Monday, November 15, 2010
Guy Fawkes day
Hey guys it's Grace again posting about Guy Fawkes Day. On Saturday night we went to Maia and Orion's for Guy Fawkes Day which is an English holiday. It was super fun. Guy Fawkes was Catholic and wanted to keep it that way. He did not want the religion to change to Protestant. He planed to kill King James and the Parliament so one night he and some other guys crept out and rolled a lot of barrels of gunpowder under the building of Parliament. Some guards checked the cellar and arrested Guy. he was torchered him into giving his commrades away. His punishment was being hanged drawn and quartered.He commited suicide instead. King James told everyone in England to have a bond fire every 5th of November in honor of Guy Fawkes. So we got to burn an effigy of Guy and have an all together fun night.
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Old Guy Fawkes. Also, in the UK the kids "collect a penny" for the Guy. Kind of like "trick or treat" in the USA.
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Grace, I´m impressed. Guess why the Poehnix from Professor Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter books from the the english author Joanne K. Rowling is called „Fawkes“. He is still alive in the pop culture life.
ReplyDelete„Remember, remember the fifth of November
Gunpowder, treason and plot.
I see no reason why the gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.“
Alex from Germany