Bonfire Night (or Guy Fawkes Night) is the name of an
annual celebration characterized by bonfires and fireworks in the United
Kingdom and some Commonwealth countries. For 400 years, bonfires have burned on
November 5th.
Bonfire Night is associated with the tradition of
celebrating the failure of Guy Fawkes’ actions on November 5th.
Nowadays, the celebration is just a night of revelry with a bonfire and
fireworks. However, celebrations include making a dummy of Guy Fawkes, called
“the Guy”; some children keep up an old tradition of walking in the streets,
carrying “the Guy” and beg passersby for “a penny for the Guy”; then they use
the money to buy fireworks for the evening festivities.
There are many food items that people eat this day:
Toffee apples, treacle toffee, black peas and jacket potatoes.
Information retrieved from: http://www.bonfirenight.net/bonfire.php
and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonfire_Night
on October 27th 2016
Image retrieved from: http://www.michellehenry.fr/bonfire.htm
on October 31st, 2016
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