I was in the church this year with my family because we are honoring my grandpa who died this year. We are not religious, but we see the church as a place to hold cozy, nice rituals.
I remember it starting to become a thing in the early to mid 90âs, itâs pretty big now but not so much in the cities where there are residential buildings where trick or treaters canât get in.
I was born in the late 80s and I don't remember "Halloween" being very big growing up so, as another person said, "Halloween" activities (as opposed to All Saints traditions/activities) starting around that time sounds about right. On the other hand, I do remember going to cemeteries with family members when young and seeing the seas of tiny, flickering lights. I always loved that. Something that's much bigger and older for us in Sweden are the Easter activities. They more resemble the American Halloween traditions. During that time, all kids regardless of gender dressed up as witches and went around asking for treats. Lol, about the difference in bus and buss. It's all in where you put the stress of the pronunciation. Lila (purple) and lilla (small) is the same. We have a few of these. See a double letter or a k versus ck in a Swedish word? It will change the pronunciation. Just as accents(Âī) will. Fun fact for you in relation to the note about the dentist in your town: There's a place in the UK called Pity Me.
@Eyrenni oh, very interesting! Is it all sorts of costumes for Easter, or primarily the witches? I have listened to the video a few times and I can _sort of_ hear the difference between bus and buss, and like you said, it's in the accent. It's not something I would hear easily, though. Although it's definitely not as confusing as having many words that are spelled differently, with different meanings, that sound exactly the same... which we have quite a bit in English (ate-eight, by-bye-buy, do-due-dew, and so on). Called homophones... does Swedish have many of those? I'm pretty sure dentists secretly love the stereotype that they're very unpleasant... ðĪĢ
@@michael.adamyk Re Easter. When I was a kid, the girls dressed up as witches and the boys as "male witches", it was typically kind of stereotypes of elders. The girls would wear head scarfs and have freckles painted on their face, and the boys would wear a top hat, a mustache, and use a cane. The thing wasn't about "Trick or treat", we'd paint pictures and traded those for candy. At least in the cities, this tradition is pretty much gone, since code locks makes it hard to enter buildings. AFAIK this was only for young children, no costume parties for young adults.
â@@michael.adamyk As another person said, yeah, we have a few full on homophones and then a few near homophones. I don't know if it's just that I have a good ear for languages, but some English homophones sound subtly different to me. The "by" and "buy" is the hardest to distinguish for me by sound. In general, since we inflect even adjectives as the video showed, I'm not sure if that increases or decreases our chance of homophones. We do have a few place names that fall into that horrible pit though. Elmsta and Ãlmsta. It's just a different spelling for the same place.ð
@@knowledgeisgood9645 To be fair, this is our most amusing homophone in my opinion. In English you can say "ball and chain" but we just straight up went there from the start with the word itself.
I'm 30 and I remember kids trying to trick or treat when I was a kid. It has never been popular where I live. No kid has knocked on our door for years now. Teachers told us not to dress up because a elderly women had passed out when she opened her door to a kid dressed as a demon. My parents said things like "THAT is american, we DON'T do that here". I prefer to just visit the cemetery and light candles
As a swede, the first time I went to a Halloween party was in the very late 90's (1999), but it was not that common back then. Trick or treats became more common about 10 years later, and still today not on the level as in the US.
All Saints Day was originally a catholic celebration that goes all the way back to the time when Sweden was a catholic country, i.e. before the reformation during the first half of the 16th century. The catholics worshiped a plethora of saints, and each saint had a dedicated day in the calendar. As there wasn't enough days in a year for every sant and martyr, one day of the year was dedicated to all the lesser saints who didn't have a day of their own, hence All Saints Day. Although the worshiping of saints was abolished by the reformation, All Saints Day was retained. But instead it became a day of remembrance of the dead and honoring their memory.
Happy Halloween! ððŧð· The fun swedish-channel and it's host is pretty known for not having their facts straight. Just a heads up. She teaches Swedish but doesn't get the history or words etymology correct and mixes stuff up. Take it with a grain of salt, It"s certainly not in deprh. Halloween began to be celebrated in the late 80s-mid 90s in Sweden. It's kids/teenagers but also adults who have parties and dress up. It can be cute ghosts at preschools or scarier and darker at amusement parks and parties/clubs for adults. Trick or treat is not that big, mostly decorating and dressing up. Love it! âĪïļâðĨ But not all Swedes (or Europeans) do, especially older generations. Maybe 50% take part in some way, families with smaller kids probably even more. Schools and daycare usually do crafts and some "spooky" activities during the day. Halloween candy is popular, but we don't have all the things you have in the US. Like the UK and so on we take it quite a bit easier, but still have some fun. ð
@GuinevereKnight great to see you back, thanks for watching... and Happy Halloween! ð Good to know about the channel. I've learned that's the case with some other channels too... you can't always trust everything they say, and independent research is important! There are times when I wonder if most of our biggest holidays in America have become that way partly because we get pushed the "consumer culture" thing so much... candy overflows in stores for Halloween, and then immediately after they switch to Christmas gifts, decorations, etc... Christmas stuff is now sold for a full two months! "Smaller" holidays are those where people don't tend to spend as much money. I find it most ironic that our "Thanksgiving Day" is now followed by "Black Friday," the biggest shopping day of the year, and it usually overtakes the holiday. Of course, the whole consumerism in the United States is a completely different discussion, haha! But one that might be interesting exploring in a video!
@michael.adamyk Hi Michael! Nice to hear from you too. ð Yes, I see what you mean and that has sort of become the same way here. Buying things seems like the most important thing, not the actual holiday and what it stands for. I find that sad. It's not as extreme here, and some of us fight it. That's one of the reasons people over here are sceptical of "American" holidays (they usually think Halloween is American). I like finding my own relation to the holiday and don't bother so much with the rest. Being creative and having fun, learning about the history and feeling the bonds to previous generations is what I like. Just buying more stuff doesn't feel fulfilling, more like you have a giant hole to fill but don't understand what the actual root cause is. Sad for both people and the enviroment. Connecting deeper is key (inwards, to nature, seeing the bigger picture etc) Some contemplation is good, like with All Saint's day I guess. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the spooky season! ðððŊ
@GuinevereKnight hi there! Would love to hear more what fact in this video was incorrect according to you? So we can learn from it, if we made a mistake. Like you wrote not all Swedes celebrate it the same way (and we are aware of that) but we still think it is valuable to share how it can look like for some Swedes. And like you wrote this is a short introduction to Halloween / Alla helgons dag and there is a lot more to say about it :) We need a longer video to go deeper.
@@FunSwedish Hej! Toppen att ni vill bli bÃĪttre! Det ÃĪr inte bara i denna video det smyger sig in ett antal fel och missfÃķrstÃĨnd angÃĨende historia och etymologi, jag orkar inte ta diskussionen tyvÃĪrr. Det ÃĪr ganska basala faktafel som gÃĨr att googla, kolla pÃĨ Wikipedia eller SAOL innan videor publiceras. Som svensk ÃĪr det enkelt att se dem, men nÃĪr man ska lÃĪra ut till mÃĪnniskor som varken kan svenska eller ÃĪr hemma pÃĨ svensk kultur ÃĪr det bra att man inte utger sig fÃķr att vara expert nÃĪr det tyvÃĪrr inte ÃĪr fallet. Jag fÃķrstÃĨr att intentionen ÃĪr god men att lÃĪra ut ÃĪr ett (stort) ansvar. Lite bÃĪttre research skulle gÃķra era videor sÃĨ mycket mer trovÃĪrdiga och inte missvisande. (Jag har sett mÃĨnga av era videor pÃĨ andra reaction channels, sÃĨ det ÃĪr en samlad bedÃķmning av mÃĨnga basala mindre eller stÃķrre fel som tiltar era fÃķrklaringar i sÃĨ gott som alla videor jag sett.) I tider av problem med kÃĪllor, faktaglidningar, mÃĪnniskor som tror pÃĨ allt som sÃĪgs pÃĨ internet sÃĨ ÃĪr det bra att vara noggrann med fÃķrarbete och publiceringar. Ni kan sÃĪkert fÃĨ till detta! :)
@@FunSwedish Hej! Toppen att ni vill bli bÃĪttre! Det ÃĪr inte bara i denna video det smyger sig in ett antal fel och missfÃķrstÃĨnd angÃĨende historia och etymologi, jag orkar inte ta diskussionen tyvÃĪrr. Det ÃĪr ganska basala faktafel som gÃĨr att googla, kolla pÃĨ Wikipedia eller SAOL innan videor publiceras. Som svensk ÃĪr det rÃĪtt enkelt att upptÃĪcka dem, men nÃĪr man ska lÃĪra ut till mÃĪnniskor som varken kan svenska eller ÃĪr hemma pÃĨ svensk kultur ÃĪr det bra att man inte utger sig fÃķr att vara expert nÃĪr det tyvÃĪrr inte ÃĪr fallet. Jag fÃķrstÃĨr att intentionen ÃĪr god men att lÃĪra ut ÃĪr ett (stort) ansvar. Lite bÃĪttre research skulle gÃķra era videor sÃĨ mycket mer trovÃĪrdiga och inte missvisande. (Jag har sett mÃĨnga av era videor pÃĨ andra reaction channels, sÃĨ det ÃĪr en samlad bedÃķmning av mÃĨnga basala mindre eller stÃķrre fel som tiltar era fÃķrklaringar i sÃĨ gott som alla videor jag sett.) I tider av problem med kÃĪllor, faktaglidningar, mÃĪnniskor som tror pÃĨ allt som sÃĪgs pÃĨ internet sÃĨ ÃĪr det bra att vara noggrann med fÃķrarbete och publiceringar. Ni kan sÃĪkert fÃĨ till detta! :)
True that Halloween was never very big in the UK, and neither was All Saints day in the 20th Century. Lately due to TV & films from the USA, Halloween has become quite big. Halloween is mostly a Pagan tradition based around Samhain, where as All Saints day is Christian day. Halloween is the 31st October, an evening celebration, the Christians tried to steal the Pagan festival by making All Saints Day on the 1st November. Samhain is the beginning of Winter half of the year. All Saints Day (also known as All Hallows Day) was invented to replace the Pagan celebration and persuade the people to celebrate the Christian Saints. Samhain came long, long before the Christian celebrations and was very important to the peasantry hence the Church trying to purloin the festival.
I'm saying this all as a gode (priest) of the Norse Church. Something that unfortunately isn't mentioned is the "Alva" or blot of the Alvas. Which imho is the gods damned origin of Halloween. It's the great feast of the last harvest. Among us Norse (Norse is a term for followers of the ancient Nordic folkish religion.) it's celebrated this time of year. It's to celebrate all the hardships we've gone through throughout the year and it's a time to gather good memories to carry us through the winter darkness. It's kinda an antithesis to "ordinary" Halloween in that we celebrate life and try to gather good vibes to carry us through the winter instead of "getting our spook on" ð Ie, me and my family actually watch feel-good movies and eat all our favorite dishes throughout the weekend, in order to build up these good vibes to keep us happy through the winter.
Your reaction video was very nice! Thank you for showing interest in our culture and our channel :)
I was in the church this year with my family because we are honoring my grandpa who died this year. We are not religious, but we see the church as a place to hold cozy, nice rituals.
I remember it starting to become a thing in the early to mid 90âs, itâs pretty big now but not so much in the cities where there are residential buildings where trick or treaters canât get in.
It was sometime in the 90s that things started to take off with Halloween.
I was born in the late 80s and I don't remember "Halloween" being very big growing up so, as another person said, "Halloween" activities (as opposed to All Saints traditions/activities) starting around that time sounds about right. On the other hand, I do remember going to cemeteries with family members when young and seeing the seas of tiny, flickering lights. I always loved that.
Something that's much bigger and older for us in Sweden are the Easter activities. They more resemble the American Halloween traditions. During that time, all kids regardless of gender dressed up as witches and went around asking for treats.
Lol, about the difference in bus and buss. It's all in where you put the stress of the pronunciation. Lila (purple) and lilla (small) is the same. We have a few of these. See a double letter or a k versus ck in a Swedish word? It will change the pronunciation. Just as accents(Âī) will.
Fun fact for you in relation to the note about the dentist in your town: There's a place in the UK called Pity Me.
@Eyrenni oh, very interesting! Is it all sorts of costumes for Easter, or primarily the witches?
I have listened to the video a few times and I can _sort of_ hear the difference between bus and buss, and like you said, it's in the accent. It's not something I would hear easily, though. Although it's definitely not as confusing as having many words that are spelled differently, with different meanings, that sound exactly the same... which we have quite a bit in English (ate-eight, by-bye-buy, do-due-dew, and so on). Called homophones... does Swedish have many of those?
I'm pretty sure dentists secretly love the stereotype that they're very unpleasant... ðĪĢ
@@michael.adamyk Yes we have. Gift can mean "married" or "poison" - to name one. Same sound and spelling.
@@michael.adamyk Re Easter. When I was a kid, the girls dressed up as witches and the boys as "male witches", it was typically kind of stereotypes of elders. The girls would wear head scarfs and have freckles painted on their face, and the boys would wear a top hat, a mustache, and use a cane.
The thing wasn't about "Trick or treat", we'd paint pictures and traded those for candy.
At least in the cities, this tradition is pretty much gone, since code locks makes it hard to enter buildings.
AFAIK this was only for young children, no costume parties for young adults.
â@@michael.adamyk As another person said, yeah, we have a few full on homophones and then a few near homophones. I don't know if it's just that I have a good ear for languages, but some English homophones sound subtly different to me. The "by" and "buy" is the hardest to distinguish for me by sound.
In general, since we inflect even adjectives as the video showed, I'm not sure if that increases or decreases our chance of homophones. We do have a few place names that fall into that horrible pit though. Elmsta and Ãlmsta. It's just a different spelling for the same place.ð
@@knowledgeisgood9645 To be fair, this is our most amusing homophone in my opinion. In English you can say "ball and chain" but we just straight up went there from the start with the word itself.
I'm 30 and I remember kids trying to trick or treat when I was a kid. It has never been popular where I live. No kid has knocked on our door for years now. Teachers told us not to dress up because a elderly women had passed out when she opened her door to a kid dressed as a demon. My parents said things like "THAT is american, we DON'T do that here". I prefer to just visit the cemetery and light candles
As a swede, the first time I went to a Halloween party was in the very late 90's (1999), but it was not that common back then. Trick or treats became more common about 10 years later, and still today not on the level as in the US.
All Saints Day was originally a catholic celebration that goes all the way back to the time when Sweden was a catholic country, i.e. before the reformation during the first half of the 16th century. The catholics worshiped a plethora of saints, and each saint had a dedicated day in the calendar. As there wasn't enough days in a year for every sant and martyr, one day of the year was dedicated to all the lesser saints who didn't have a day of their own, hence All Saints Day. Although the worshiping of saints was abolished by the reformation, All Saints Day was retained. But instead it became a day of remembrance of the dead and honoring their memory.
Happy Halloween! ððŧð·
The fun swedish-channel and it's host is pretty known for not having their facts straight. Just a heads up. She teaches Swedish but doesn't get the history or words etymology correct and mixes stuff up. Take it with a grain of salt, It"s certainly not in deprh.
Halloween began to be celebrated in the late 80s-mid 90s in Sweden. It's kids/teenagers but also adults who have parties and dress up. It can be cute ghosts at preschools or scarier and darker at amusement parks and parties/clubs for adults. Trick or treat is not that big, mostly decorating and dressing up. Love it! âĪïļâðĨ But not all Swedes (or Europeans) do, especially older generations. Maybe 50% take part in some way, families with smaller kids probably even more. Schools and daycare usually do crafts and some "spooky" activities during the day. Halloween candy is popular, but we don't have all the things you have in the US. Like the UK and so on we take it quite a bit easier, but still have some fun. ð
@GuinevereKnight great to see you back, thanks for watching... and Happy Halloween! ð
Good to know about the channel. I've learned that's the case with some other channels too... you can't always trust everything they say, and independent research is important!
There are times when I wonder if most of our biggest holidays in America have become that way partly because we get pushed the "consumer culture" thing so much... candy overflows in stores for Halloween, and then immediately after they switch to Christmas gifts, decorations, etc... Christmas stuff is now sold for a full two months! "Smaller" holidays are those where people don't tend to spend as much money.
I find it most ironic that our "Thanksgiving Day" is now followed by "Black Friday," the biggest shopping day of the year, and it usually overtakes the holiday. Of course, the whole consumerism in the United States is a completely different discussion, haha! But one that might be interesting exploring in a video!
@michael.adamyk Hi Michael! Nice to hear from you too. ð
Yes, I see what you mean and that has sort of become the same way here. Buying things seems like the most important thing, not the actual holiday and what it stands for. I find that sad. It's not as extreme here, and some of us fight it. That's one of the reasons people over here are sceptical of "American" holidays (they usually think Halloween is American). I like finding my own relation to the holiday and don't bother so much with the rest. Being creative and having fun, learning about the history and feeling the bonds to previous generations is what I like. Just buying more stuff doesn't feel fulfilling, more like you have a giant hole to fill but don't understand what the actual root cause is. Sad for both people and the enviroment. Connecting deeper is key (inwards, to nature, seeing the bigger picture etc) Some contemplation is good, like with All Saint's day I guess. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the spooky season! ðððŊ
@GuinevereKnight hi there! Would love to hear more what fact in this video was incorrect according to you? So we can learn from it, if we made a mistake. Like you wrote not all Swedes celebrate it the same way (and we are aware of that) but we still think it is valuable to share how it can look like for some Swedes. And like you wrote this is a short introduction to Halloween / Alla helgons dag and there is a lot more to say about it :) We need a longer video to go deeper.
@@FunSwedish Hej! Toppen att ni vill bli bÃĪttre! Det ÃĪr inte bara i denna video det smyger sig in ett antal fel och missfÃķrstÃĨnd angÃĨende historia och etymologi, jag orkar inte ta diskussionen tyvÃĪrr. Det ÃĪr ganska basala faktafel som gÃĨr att googla, kolla pÃĨ Wikipedia eller SAOL innan videor publiceras. Som svensk ÃĪr det enkelt att se dem, men nÃĪr man ska lÃĪra ut till mÃĪnniskor som varken kan svenska eller ÃĪr hemma pÃĨ svensk kultur ÃĪr det bra att man inte utger sig fÃķr att vara expert nÃĪr det tyvÃĪrr inte ÃĪr fallet. Jag fÃķrstÃĨr att intentionen ÃĪr god men att lÃĪra ut ÃĪr ett (stort) ansvar. Lite bÃĪttre research skulle gÃķra era videor sÃĨ mycket mer trovÃĪrdiga och inte missvisande. (Jag har sett mÃĨnga av era videor pÃĨ andra reaction channels, sÃĨ det ÃĪr en samlad bedÃķmning av mÃĨnga basala mindre eller stÃķrre fel som tiltar era fÃķrklaringar i sÃĨ gott som alla videor jag sett.) I tider av problem med kÃĪllor, faktaglidningar, mÃĪnniskor som tror pÃĨ allt som sÃĪgs pÃĨ internet sÃĨ ÃĪr det bra att vara noggrann med fÃķrarbete och publiceringar. Ni kan sÃĪkert fÃĨ till detta! :)
@@FunSwedish Hej! Toppen att ni vill bli bÃĪttre! Det ÃĪr inte bara i denna video det smyger sig in ett antal fel och missfÃķrstÃĨnd angÃĨende historia och etymologi, jag orkar inte ta diskussionen tyvÃĪrr. Det ÃĪr ganska basala faktafel som gÃĨr att googla, kolla pÃĨ Wikipedia eller SAOL innan videor publiceras. Som svensk ÃĪr det rÃĪtt enkelt att upptÃĪcka dem, men nÃĪr man ska lÃĪra ut till mÃĪnniskor som varken kan svenska eller ÃĪr hemma pÃĨ svensk kultur ÃĪr det bra att man inte utger sig fÃķr att vara expert nÃĪr det tyvÃĪrr inte ÃĪr fallet. Jag fÃķrstÃĨr att intentionen ÃĪr god men att lÃĪra ut ÃĪr ett (stort) ansvar. Lite bÃĪttre research skulle gÃķra era videor sÃĨ mycket mer trovÃĪrdiga och inte missvisande. (Jag har sett mÃĨnga av era videor pÃĨ andra reaction channels, sÃĨ det ÃĪr en samlad bedÃķmning av mÃĨnga basala mindre eller stÃķrre fel som tiltar era fÃķrklaringar i sÃĨ gott som alla videor jag sett.) I tider av problem med kÃĪllor, faktaglidningar, mÃĪnniskor som tror pÃĨ allt som sÃĪgs pÃĨ internet sÃĨ ÃĪr det bra att vara noggrann med fÃķrarbete och publiceringar. Ni kan sÃĪkert fÃĨ till detta! :)
True that Halloween was never very big in the UK, and neither was All Saints day in the 20th Century. Lately due to TV & films from the USA, Halloween has become quite big. Halloween is mostly a Pagan tradition based around Samhain, where as All Saints day is Christian day. Halloween is the 31st October, an evening celebration, the Christians tried to steal the Pagan festival by making All Saints Day on the 1st November. Samhain is the beginning of Winter half of the year. All Saints Day (also known as All Hallows Day) was invented to replace the Pagan celebration and persuade the people to celebrate the Christian Saints. Samhain came long, long before the Christian celebrations and was very important to the peasantry hence the Church trying to purloin the festival.
I'm saying this all as a gode (priest) of the Norse Church. Something that unfortunately isn't mentioned is the "Alva" or blot of the Alvas. Which imho is the gods damned origin of Halloween. It's the great feast of the last harvest. Among us Norse (Norse is a term for followers of the ancient Nordic folkish religion.) it's celebrated this time of year. It's to celebrate all the hardships we've gone through throughout the year and it's a time to gather good memories to carry us through the winter darkness. It's kinda an antithesis to "ordinary" Halloween in that we celebrate life and try to gather good vibes to carry us through the winter instead of "getting our spook on" ð Ie, me and my family actually watch feel-good movies and eat all our favorite dishes throughout the weekend, in order to build up these good vibes to keep us happy through the winter.
@timbackman5915 that makes sense, and is very interesting! Are there many people in the Norse Church?