It was a bright and sunny Sunday.
I walk along the promenade next to the Sava river.
The plateau, where weekend bazaars are often held, is crowded.
I'll stop by to see what the reason is.
Halloween...
A holiday that is celebrated by Catholics, and which we Serbs of the Orthodox faith have accepted as a holiday to celebrate.
So we also dress up, go to Halloween parties, carve pumpkins in the shape of skulls, place witches and skeletons wherever we go...
We accept other people's customs and holidays that are basically celebrated as remembrance of the dead, as if we don't have our own holidays...
I remember once, when I was talking with a friend about the celebration of Halloween and our customs...
On Halloween, kids dress up in their "scary" costumes and go door to door, they speak "Trick or treat" and get chocolates and candy.
They put on masks and make-up that represents them as dead... And it's like scary...?
That friend says to me: "You know what's scary? When someone dies outside the city in a village, and they lay him out in an open coffin in the living room, and they keep vigil by his corpse all night, while candles are lit in a bowl next to him.. ..
The people gather in the yard, usually under the tent, everyone has a drink, and after that they go to the living room to express their condolences and say goodbye to the deceased. And then at again, under the tent, for lunch...
At some point, they take the dead man to the yard and read the funeral. And after that, the funeral procession to the cemetery and burial in the village cemetery, muddy and cold...
And it's even scarier when people goes out to the cemetery on the days when we celebrate memorial services (some of which are both summer and winter...). Then a tablecloth is spread over the grave of the deceased and a complete lunch is placed on it, consisting of appetizers, main course and dessert, cakes and cookies. Well, everyone who came to the deceased's grave should eat there, they say "It's good"(po srpskom - valja se). Well, that's scary."
I remembered that story of his a month ago, when I was in the village for my uncle's funeral.
While walking around the Belgrade Halloween bazaar, I didn't feel the slightest bit of such chills.
The only thing that would have been scary for me is that I was there in the dark of night, and these "ghost" scarves were illuminated by a brilliant white light, with the sounds of a howling ominous siren, the clanking of chains and the howling of the wind swaying noiselessly between the branches of the trees.
A skeleton placed on a barrel or a "frown" pumpkin, on a sunny day (without a candle in its interior that would make it scary in the dark night) seem interesting to me, not at all scary.
Drilling and playing with this many pumpkins every year, I personally consider a big loss.
I have an excellent recipe for pumpkin potage, and I see today that a new line of Nutrino lab porridge, with pumpkin flavor, has been released.
A much tastier use of those same pumpkins...
Until I go to some Halloween masquerade party and stumble upon something that will scare me, in this week's #POBPhotocontest, I'm sharing these few Halloween-related pictures.
Thank you for stopping by my post and I hope you enjoyed the photos and the story I shared with you
All photos are my property, taken with a mobile phone Samsung S24+
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