Bonfires ought not to be rained upon. It seems like it ought to be a Rule.
Aside from burning things, what should one expect to do on a Bonfire Night? I ask because the current ms has bonfires as part of a religious scenario, and I'd kind of like to know whose mythology I've borrowed. >:-)
Well, apart from the burning of the bonfire, there's also the burning of the effigy that takes us back to the 'Burning Man' symbolism, I suppose.
Then there's fireworks, of course, to sympbolise the taming of the hideous gunpowder. Not forgetting cinder toffee (or Bonfire toffee), jacket potatoes and all the stuff associated with cooking on a fire (don't mention hedgehogs in clay jackets, that's just upsetting).
The rumour is that Britain doesn't have much of a mythology any more, just superstition and folklore, so maybe Bonfire Night has less to do with mythology than with vindictiveness. Not sure. It seems a pretty good way to spend a November evening, I must admit. Rain permitting *g*
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Aside from burning things, what should one expect to do on a Bonfire Night? I ask because the current ms has bonfires as part of a religious scenario, and I'd kind of like to know whose mythology I've borrowed. >:-)
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Then there's fireworks, of course, to sympbolise the taming of the hideous gunpowder. Not forgetting cinder toffee (or Bonfire toffee), jacket potatoes and all the stuff associated with cooking on a fire (don't mention hedgehogs in clay jackets, that's just upsetting).
The rumour is that Britain doesn't have much of a mythology any more, just superstition and folklore, so maybe Bonfire Night has less to do with mythology than with vindictiveness. Not sure. It seems a pretty good way to spend a November evening, I must admit. Rain permitting *g*
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