Christmas Blogging: The Spanish "Saint Innocents"

There are several Spanish traditions in Christmas time, but I’ld like to tell you about one in particular, for you to get your jokes ready in a week time.

On December, the 28th, Spanish people tend not to believe any weird news on TV and to watch their backs, because we celebrate the “Saint Innocents’ Day”, which is the equivalent of the “April’s Fool” or the French “Poisson d’Avril”.

In fact, the feast has Catholic origins on the remembrace of the children’s massacre of Bethlehem by Herod the Great, called the “Massacre of the Innocents”, because little children hadn’t had time to commit any sin.

It was during the Middle Age, that children started playing jokes and tricks on older people durinh this day and, even if the Catholic Church tried to put an end to these “inappropriate” games, it has finally lasted until these days.

So,if you spend your holidays in Spain, get ready to get paper “Inocentes” stuck in your backs or to hear fake news or “Gazapos” such as Martians’ Invasions of the Earth, even in the most serious TV channels…

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