Creepy & Chaotic Carnival Rites To Welcome Spring

[Steven]

As the winter darkness receded, our ancestors would seize any opportunity to talk trash, scare evil spirits with a funny hat, kill pretend bears, throw food or set something on fire

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeand...-creepy-chaotic-carnival-rites-welcome-spring

 

[Frideswide]

Please tell me that isn't on the same land mass as me!

 

[Steven]

I think the writer - ordinarily a Guardian columnist - concentrated on 'those wacky foreigners' in this article. They're being criticised in the Comments section for their flippant remarks.

 

[Kondoru]

What the columnist doesnt realise yet is that Spring will come anyway.