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Halloween, a Basque tradition: this is how they celebrated the "Night of the Souls" in Euskadi Different investigations collect testimonies about the tradition of emptying and decorating pumpkins to scare passers-by in the Basque Country. The custom was maintained at least until the 1960s. Poster about the 'Arimen gaua' or 'Night of the Souls' placed in Laukiz, a small municipality in Bizkaia. GIVES. Poster about the "Arimen gaua" or "Night of the souls" placed in Laukiz, a small municipality in Bizkaia. GIVES. BILBAO11/01/2019 11:25DANILO ALBIN @danialri Gau baltza means “black night”. Arimen gaua translates as "night of the souls". Both terms in Basque also rhyme with Halloween, or at least with a Basque tradition of commemorating the eve of All Saints' Day that comes, temporarily speaking, from afar. According to different testimonies and anthropological research, the celebration of October 31 has Basque origins. In the Basque Country, without calling it that, they had been organizing Halloween for several decades. “That was already done in my town. The boys, at night, hollowed out gourds, made holes for their eyes and noses, put a lighted candle in, and when the women came down from the rosary they were put in a narrow alley," said Karmele Esnal, a native of the Gipuzkoan town of Orio, within the framework of a work carried out by Ahotsak.eus, the program for the compilation and dissemination of the oral and dialectal heritage of the Basque Country promoted by the Badihardugu association. The anthropologists Jaime Altuna and Josu Ozaita turned this topic into an anthropological work that took the form of a book, entitled “Itzalitako kalabazen berpiztea” (“The resurrection of the extinguished pumpkins”, published by the Eibar city council and the Basque Summer University). There, precisely, the ties between the Basque Country and this celebration stand out. “Before the voices of American Halloween reached our ears, on dark autumn afternoons the souls of pumpkins lit up the corners of the Basque people”, they maintain. Altuna points out to Público that this tradition "was widespread in the Basque Country." "We have discovered that until the sixties it was very common in the Basque Country for boys and girls to empty pumpkins, put them on dark paths with candles and scare people," says this researcher. "Ancient Roots" “And now they talk about Halloween… That? I have seen that in my town, in the fall, in November”, pointed out Karmele Esnal in the recording made by Ahotsak. Precisely, Altuna remarked that the festivities around death that are celebrated at the end of October and beginning of November have very ancient roots. In this sense, he emphasizes that they are related "to the end of summer and the beginning of winter." “We would go to the orchard and steal a large pumpkin from the villager. We emptied it, some holes as eyes, mouth and nose, and putting a lighted candle inside… Yes, I have done these things”, added Jesús Gangoiti, a native of Bermeo, in the work produced by Ahotsak. The night of October 31, the same night that is now known as Halloween, never sounded foreign to him.
Distintas investigaciones recogen testimonios sobre la tradición de vaciar y decorar calabazas para asustar a los transeúntes en el País Vasco.
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