10月31日西方的萬聖節,就像我國的中元節
萬聖夜起源於不列顛凱爾特人
(現在的蘇格蘭、愛爾蘭人)
在10月的最後一天,他們相信這是夏天的終結,
冬天的開始,是一年裡最重要的節日之一
這一天晚上惡鬼的力量最強大
也是最接近陽世間的時候
為恐怕被惡鬼抓走,
凱爾特人會戴上面具,裝扮成鬼魂,
混在鬼魂中讓他們認不出來,
小朋友也裝扮成小鬼,逐門逐戶敲鄰居的門,
大喊「Trick or Treat!」(不請客就搗蛋),
主人要出來分糖給小鬼安撫他們,
否則家裡會被搗亂不得安寧。
我並不主張盲目西化過西洋人的節日,
不過還是尊重人家的傳統,
一方面也當作好玩的活動,
大家藉機放鬆一下也不錯。
All Souls Night-Loreena McKennitt
Bonfires dot the rolling hillsides
Figures dance around and around
To drums that pulse out echoes of darkness
Movies to the pagan sound
Somewhere in a hidden memory
Images float before my eyes
Of fragrant nights of straw and of bonfires
And dancing till the next sunrise
I can see the lights in a distance
Trembling in the dark cloak of night
Candles and lanterns are dancing,
dancing A walts on All Souls Night
Figures of cornstalks bend in the shadows
Held up tall as the flames leap high
The green knight holds the holly bush
To mark where the old year passes by
Bonfires dot the rolling hillsides
Figures dance around and around
To drums that pulse out echoes of darkness
And moving toward the pagan sound
Standing on the bridge that crosses
The river that goes out to the sea
The wind is full of a thousand voices
They pass by the bridge and me
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