Autumn Break

[wiseheart]

Drat, where's everybody? I finally got home from a week of slave labour, and the internet all around me is dead. :(

Comments

[ooxc.livejournal.com]

In the UK, it's a reprehensible annual tradition of burning the effigy of a man who died in a torture chamber; admittedly, he was caught with explosives on the premises where the monarch would be meeting the politicians of the day - so the effigy-burning was probably an effective way of reminding the populace that it's a bad idea to be caught near a monarch with explosives.
Our family tradition in the 1950s, because my birthday was during half-term, was to postpone the party until the 5th, when we had my birthday party with bonfire and fireworks, but without effigy

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

It seems to have a general popularity, burning the effigies of unlikeable persons, doesn't it? Every country seems to have its bad guy to burn... and the subject changes with political changes.