Customs in autumn
Customs in autumn are festivals, celebrations and activities that have been a tradition for a long time and are celebrated in autumn , i.e. between September 23rd and December 21st. These include:
- Mehragan
- Thanksgiving
- All Saints Day
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Martin's parade
- Celebrated on November 11th or the day before, the Martinsfest is a festival valued by children, as they then move around with lanterns and are regionally also served with awakenings or pretzels by an open fire . Also, the martinisingen one of them, also the Martinsgans food to which the custom of geese poems is preserved.
- Martini celebrations are held in the wine-growing regions of Austria around November 11th . On November 11th the new vintage will be the Heuriger . Various organizations such as wine fraternities , communities, winegrowers' cooperatives, etc. a. are organizers.
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Barbara branches
- Barbara branches are mostly cherry branches but also other branches of fruit trees that are cut on December 4th, the day of St. Barbara, and placed in a vase in the apartment. They then bloom for Christmas.
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Nicholas
- Klaasohm , a ritual restricted to the island of Borkum.
Oktoberfests and Halloween , which comes from the USA, are also celebrated regionally . The Lucia Festival is mainly celebrated in Sweden on December 13th . Girls are chosen to be Lucia's bride and their heads are adorned with a wreath of lights. They then distribute gifts and bring the light to people in the middle of the dark northern winter.
In addition, it is customary in autumn, when the changed weather conditions bring more wind, to fly kites , to collect chestnuts to make chestnut men and other things, and to set up an Advent wreath at the beginning of Advent .