:
why do they dress like witches on easter?
ok i read your blog i guess it makes a little more sense....
They are Swedes and we Swedes are weird. That's enough of an explanation.. ;)
Is there a Swede out there who can better expalin why they dress like witches?
According to the Swedish tradition the witches flew to "Blåkulla" on Maundy Thursday to meet up with the devil. Going there they used a broom, a stick or something else to fly on. Another common tradition, I don't know if you saw it around Ystad, is to light big fires, "påskeldar", to chase away the withces.
This doesn't explain why children dress up like witches. Maybe it's just an older version of halloween.. ;)
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