The frozen screen from Feli reminded me of a joke I heard: German: - Herr Doktor, ich höre Stimmen, sehe aber niemand. - Wann ist das? - Immer wenn ich telefoniere. English: - Doctor, I hear voices, but I don't see anybody. - When is that? - Every times, I use the telephone.
Just listened and really enjoyed hearing your ghost stories! I wanted to add @27:00 that there's always a seasonal aisle at stores where Sept-Oct is Halloween, Nov-Dec is Christmas, Jan-Feb is Valentines Day, Mar-Apr is Easter, May-July is Graduation/summer/BBQ/4th of July and Aug is back-to-school. I know this since I always try to buy discounted candy the day after the holiday. lol! For Halloween candy, I've always enjoyed skittles since they try to trick you by having at least 1-2 candies be sour instead of their expected flavor (i.e. a red one would taste sour instead of strawberry.) I hope Josh gets better soon. BTW, congrats on ONE YEAR!!!! Hope you both keep creating content and share with us your thoughts/stories.
In my region in Germany there are fall celebrations in the form of Thanks Harvest celebrations (Erntedank) around the first weekend of October. I guess this is more a rural thing in farming villages. There is a church service, the church is decorated, there is a tractor parade, and hay rides, a "harvest crown" is made and hung up, a harvest queen is chosen, house fronts are decorated with fruits and flowers, beer tent and party and more. I remember my grandma telling scare stories of the "Korn-Mume", who is an old woman or witch living in the corn field. She will catch children and cut their throats with her scythe, when kids just run off into the corn fields. I guess, that was a story to prevent kids from getting lost in same big corn field and tell them that a field is not a playground. So in a way a different approach to the American corn maze.
38:48 yeah it's pretty widely clebrated here, shops will decorate, houses will be done. Lots of Halloween parties for kids as well as trick or treat, pumpkin carving competitions etc. I just moved 3 hours away for uni and there were a lot of houseparties here the whole week where people dressed up.
I KNEW Feli was gonna tell the story with the dog :D I actually know a slightly different version from when I was a kid though: in that version it's a young boy who's home alone and follows the dripping noise down to the basement after checking all the water taps in the house and that's where he finds his dog hanging from the ceiling and the message about murderers being able to lick hands too is written on the basement wall in the dog's blood - dunno if that version is known in other parts of Germany as well or if it's more of a regional thing 😅 Another story we told a lot when we were kids was about a creepy talking doll that keeps chanting "six six six" and has been brought back to the store by all the previous owners like a day after they bought it and basically what happens is that over night the child, who gets the doll as a gift in the story, mysteriously dies and then the next morning the doll is suddenly chanting "seven seven seven". When we told the story back in the day we would also always hold up six/seven fingers while chanting the numbers 😂
A few days after halloween we have Martinssingen, which is an old tradition an where children are getting candies for singing a little Song "Als Martin Luther ein Knabe war, da ist er gezogen so manches Jahr ...."
In the Rheinland we have Gribschen which is very similar to trick or treating but for St Martin's Day on 11th of November so people will think you are greedy coming the week before.
Our neighborhood held a Halloween block party (but on Saturday 10/30). Kids and adults invited. Some of our neighbors are decent musicians and play in local bands, so we had live music as well. The parents of smaller kids ran a kids only party on Hallowenn proper and then took them trick-or-treating. We were asked to setup a table at the end of our driveways with candy to minimize kids exposure to potential Covid. Our table had a lit jack-o-lantern as well. So we were "spared" the constant door bell ringing,
Growing up trick-or-treating in a Bavarian small town neighbourhood in the 2000s, we always followed the rule of thumb "If there's no decoration, don't bother". Houses that were participating and had candy for kids would put up Halloween decorations (some actually going all-out with their decorations as well, others just simply putting candles or carved pumpkins outside). If someone didn't want to participate, they'd just not decorate and the kids would know that they won't get anything there. At least here in my neighborhood Halloween is actually pretty widespread with a lot of kids going around trick-or-treating and many houses actually having candy for them, maybe that's because we don't have any other tradition here in southern Bavaria that involves kids going from door to door and receiving candy or similar things, so Halloween sort of filled that gap.
Kids do this in the US. We know when lights are out and there is no decorations don't bother. Not everyone in the US enjoys Halloween. Big example is Jehovah's Witnesses. They dont celebrate any holiday that isnt about Jesus. I had a friend who was a Jehovah Witness and he would sneak out of his house with a white sheet with eyes cut out and came trick or treating with us. He hid his candy at home.
Since today virtually everyone walks around with a camera in their pocket and surveillance cameras are everywhere, there would have to be an endless flood of high-resolution ghost photos if ghosts existed. It always amazes me how many modern, enlightened people still believe in such magical phenomena.😯
Who is to say that ghosts necessarily have to look like media portrays them...there's a lot of stuff in this world we don't understand yet, I wouldn't be surprised if ghosts actually existed in one form or another. Just like with god, I do believe that there is something out there, but I don't think it has anything to do with the picture Christianity or any other religion paints of it.
@@leDespicable Why the media? Rather, people who claim to have seen ghosts. For example, ghosts are described in the video as little boys or women in old clothes. If these were real phenomena, not only all people present would have to be able to see them, but also cameras that react to photons just like our eyes. If only one person sees the "ghost" the logical conclusion is that the brain of this person is doing something funny. Put yourself in a dark salt water tank where more or less all senses are turned off and you will start to see and hear all kinds of things after a short while. Not because they are there, but because your brain makes them up. And then there are people who suffer from psychoses or, perhaps, came into contact with psychoactive substances etc.. And for a God you have even less evidence, but you believe in it because you like the idea.🤷♂️
There are some events like "Kürbisausstellungen" ("pumpkin exhibitions") nowadays in Germany, where you can buy anything pumpkin 😅 The, I think, oldest one takes place in Ludwigsburg every year (my home town) in the gardens of the baroque palace close to the city centre. It's beautiful with huge sculptures made from pumpkins, food stands selling dishes with pumpkin (e. g. Spaghetti with pumpkin pesto) and you can buy pumpkins and seeds, decorations, etc... I can highly recommend a trip there in the fall 🍁
New Orleans checking in: Mardi Gras here almost shuts down the city for the parades. It's not an event to be taken lightly in regards to its planning. It is progression of separate celebrations that span multiple weeks, all culminating on "Fat Tuesday". So many people participate in it and so many people come to the city from out of town to experience it. Regarding Halloween, there are so many haunted houses that get setup here. (There are also cemetery tours, but I think those tend to be historic, not spooky, but that's only from my perspective.) As for costumes, I've always seen a mix of scary & non-scary costumes here. Kids' costumes definitely trend toward non-scary.
Hi Feli, Ende Oktober 2019 bin ich mit meiner Tochter von Tifton kommend über Waycross und Folkstone auf Landstrassen nach St.Augustin FL gefahren. Auf der gesamten Strecke war, obwohl ja Halloween war so gut wie kein Haus geschmückt. Einige Farmen hatten ein paar Kürbisse vor der Einfahrt liegen. Aber in den Ortschaften nix. In St. Augustin wurden, wie immer ab 18:00 die Kantsteine hochgeklappt. In den Bars war normales Leben. Meine Tochter und ich war total enttäusch, wir hatten auch in St.Augustin eigentlich mehr erwartet. Um so schöner zu sehen was bei Euch so los ist. 👍👍
When the children come to my parents house and ask for "Süßes oder Saures", my mother just asks back "Do you want sweet or sour?" because many don't really know why they use that slogan. So she has not only sweets prepared, but also some lemons (=sour). The kids are often a little surprised but take them for the thrill of eating them later, and now some just instantly ask for the lemon 😁
I live in downtown Cologne for almost 20 years now. In all those years, only one (!) kid rang to trick-or-treat on Halloween. So I never felt like at least trick-or-treating is a big thing in Germany even today...
Feli: Despite your great, scary Halloween stories, the scariest one was hearing that when you would try to trick or treat as a child and would get a “Nein!” and a slammed door. Horrible! I also recommend candy corn. It should have its own food group. I have had the YumEarth brand, if you want the vegan version, and it’s pretty good for someone who isn’t vegan. Josh: Congratulations on the new lights! I wasn’t anyone who particularly cared about that. But since your changing them, how about making them festive for the holidays? 😄 Good call on the candy corn. I hope you recover quickly again from your cold! Both: Just a heads up, if I ever happen to run into either of you in public, it would be a “Hello, nice to meet you, my names Jason, can I buy you a beer for real instead of on Patreon?”😀 If that can’t break the ice, nothing will…🤣
The connection between language and cultural concepts: Did you know, that German used to have different words for aunt and uncle depending on the parent they were related to? "Tante" and "Onkel" were sister/sister-in-law and brother/brother-in-law of the father. The equivalent for the mother's side used to be "Muhme" and "Oheim" (conf. Die Muhme Rumpumpel in "Die kleine Hexe" or descriptions in "Lied des Nibelung").
In the country Ireland where Halloween originated they really take Halloween as a genuine holiday and celebrate way bigger than any other countries. I believe a couple of days festival if not mistaken. 😯
I was a child in the 1960s (California) and Halloween wasn't huge and commercialised as it is now. It was awesome because all the kids got to run around at night unsupervised. 55:20 Old people would turn off all their lights and pretend not to be home, they were the targets of the pranks, like TP-ing their cars or bushes, smearing shaving cream on their windows, or throwing eggs at their houses. My father said that growing up in the 1930s it was worse, like stealing a farmer's waggon etc. As far as 54:43 yes nowadays here religious people sometimes put signs on their doors saying that they don't participate in Halloween.
In Austria we have a lot going on in fall, interesting that Bavaria doesn't have those traditions - as the most "Austrian" of the German states :D For example when mid September hits everyone gets crazy about going to the Buschenschank (kind of like a mountain hut but in the vineyards), eating Brettljause (lots of cold cuts, even cooked meat, with different spreads and bread of course) and drinking Sturm (I think in Germany it's called Federweißer). Also if you live in a village there's Erntedankfest, a celebration of the harvest of the season, of course accompanied by lots of pumpkin and corn among others. And children, especially in Kindergarten have Laternenfest around the 11th of November, the day of Saint Martin. And going with the date we also eat Martinigansl (a roasted goose with red cabbage and bread dumplings) around that day. Every restaurant has it as a special. But it could also be my specific region of Austria, in the southeast.
From my experience, when I was real little (1960's) kids dressed up in any costume they could get their hands on. Scary costumes were cool, but not mandatory, I was a devil when I was 5. My friend was a cowboy.
Josh, try one of those bulbs in a known good light fixture, like your desk lamp and see if it behaves differently? Does your ceiling light has a dimmer or is it a normal on/off thing? I've seen LEDs glow when light switch has a little neon bulb itself to help locate switch in the dark, those don't play well with LEDs.
RE: Costumes. The "Trick or Treat" practice for children often involves the guessing what character the child is supposed to be. Also, it is fun to guess who the child is (neighbor, friend or relative).
Ich hätte da euch beiden eine Gruselgeschichte, die ich tatsächlich mal dem kleinen Bruder einer Bekannten erzählt habe. Ich war als Fernfahrer 27 Jahre mit dem LKW in ganz Europa unterwegs. Gewisse Bekannte, bzw deren Kinder durften in den Ferien auch mal mit mir mitfahren. Diese Geschichte erzählte ich dem Jungen, der anschließend sehr lange und sehr ruhig auf dem Beifahrersitz saß, und etwas blass daherschaute. In einer kühlen regnerischen Helloween Nacht fuhr ich mit einem branntneuen MAN Richtung Heimat. Als mich ein silberner Audi überholte, sehr knapp vor mir einscherte, und die Bremslichter aufleuchten lies. Das Abstands- Bremssystem reagierte und leitete eine Bremsung ein. Die allerdings nicht unbedingt sanft ist. Ich wünschte dem Zeitgenossen nichts besonders Gutes und ärgerte mich über den verschütteten Kaffe auf meiner Hose. Noch 300 Kilometer, es beginnt wieder zu regnen. Der silberne Audi ist längst weg, und ich habe das seltsame Fahrmanöver längst abgehakt und fuhr an eier Raststätte vorbei. Da sah ich wie der Audi hinter mir aus der Raststätte in die Autobahn einfuhr, und mich langsam wieder überholte. Ich konnte den Fahrer am Steuer grinsen sehen. Ich bekam eine leichte Wut. Die nasse Hoss erinnerte mich wieder an den Blödsinn den der Audifahrer mit mir gemacht hat. Der Audi fuhr vorbei, und verschwand vor mit in der dunklen regnerischen Nacht. Jetzt kam noch ein unheimlich wirkender Nebel dazu. Mir wurde etwas kalt, so daß ich die Heizung etwas wärmer sellte. Ich dachte noch an den Audifahrer. "Solche Typen sollte der Blitz beim sch.... treffen", dachte ich noch so vor mich hin. Hinter mir tauchte ein reichlich beleuteter anderer LKW auf, und kam langsam immer näher. Ich fuhr die Geschwindigkeit bis zum Begenzer aus, 88 Km/h. Der andere LKW war hinter mir. Mein MAN brummte zufrieden vor sich hin und die Reifen sangen dazu das Lied der Autobahn, das Wasser auf der Straße spritzte von den Reifen zischend als Gischt in die Luft. Der andere LKW war ein Scania. Schön beleuchtet und mittlerweile fuhr er an mir vorbei. Der V8 des Scanias machte sich lautstark bemerkbar, ich hatte die Scheibe ein klein bisschen offen, so konnte man jeden einzelnen Zylinder des V8 hören. Mein MAN brummte zufrieden mit dem Scania und er zog langsam auf gleiche Höhe zu mir auf. Der schön beleutete Scania hatte ganz dunkle Seitenfenster. Da gieng das rote Innenlicht in dem Scania an, und ich erkannte eine seltsame Gestalt am Steuer. Er sah zu mir rüber und grinste. Das Radio meldete am Autobahnkreuz Weinsberg einen Unfall, man soll die Unfallstelle langsam passieren weil Teile auf der Autobahnen sind. Die Gestalt fing an zu lachen und der Scaniamotor wurde lauter, er zog mit einer unglaublichen Geschwindigkeit weg. Ich dachte noch an den silbernen Audi....
hey josh, hey feli, nice to listen to you ;)) feli said spooky was our go-to solution to capture the conotation of halloween. I dont really KNOW why this is but my first thought is regarding the similar core of pronounciation with the german 'Spukschluss' which, especially feli as a girl born in germany in the 90's probably knows, is , for many ppl, the kinda german go-to solution for halloween or scary things , how do you think this developed?
Thinking about it, I treat Halloween like the word neither. Sometimes I say Hallow-ween, other times Hollow-ween. Josh has the day wrong. Nov 1 is All Soul's Day, Nov 2 is All Saints Day. Halloween is a contraction of All Hallows Eve.
Having my girls grow up in Utah, Halloween (hallo - ween) 9 of 10 times was in a snow storm. So now here in Ohio, with the Granddaughter, it was pouring rain, but at least it was a bit warmer :)
I recently learned there are two different kinds of LED lightbulbs, and the most common type doesn't work in my office life. I have to use Sylvania bulbs, with work fine. I can't remember how the LED bulbs are different. It might be different in Germany.
My Grandmother would ask me if I was going out Kinkling on Halloween, instead of calling it "Trick or Treating". This was in Cincinnati, but her parents were from Germany.
I (unfortunately) never did the trick or treating or dressing up on Halloween in Vienna as a kid - only watch the scary movies or tv episodes. I think I even heard first of Halloween back in the 90 (through American TV shows or movies). But it was not well known and not practiced. But I rather know the version "Süßes sonst gibt's Saures". Funny side note: In Vienna, we call it sometimes "Hallo Wien" (as a pun because that sounds nearly identical to Halloween) And I thought as well that in America they will also dress as something non-scary because we in Germany and Austria have that opportunity during Fasching.
Aber im Herbst ist doch Oktoberfest und alle möglichen Weinfeste und Stoppelfest und alles! 🎼Matten- Mattnthien🎵is a german opportunity to collect candy at people‘s houses. But you have to sing nicely for it!
The custom that children go from house to house and get candy exists - in a different form - in Germany, too. On November 11th (the day of Saint Martin) the children walk through their neighborhood with self-made lanterns and ring the doorbells. But they have to sing a Martin's song to get the candy.. :)
@@formgeben In the Rhineland, where I come from, this was very common, at least in earlier times. A line in one of the songs was: "A rich man lives here who can give us something. If he gives us a lot, he should live long, he shall die blessed and acquire the kingdom of heaven. So don't let us stand so long, because we have to go on, go on." A little candy for the redemption of your soul - a very pragmatic catholic approach. :))
Halloween hasn't always been scary. In the US, it evolved over the years, from being a fun, kid's candy collecting holiday with 'cute' kid-friendly imagery of black cats, ghosts, witches and vampires to being geared toward adults partying, wearing costumes that are sexy, current pop culture or horror based. In the 70s, Halloween was for children. Today, not as many kids trick-or-treat because it's generally seen as being unsafe (even pre-covid) or inappropriate for children. I figure the rise in popularity of the 80s bloody horror movie genre had something to do with that. Horror movie characters used to be like old school Frankenstein, Dracula or Wicked Witch of the West. Now, they're centered on violence as we've grown to accept more violence in our everyday lives as Americans.
If you want another topic to maybe explore, try some scary stories involving creatures in Ohio or Bavaria. In Ohio, there seems to be hotspots in the state for Bigfoot, Dogman, and the Ohio Grassman. There is even a big yearly conference in Salt Fork State Park in Eastern Ohio about Bigfoot/Sasquatch. If you ever encounter one of these creatures, you will get the crap scared out of you.
I'm Feli's age and from Germany as well, and I was never allowed to go trick or treating. When I was a kid, it just wasn't a thing at all in my neighborhood (extremely conservative, posh). But we moved to a very international and kid-friendly neighborhood when I was a pre-teen, and most kids there did it. I wasn't allowed to join in because my parents thought (still think) Halloween is stupid American consumerist bullshit. It was never about the candy, but I guess they hate fantasy and they dislike unfamiliar traditions, especially if they're American for whatever reason. And that combination just doesn't work in Halloween's favor. :/ I would love to dress up and go to a spooky Halloween party, but my friend doesn't do Halloween either, and I wouldn't want to go alone. Uni was always too far for me to attend nighttime parties. So I just sit here every year, all jealous of Americans lol. If I grew up American, I swear Halloween would be *my* kind of thing. I LOVE horror and fantasy stuff! Edit: And yes, my parents always switch off the lights and even the doorbell on Halloween.
Halloween halloween, tomato tomato - it's all in the pronunciation.... Sad to say, I couldn't follow Feli's storytelling in German (a case of "ich verstehe nur Bahnhof" indeed...), though "tropf...tropf...tropf..." was very evocative, so thanks for the English retelling. It's great to see how German Josh is and how American Feli is - good advertisements for cultural immersion. One day (...) I intend to depart my own home nation (UK) to settle somewhere sunnier and that will entail learning another language (eg Spanish) - you give me hope that I will be able to fit in if I try hard enough.
If you focus on Feli’s neck, as long as her chin is close to the mic, you can imagine her neck being very thin, like a skeleton neck. Adding to the Halloween vibe. 💀🧟♀️
Marci Gras is celebrated all along the gulf coast. Religious based. More like a parade as opposed to a carnival. We celebrated Reformation Day as a good Lutheran kid. Costumes weren’t too Scary as I’m remembering.
Both creepy stories! Feli was a little better at keeping her facial expressions serious for it. Josh always has his nice little smile that reassures everyone it's all good. When I took Latin in college, I remember our professor reading Roman ghost stories to us on Halloween and he would read this really grotesque slaughter scenes with absolutely no inflection in his voice. It was by turns disturbing and awesome. Great video!
I've always wondered if some American traditions have caught on closer to American military bases, like Kaiserslautern or Baumholder. Obviously, a number of Yanks & their families live off post and you have Americans who stayed after service. Would be interesting to explore.
Unhealthy?! . Some households handed out home made popcorn balls,nuts in the shell,apples ,real coins,jars of play dough,finger paints. Today,no candy,the kids get all sad faces. Lol.
Feli: Love your channel. Josh: Do you find that German is kind of like English looking words but pronounced in French... I am fluent in both English and French and took German for 2 semesters in university and I found I had a bit of an advantage. It has been awhile since then but since watching Feli's channel and you guys podcast ... I am really looking forward to get back to learning German.
Grew up in the South & Mardi Gras didn't really influence anyone outside of a city that celebrates like NOLA or Mobile. I think non-scary costumes have been around forever. There weren't that many scary costume options for kids years ago -- a ghost, a witch, a mummy, Dracula... But kids just want to dress up differently from their classmates.
As a guy from northern Germany I immediately notice Felis bavarian accent, although it's really slight. 😄 (ßie geht in den BlumEnlad'n.) Here in Hamburg we pronounce it like: "Sie geht in den Blum'nlad'n". But it seems like no matter where in Germany you come from, the last "e" in "Blumenladen" is always silent. 😂
Well then, those Germans that do not like that American tradition...get to experience the "trick" side of Trick or Treat. That is the implied contract.
The light bulb: looks like Josh kept the old one and added new ones of a different type ... maybe that's a problem? Candy collection: Feli forgot to mention that christian (catholic only?) German kids already have the tradition go through their neighbourhood to collect candy at St. Martins day (Laterne gehen / lantern walk), which is about 2 weeks after halloween ... so, that might be a reason why some people get/got annoyed about a "tradition" which seem to swaped over more for capitalistic reasons and doesn't seem necessary so soon befor the other candy collection tradition.
@@UnderstandingTrainStation Yes and no. We of course did the lantern walk on St. Martini (also as a protestant) in Munich in the 70/80s, but for me it is definitly new, that you would collect candies while doing it. This I never experienced, neither in Bavaria nor in Lower Saxonia, Baden-Württemberg or Thuringia. In Frankonia there is nearly no Halloween festivity till today. But we're on the one side very catholic here and on the other side live somewhere far behind the mountains. :)
@@UnderstandingTrainStation Interesting, again what learned ;) But, yeah, I can imagine that it is less done in cities anyway and maybe more so in towns and villages. Which makes me wonder ... do kids in cities like Houston, New York, Cincinnati go for trick or treat in their neighbourhood?
@@jurgenwilhelm5412 But you did go with the lantern to the neighbours after dawn to sing them a Saint Martins song? I can asure you that I experienced it as a kid in Lower Saxonia (loooong time ago). But back than I did live in a little town.
@@raythevagabond3724 No. It was a party organized by the Kindergarten. You would come together, light your lantern - which you built there in the weeks before - and have a walk together in the dark. You would sing songs, have fun and afterwards you would go back to the Kindergarten and drink some Kakao. That's all. I loved it that way.
Feli: Gibt es in Bayern kein Erntedankfest? Und, bei uns im Dorf sind wir früher am „Martinsabend“ herumgegangen, um Süßes zu sammeln. Vor jeder Tür wurde dasselbe Lied gesungen: „Martinsabend! Martinsabend! Martin ist ein guter Mann, dem man etwas schenken kann. Schenkt uns was! Schenkt uns was! Lasst uns nicht zu lange steh‘n, wir woll‘n noch ein Haus weitergeh‘n!“ Ich weiß auch noch, dass dann der Begriff „Halloween“ aufkam, der dann als „neumodischer Kram“ und „nicht traditionell“ abgetan wurde. Ich habe aber auch absolut keine Ahnung, wieviele Generationen vor uns von Tür zu Tür gegangen sind. Ich glaube, es war vielleicht sogar so, dass wir unverkleidet gegangen sind, und dann, als wir das erste Mal verkleidet waren, gefragt wurden, was das soll. Ganz sicher bin ich da aber nicht, ich müsste mal meine Geschwister fragen, ob die das noch wissen.
@@UnderstandingTrainStation Joa, wenn man nicht in der Kirche ist und da alles mitmacht… Ist halt das, was mir eingefallen ist zu „es gibt keine deutsche Herbst-Tradition.“ :)
@@3.k Erntedank haben wir hier (Kleinstadt südlich von München) nur im Kindergarten gefeiert, sonst hat das eigentlich keine Rolle gespielt. Und Sankt Martin haben wir auch gefeiert, allerdings zumindest hier im Süden Oberbayerns ziehen die Kinder an Sankt Martin nicht um die Häuser, bei uns gabs nur immer den Laternenumzug im Bereich der Kirche im Stadtzentrum. Deswegen ist Halloween bei uns tatsächlich recht beliebt und recht weit verbreitet (zumindest bei uns in der Nachbarschaft). Es gibt hier einfach keine andere Tradition, bei der Kinder um die Häuser ziehen.
Carnival in USA is in Larger City’s but The costumes is very adult almost naked…Religion is the reason for non scary costumes and little ones can get scared and have nightmares.
The frozen screen from Feli reminded me of a joke I heard:
German:
- Herr Doktor, ich höre Stimmen, sehe aber niemand.
- Wann ist das?
- Immer wenn ich telefoniere.
English:
- Doctor, I hear voices, but I don't see anybody.
- When is that?
- Every times, I use the telephone.
Feli needs to watch the "Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" Peanuts TV special.
Just listened and really enjoyed hearing your ghost stories! I wanted to add @27:00 that there's always a seasonal aisle at stores where Sept-Oct is Halloween, Nov-Dec is Christmas, Jan-Feb is Valentines Day, Mar-Apr is Easter, May-July is Graduation/summer/BBQ/4th of July and Aug is back-to-school. I know this since I always try to buy discounted candy the day after the holiday. lol! For Halloween candy, I've always enjoyed skittles since they try to trick you by having at least 1-2 candies be sour instead of their expected flavor (i.e. a red one would taste sour instead of strawberry.) I hope Josh gets better soon. BTW, congrats on ONE YEAR!!!! Hope you both keep creating content and share with us your thoughts/stories.
In my region in Germany there are fall celebrations in the form of Thanks Harvest celebrations (Erntedank) around the first weekend of October. I guess this is more a rural thing in farming villages. There is a church service, the church is decorated, there is a tractor parade, and hay rides, a "harvest crown" is made and hung up, a harvest queen is chosen, house fronts are decorated with fruits and flowers, beer tent and party and more.
I remember my grandma telling scare stories of the "Korn-Mume", who is an old woman or witch living in the corn field. She will catch children and cut their throats with her scythe, when kids just run off into the corn fields. I guess, that was a story to prevent kids from getting lost in same big corn field and tell them that a field is not a playground.
So in a way a different approach to the American corn maze.
44:20 - I think carnivals that have bobbing for apples use chlorinated water.
55:55 - Usually lights with motion sensors still have an light switch to turn them off...
38:48 yeah it's pretty widely clebrated here, shops will decorate, houses will be done. Lots of Halloween parties for kids as well as trick or treat, pumpkin carving competitions etc. I just moved 3 hours away for uni and there were a lot of houseparties here the whole week where people dressed up.
I KNEW Feli was gonna tell the story with the dog :D I actually know a slightly different version from when I was a kid though: in that version it's a young boy who's home alone and follows the dripping noise down to the basement after checking all the water taps in the house and that's where he finds his dog hanging from the ceiling and the message about murderers being able to lick hands too is written on the basement wall in the dog's blood - dunno if that version is known in other parts of Germany as well or if it's more of a regional thing 😅
Another story we told a lot when we were kids was about a creepy talking doll that keeps chanting "six six six" and has been brought back to the store by all the previous owners like a day after they bought it and basically what happens is that over night the child, who gets the doll as a gift in the story, mysteriously dies and then the next morning the doll is suddenly chanting "seven seven seven". When we told the story back in the day we would also always hold up six/seven fingers while chanting the numbers 😂
A few days after halloween we have Martinssingen, which is an old tradition an where children are getting candies for singing a little Song "Als Martin Luther ein Knabe war, da ist er gezogen so manches Jahr ...."
Josh: if they LEDs maybe the switch doesn't fit for LEDs. I had similar problems.
In the Rheinland we have Gribschen which is very similar to trick or treating but for St Martin's Day on 11th of November so people will think you are greedy coming the week before.
In Germany, especially in old houses, we don't need scary decorations. On old houses (very old houses) were very spooky faces carved in.
And no scary story😉they have lots off themselves😀
Our neighborhood held a Halloween block party (but on Saturday 10/30). Kids and adults invited. Some of our neighbors are decent musicians and play in local bands, so we had live music as well. The parents of smaller kids ran a kids only party on Hallowenn proper and then took them trick-or-treating. We were asked to setup a table at the end of our driveways with candy to minimize kids exposure to potential Covid. Our table had a lit jack-o-lantern as well. So we were "spared" the constant door bell ringing,
Growing up trick-or-treating in a Bavarian small town neighbourhood in the 2000s, we always followed the rule of thumb "If there's no decoration, don't bother". Houses that were participating and had candy for kids would put up Halloween decorations (some actually going all-out with their decorations as well, others just simply putting candles or carved pumpkins outside). If someone didn't want to participate, they'd just not decorate and the kids would know that they won't get anything there.
At least here in my neighborhood Halloween is actually pretty widespread with a lot of kids going around trick-or-treating and many houses actually having candy for them, maybe that's because we don't have any other tradition here in southern Bavaria that involves kids going from door to door and receiving candy or similar things, so Halloween sort of filled that gap.
Kids do this in the US. We know when lights are out and there is no decorations don't bother. Not everyone in the US enjoys Halloween. Big example is Jehovah's Witnesses. They dont celebrate any holiday that isnt about Jesus. I had a friend who was a Jehovah Witness and he would sneak out of his house with a white sheet with eyes cut out and came trick or treating with us. He hid his candy at home.
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Since today virtually everyone walks around with a camera in their pocket and surveillance cameras are everywhere, there would have to be an endless flood of high-resolution ghost photos if ghosts existed. It always amazes me how many modern, enlightened people still believe in such magical phenomena.😯
Who is to say that ghosts necessarily have to look like media portrays them...there's a lot of stuff in this world we don't understand yet, I wouldn't be surprised if ghosts actually existed in one form or another. Just like with god, I do believe that there is something out there, but I don't think it has anything to do with the picture Christianity or any other religion paints of it.
@@leDespicable Why the media? Rather, people who claim to have seen ghosts. For example, ghosts are described in the video as little boys or women in old clothes. If these were real phenomena, not only all people present would have to be able to see them, but also cameras that react to photons just like our eyes. If only one person sees the "ghost" the logical conclusion is that the brain of this person is doing something funny. Put yourself in a dark salt water tank where more or less all senses are turned off and you will start to see and hear all kinds of things after a short while. Not because they are there, but because your brain makes them up. And then there are people who suffer from psychoses or, perhaps, came into contact with psychoactive substances etc..
And for a God you have even less evidence, but you believe in it because you like the idea.🤷♂️
There are some events like "Kürbisausstellungen" ("pumpkin exhibitions") nowadays in Germany, where you can buy anything pumpkin 😅 The, I think, oldest one takes place in Ludwigsburg every year (my home town) in the gardens of the baroque palace close to the city centre. It's beautiful with huge sculptures made from pumpkins, food stands selling dishes with pumpkin (e. g. Spaghetti with pumpkin pesto) and you can buy pumpkins and seeds, decorations, etc... I can highly recommend a trip there in the fall 🍁
New Orleans checking in: Mardi Gras here almost shuts down the city for the parades. It's not an event to be taken lightly in regards to its planning. It is progression of separate celebrations that span multiple weeks, all culminating on "Fat Tuesday". So many people participate in it and so many people come to the city from out of town to experience it.
Regarding Halloween, there are so many haunted houses that get setup here. (There are also cemetery tours, but I think those tend to be historic, not spooky, but that's only from my perspective.) As for costumes, I've always seen a mix of scary & non-scary costumes here. Kids' costumes definitely trend toward non-scary.
Hi Feli, Ende Oktober 2019 bin ich mit meiner Tochter von Tifton kommend über Waycross und Folkstone auf Landstrassen nach St.Augustin FL gefahren. Auf der gesamten Strecke war, obwohl ja Halloween war so gut wie kein Haus geschmückt. Einige Farmen hatten ein paar Kürbisse vor der Einfahrt liegen. Aber in den Ortschaften nix. In St. Augustin wurden, wie immer ab 18:00 die Kantsteine hochgeklappt. In den Bars war normales Leben.
Meine Tochter und ich war total enttäusch, wir hatten auch in St.Augustin eigentlich mehr erwartet.
Um so schöner zu sehen was bei Euch so los ist. 👍👍
On the time change, its Spring forward and Fall back one hour. So set the clocks one hour forward in the spring and one back in the fall.
Most likely need a newer type dimmer that supports LED's.
The story "Der Hund" that Feli told at the end, is the exact story I have heard when I was young in English of course lol
When the children come to my parents house and ask for "Süßes oder Saures", my mother just asks back "Do you want sweet or sour?" because many don't really know why they use that slogan.
So she has not only sweets prepared, but also some lemons (=sour). The kids are often a little surprised but take them for the thrill of eating them later, and now some just instantly ask for the lemon 😁
Genius move! My aunt used to do that as well, I might have to ask her if she still does it hehe 🙃
You've got those Lamps on a dimmer switch, dont you? Most LEDs dont work with that.
The apple thing is a old kids birthday thing in Germany
I live in downtown Cologne for almost 20 years now. In all those years, only one (!) kid rang to trick-or-treat on Halloween. So I never felt like at least trick-or-treating is a big thing in Germany even today...
Varies greatly between regions, here in southern Bavaria (at least our region) it's pretty big.
HALLOween is an east coast pronunciation Felis kid like enthusiasm for sPo0kY stuff is adorable.
It's Samhain. The most important holiday of the year.
Feli: Despite your great, scary Halloween stories, the scariest one was hearing that when you would try to trick or treat as a child and would get a “Nein!” and a slammed door. Horrible! I also recommend candy corn. It should have its own food group. I have had the YumEarth brand, if you want the vegan version, and it’s pretty good for someone who isn’t vegan.
Josh: Congratulations on the new lights! I wasn’t anyone who particularly cared about that. But since your changing them, how about making them festive for the holidays? 😄 Good call on the candy corn. I hope you recover quickly again from your cold!
Both: Just a heads up, if I ever happen to run into either of you in public, it would be a “Hello, nice to meet you, my names Jason, can I buy you a beer for real instead of on Patreon?”😀 If that can’t break the ice, nothing will…🤣
The connection between language and cultural concepts: Did you know, that German used to have different words for aunt and uncle depending on the parent they were related to? "Tante" and "Onkel" were sister/sister-in-law and brother/brother-in-law of the father. The equivalent for the mother's side used to be "Muhme" and "Oheim" (conf. Die Muhme Rumpumpel in "Die kleine Hexe" or descriptions in "Lied des Nibelung").
Josh:this apple thing, I know as a childrens game at a child's birthday party.
In the country Ireland where Halloween originated they really take Halloween as a genuine holiday and celebrate way bigger than any other countries. I believe a couple of days festival if not mistaken. 😯
I was a child in the 1960s (California) and Halloween wasn't huge and commercialised as it is now. It was awesome because all the kids got to run around at night unsupervised. 55:20 Old people would turn off all their lights and pretend not to be home, they were the targets of the pranks, like TP-ing their cars or bushes, smearing shaving cream on their windows, or throwing eggs at their houses. My father said that growing up in the 1930s it was worse, like stealing a farmer's waggon etc. As far as 54:43 yes nowadays here religious people sometimes put signs on their doors saying that they don't participate in Halloween.
In Austria we have a lot going on in fall, interesting that Bavaria doesn't have those traditions - as the most "Austrian" of the German states :D
For example when mid September hits everyone gets crazy about going to the Buschenschank (kind of like a mountain hut but in the vineyards), eating Brettljause (lots of cold cuts, even cooked meat, with different spreads and bread of course) and drinking Sturm (I think in Germany it's called Federweißer). Also if you live in a village there's Erntedankfest, a celebration of the harvest of the season, of course accompanied by lots of pumpkin and corn among others.
And children, especially in Kindergarten have Laternenfest around the 11th of November, the day of Saint Martin. And going with the date we also eat Martinigansl (a roasted goose with red cabbage and bread dumplings) around that day. Every restaurant has it as a special.
But it could also be my specific region of Austria, in the southeast.
Sankt-Martins-Umzüge are a thing in Bavaria, as well as the Martinsgans tradition.
From my experience, when I was real little (1960's) kids dressed up in any costume they could get their hands on. Scary costumes were cool, but not mandatory, I was a devil when I was 5.
My friend was a cowboy.
The first story Josh told 😱 got me goosebumbs as f...
Josh, try one of those bulbs in a known good light fixture, like your desk lamp and see if it behaves differently? Does your ceiling light has a dimmer or is it a normal on/off thing? I've seen LEDs glow when light switch has a little neon bulb itself to help locate switch in the dark, those don't play well with LEDs.
In my experience in buying both LEDs and CFLs, you need to know if the circuit is on a dimmer, and buy the light marked as dimmable.
RE: Costumes. The "Trick or Treat" practice for children often involves the guessing what character the child is supposed to be. Also, it is fun to guess who the child is (neighbor, friend or relative).
Ich hätte da euch beiden eine Gruselgeschichte, die ich tatsächlich mal dem kleinen Bruder einer Bekannten erzählt habe. Ich war als Fernfahrer 27 Jahre mit dem LKW in ganz Europa unterwegs. Gewisse Bekannte, bzw deren Kinder durften in den Ferien auch mal mit mir mitfahren. Diese Geschichte erzählte ich dem Jungen, der anschließend sehr lange und sehr ruhig auf dem Beifahrersitz saß, und etwas blass daherschaute.
In einer kühlen regnerischen Helloween Nacht fuhr ich mit einem branntneuen MAN Richtung Heimat. Als mich ein silberner Audi überholte, sehr knapp vor mir einscherte, und die Bremslichter aufleuchten lies. Das Abstands- Bremssystem reagierte und leitete eine Bremsung ein. Die allerdings nicht unbedingt sanft ist. Ich wünschte dem Zeitgenossen nichts besonders Gutes und ärgerte mich über den verschütteten Kaffe auf meiner Hose. Noch 300 Kilometer, es beginnt wieder zu regnen. Der silberne Audi ist längst weg, und ich habe das seltsame Fahrmanöver längst abgehakt und fuhr an eier Raststätte vorbei. Da sah ich wie der Audi hinter mir aus der Raststätte in die Autobahn einfuhr, und mich langsam wieder überholte. Ich konnte den Fahrer am Steuer grinsen sehen. Ich bekam eine leichte Wut. Die nasse Hoss erinnerte mich wieder an den Blödsinn den der Audifahrer mit mir gemacht hat. Der Audi fuhr vorbei, und verschwand vor mit in der dunklen regnerischen Nacht. Jetzt kam noch ein unheimlich wirkender Nebel dazu. Mir wurde etwas kalt, so daß ich die Heizung etwas wärmer sellte. Ich dachte noch an den Audifahrer. "Solche Typen sollte der Blitz beim sch.... treffen", dachte ich noch so vor mich hin. Hinter mir tauchte ein reichlich beleuteter anderer LKW auf, und kam langsam immer näher. Ich fuhr die Geschwindigkeit bis zum Begenzer aus, 88 Km/h. Der andere LKW war hinter mir. Mein MAN brummte zufrieden vor sich hin und die Reifen sangen dazu das Lied der Autobahn, das Wasser auf der Straße spritzte von den Reifen zischend als Gischt in die Luft. Der andere LKW war ein Scania. Schön beleuchtet und mittlerweile fuhr er an mir vorbei. Der V8 des Scanias machte sich lautstark bemerkbar, ich hatte die Scheibe ein klein bisschen offen, so konnte man jeden einzelnen Zylinder des V8 hören. Mein MAN brummte zufrieden mit dem Scania und er zog langsam auf gleiche Höhe zu mir auf. Der schön beleutete Scania hatte ganz dunkle Seitenfenster. Da gieng das rote Innenlicht in dem Scania an, und ich erkannte eine seltsame Gestalt am Steuer. Er sah zu mir rüber und grinste. Das Radio meldete am Autobahnkreuz Weinsberg einen Unfall, man soll die Unfallstelle langsam passieren weil Teile auf der Autobahnen sind. Die Gestalt fing an zu lachen und der Scaniamotor wurde lauter, er zog mit einer unglaublichen Geschwindigkeit weg. Ich dachte noch an den silbernen Audi....
hey josh, hey feli, nice to listen to you ;)) feli said spooky was our go-to solution to capture the conotation of halloween. I dont really KNOW why this is but my first thought is regarding the similar core of pronounciation with the german 'Spukschluss' which, especially feli as a girl born in germany in the 90's probably knows, is , for many ppl, the kinda german go-to solution for halloween or scary things , how do you think this developed?
Feli, move to Arizona. No time changes and fastest growing county 6 years running (Maricopa which is Phoenix)
I heard a version of the creepy dog story as a kid growing up in Australia 😂
Thinking about it, I treat Halloween like the word neither. Sometimes I say Hallow-ween, other times Hollow-ween.
Josh has the day wrong. Nov 1 is All Soul's Day, Nov 2 is All Saints Day. Halloween is a contraction of All Hallows Eve.
Was merkwürdig ist.... ich hab einige Sachen an Dich in amerikanisch geschrieben, die sind alle nach kurzer Zeit verschwunden, spooky 🤣🤣🤣
I've always heard it as wee-jee board.
In Michigan, where I am at least, we say Hollow-ween and not Hallow-ween. And I pronounce Hallow as hollow as well.
Having my girls grow up in Utah, Halloween (hallo - ween) 9 of 10 times was in a snow storm. So now here in Ohio, with the Granddaughter, it was pouring rain, but at least it was a bit warmer :)
Alway wondered how/if Halloween was celebrated in Utah/Mormon Country.
The lightbulb pixie is in the house, somewhere.
In college we had trick or treating at one of the frat houses, except it was booze rather than candy.
I have never heard of a corn maze, maybe it's a mid west thing? Where they grow corn. No corn in Alaska.
We had them on Long Island (NY) too, so no, not just a midwest thing.
They're in Tennessee also. They're even in Florida.6
I recently learned there are two different kinds of LED lightbulbs, and the most common type doesn't work in my office life. I have to use Sylvania bulbs, with work fine. I can't remember how the LED bulbs are different. It might be different in Germany.
My Grandmother would ask me if I was going out Kinkling on Halloween, instead of calling it "Trick or Treating". This was in Cincinnati, but her parents were from Germany.
I (unfortunately) never did the trick or treating or dressing up on Halloween in Vienna as a kid - only watch the scary movies or tv episodes. I think I even heard first of Halloween back in the 90 (through American TV shows or movies). But it was not well known and not practiced. But I rather know the version "Süßes sonst gibt's Saures".
Funny side note: In Vienna, we call it sometimes "Hallo Wien" (as a pun because that sounds nearly identical to Halloween)
And I thought as well that in America they will also dress as something non-scary because we in Germany and Austria have that opportunity during Fasching.
Aber im Herbst ist doch Oktoberfest und alle möglichen Weinfeste und Stoppelfest und alles!
🎼Matten- Mattnthien🎵is a german opportunity to collect candy at people‘s houses. But you have to sing nicely for it!
The custom that children go from house to house and get candy exists - in a different form - in Germany, too. On November 11th (the day of Saint Martin) the children walk through their neighborhood with self-made lanterns and ring the doorbells. But they have to sing a Martin's song to get the candy.. :)
I've never heard of that in Bavaria 😀 Laterne laufen of course, but no candy involved.
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In the Rhineland, where I come from, this was very common, at least in earlier times. A line in one of the songs was: "A rich man lives here who can give us something. If he gives us a lot, he should live long, he shall die blessed and acquire the kingdom of heaven. So don't let us stand so long, because we have to go on, go on."
A little candy for the redemption of your soul - a very pragmatic catholic approach. :))
Yeah, I am very confused that Feli doesn't know this. But maybe it's not a thing in Bavaria. In the Ruhr area it is, though
In English- in, say, Jane Austen novels, the word 'mother in-law' subs for 'stepmother', too.
Halloween hasn't always been scary. In the US, it evolved over the years, from being a fun, kid's candy collecting holiday with 'cute' kid-friendly imagery of black cats, ghosts, witches and vampires to being geared toward adults partying, wearing costumes that are sexy, current pop culture or horror based. In the 70s, Halloween was for children. Today, not as many kids trick-or-treat because it's generally seen as being unsafe (even pre-covid) or inappropriate for children. I figure the rise in popularity of the 80s bloody horror movie genre had something to do with that. Horror movie characters used to be like old school Frankenstein, Dracula or Wicked Witch of the West. Now, they're centered on violence as we've grown to accept more violence in our everyday lives as Americans.
If you want another topic to maybe explore, try some scary stories involving creatures in Ohio or Bavaria. In Ohio, there seems to be hotspots in the state for Bigfoot, Dogman, and the Ohio Grassman. There is even a big yearly conference in Salt Fork State Park in Eastern Ohio about Bigfoot/Sasquatch. If you ever encounter one of these creatures, you will get the crap scared out of you.
I'm Feli's age and from Germany as well, and I was never allowed to go trick or treating. When I was a kid, it just wasn't a thing at all in my neighborhood (extremely conservative, posh). But we moved to a very international and kid-friendly neighborhood when I was a pre-teen, and most kids there did it. I wasn't allowed to join in because my parents thought (still think) Halloween is stupid American consumerist bullshit. It was never about the candy, but I guess they hate fantasy and they dislike unfamiliar traditions, especially if they're American for whatever reason. And that combination just doesn't work in Halloween's favor. :/
I would love to dress up and go to a spooky Halloween party, but my friend doesn't do Halloween either, and I wouldn't want to go alone. Uni was always too far for me to attend nighttime parties. So I just sit here every year, all jealous of Americans lol. If I grew up American, I swear Halloween would be *my* kind of thing. I LOVE horror and fantasy stuff!
Edit: And yes, my parents always switch off the lights and even the doorbell on Halloween.
Ihr lasst jedes Jahr St. Martin aus. Ist das Understanding Train Station oder Understanding America ?
St. Martin war doch da noch gar nicht? 😅
@@UnderstandingTrainStation Oh, so you are doing it today ? Alright.
Halloween halloween, tomato tomato - it's all in the pronunciation.... Sad to say, I couldn't follow Feli's storytelling in German (a case of "ich verstehe nur Bahnhof" indeed...), though "tropf...tropf...tropf..." was very evocative, so thanks for the English retelling. It's great to see how German Josh is and how American Feli is - good advertisements for cultural immersion. One day (...) I intend to depart my own home nation (UK) to settle somewhere sunnier and that will entail learning another language (eg Spanish) - you give me hope that I will be able to fit in if I try hard enough.
If you focus on Feli’s neck, as long as her chin is close to the mic, you can imagine her neck being very thin, like a skeleton neck.
Adding to the Halloween vibe. 💀🧟♀️
Marci Gras is celebrated all along the gulf coast. Religious based. More like a parade as opposed to a carnival. We celebrated Reformation Day as a good Lutheran kid. Costumes weren’t too Scary as I’m remembering.
"Karneval" isn't celebrated as a "carnival" in Germany either :) It's just the name of the holiday/celebration. -Feli
Both creepy stories! Feli was a little better at keeping her facial expressions serious for it. Josh always has his nice little smile that reassures everyone it's all good. When I took Latin in college, I remember our professor reading Roman ghost stories to us on Halloween and he would read this really grotesque slaughter scenes with absolutely no inflection in his voice. It was by turns disturbing and awesome. Great video!
I've always wondered if some American traditions have caught on closer to American military bases, like Kaiserslautern or Baumholder. Obviously, a number of Yanks & their families live off post and you have Americans who stayed after service. Would be interesting to explore.
My mom was a real scrooge. She would put a sign up saying 'Out of Candy' at like noon.
Unhealthy?! . Some households handed out home made popcorn balls,nuts in the shell,apples ,real coins,jars of play dough,finger paints. Today,no candy,the kids get all sad faces. Lol.
Feli: Love your channel.
Josh: Do you find that German is kind of like English looking words but pronounced in French... I am fluent in both English and French and took German for 2 semesters in university and I found I had a bit of an advantage. It has been awhile since then but since watching Feli's channel and you guys podcast ... I am really looking forward to get back to learning German.
I never understood what the fun about scaring people is ?
Feli must have driven her parents crazy when she was a kid with all her, "Why? Why?
Why? Whys?"
Grew up in the South & Mardi Gras didn't really influence anyone outside of a city that celebrates like NOLA or Mobile. I think non-scary costumes have been around forever. There weren't that many scary costume options for kids years ago -- a ghost, a witch, a mummy, Dracula... But kids just want to dress up differently from their classmates.
The Headless Horseman made pumpkins scary from Disney cartoons
As a guy from northern Germany I immediately notice Felis bavarian accent, although it's really slight. 😄 (ßie geht in den BlumEnlad'n.)
Here in Hamburg we pronounce it like: "Sie geht in den Blum'nlad'n".
But it seems like no matter where in Germany you come from, the last "e" in "Blumenladen" is always silent. 😂
„Sie geht in‘n Blum‘nlad‘n.“ 😃
@@3.k That would be more accurate, yes 😄
@@koba2140 Eigentlich kann man das d ebenfalls weglassen. Also FAST. 😁
@@3.k "Sie geht in Blumlahn" würd ich sagen 😂
@@koba2140 Kommt hin, Herr Nachbar! 😄
Well then, those Germans that do not like that American tradition...get to experience the "trick" side of Trick or Treat. That is the implied contract.
The light bulb: looks like Josh kept the old one and added new ones of a different type ... maybe that's a problem?
Candy collection: Feli forgot to mention that christian (catholic only?) German kids already have the tradition go through their neighbourhood to collect candy at St. Martins day (Laterne gehen / lantern walk), which is about 2 weeks after halloween ... so, that might be a reason why some people get/got annoyed about a "tradition" which seem to swaped over more for capitalistic reasons and doesn't seem necessary so soon befor the other candy collection tradition.
Only in some parts of Germany :) We don't do that in munich for example -Feli
@@UnderstandingTrainStation Yes and no. We of course did the lantern walk on St. Martini (also as a protestant) in Munich in the 70/80s, but for me it is definitly new, that you would collect candies while doing it. This I never experienced, neither in Bavaria nor in Lower Saxonia, Baden-Württemberg or Thuringia.
In Frankonia there is nearly no Halloween festivity till today. But we're on the one side very catholic here and on the other side live somewhere far behind the mountains. :)
@@UnderstandingTrainStation Interesting, again what learned ;)
But, yeah, I can imagine that it is less done in cities anyway and maybe more so in towns and villages.
Which makes me wonder ... do kids in cities like Houston, New York, Cincinnati go for trick or treat in their neighbourhood?
@@jurgenwilhelm5412 But you did go with the lantern to the neighbours after dawn to sing them a Saint Martins song?
I can asure you that I experienced it as a kid in Lower Saxonia (loooong time ago). But back than I did live in a little town.
@@raythevagabond3724 No. It was a party organized by the Kindergarten. You would come together, light your lantern - which you built there in the weeks before - and have a walk together in the dark. You would sing songs, have fun and afterwards you would go back to the Kindergarten and drink some Kakao. That's all. I loved it that way.
Josh - I think you may not be able to cope with weather in Germany ;)
Feli: Gibt es in Bayern kein Erntedankfest?
Und, bei uns im Dorf sind wir früher am „Martinsabend“ herumgegangen, um Süßes zu sammeln. Vor jeder Tür wurde dasselbe Lied gesungen:
„Martinsabend! Martinsabend!
Martin ist ein guter Mann,
dem man etwas schenken kann.
Schenkt uns was! Schenkt uns was!
Lasst uns nicht zu lange steh‘n,
wir woll‘n noch ein Haus weitergeh‘n!“
Ich weiß auch noch, dass dann der Begriff „Halloween“ aufkam, der dann als „neumodischer Kram“ und „nicht traditionell“ abgetan wurde. Ich habe aber auch absolut keine Ahnung, wieviele Generationen vor uns von Tür zu Tür gegangen sind.
Ich glaube, es war vielleicht sogar so, dass wir unverkleidet gegangen sind, und dann, als wir das erste Mal verkleidet waren, gefragt wurden, was das soll. Ganz sicher bin ich da aber nicht, ich müsste mal meine Geschwister fragen, ob die das noch wissen.
Doch gibt es, aber das feiert doch schon lange niemand mehr so richtig... Hat zumindest in meinem Leben noch nie ne Rolle gespielt. -Feli
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Joa, wenn man nicht in der Kirche ist und da alles mitmacht… Ist halt das, was mir eingefallen ist zu „es gibt keine deutsche Herbst-Tradition.“ :)
@@3.k Erntedank haben wir hier (Kleinstadt südlich von München) nur im Kindergarten gefeiert, sonst hat das eigentlich keine Rolle gespielt. Und Sankt Martin haben wir auch gefeiert, allerdings zumindest hier im Süden Oberbayerns ziehen die Kinder an Sankt Martin nicht um die Häuser, bei uns gabs nur immer den Laternenumzug im Bereich der Kirche im Stadtzentrum. Deswegen ist Halloween bei uns tatsächlich recht beliebt und recht weit verbreitet (zumindest bei uns in der Nachbarschaft). Es gibt hier einfach keine andere Tradition, bei der Kinder um die Häuser ziehen.
Holla ween
No captions this episode. Bummer.
it's all hallow's eve and halloween. i have never heard anyone pronounce it holloween.
Bulbs are too high total voltage
Damn...I missed my life...nah, not just so bad...ahmmmmm well, just a little bit :-)
If it didn't have a face it probably wouldn't have 'Jack' in the name.
First! Whoho!
Carnival in USA is in Larger City’s but The costumes is very adult almost naked…Religion is the reason for non scary costumes and little ones can get scared and have nightmares.