"excess before Lent begins. Some of the most famous are the Carnival of Barranquilla, the Carnival of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the Carnival of Venice, Cologne Carnival, the New Orleans Mardi Gras, the Rio de Janeiro carnival, and the Trinidad and Tobago Carnival. The day immediately preceding Lent is variously called Mardi Gras (""Fat Tuesday""), Pancake Tuesday, or Shrove Tuesday. Sometimes, it is the peak of the pre-Lenten festival, while sometimes it is largely occupied with preparations for Lent. The observances vary from culture to culture, and even from town to town. Originally, in Lebanon and Syria, the last Thursday"
"on foot and the troops of the tyrant on carts, to remember the wars of the Middle Ages. In the most part of the Archdiocese of Milan, the Carnival lasts four more days, ending on the Saturday after Ash Wednesday, because of the Ambrosian Rite. ""Užgavėnės"" is a Lithuanian festival that takes place on Shrove Tuesday. Its name in English means ""the time before Lent"". The celebration corresponds to Carnival holiday traditions. ""Užgavėnės"" begins on the night before Ash Wednesday, when an effigy of winter (usually named Morė) is burnt. A major element symbolizes the defeat of winter in the"
"Pancake day) is the day in February or March immediately preceding Ash Wednesday (the first day of Lent), which is celebrated by consuming pancakes. This moveable feast is determined by Easter. The expression ""Shrove Tuesday"" comes from the word ""shrive"", meaning ""absolve"". Traditional Shrove Tuesday ""mob football"" games take place in a number of towns have maintained the tradition, including Alnwick in Northumberland (Scoring the Hales), Ashbourne in Derbyshire (called the Royal Shrovetide Football), Atherstone in Warwickshire (called simply the Atherstone Ball Game), St Columb Major in Cornwall (called Hurling the Silver Ball), and Sedgefield in County Durham. Shrove Tuesday"
"parish churches, both Protestant and Roman Catholic, a popular Shrove Tuesday tradition is the ringing of the church bells (on this day, the toll is known as the Shriving Bell) ""to call the faithful to confession before the solemn season of Lent"" and for people to ""begin frying their pancakes"". The word ""shrove"" is a form of the English word ""shrive"", which means to obtain absolution for one's sins by way of Confession and doing penance. Thus Shrove Tuesday gets its name from the custom for Christians to be ""shriven"" before the start of Lent. In the United Kingdom, Ireland"
"weekend before and especially on , the day before Shrove Tuesday, and sometimes also on Shrove Tuesday ( or ) itself in the suburbs of larger carnival cities. In German-speaking countries, there are essentially 2 distinct variations of Carnivals: the Rhenish Carnival in the west of Germany, centred on the cities of Cologne, Mainz and Düsseldorf, and the Alemannic or Swabian-Alemannic Fastnacht in Swabia (Southwestern Germany), Switzerland, Alsace and Vorarlberg (Western Austria). The Rhenish Carnival (, mainly in the states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate) is famous for celebrations such as parades and costume balls. Cologne Carnival is the largest"
"for one's sins by way of confession and doing penance. Thus Shrovetide gets its name from the shriving that English Christians were expected to do prior to receiving absolution immediately before Lent begins. Shrove Tuesday is the last day of ""shrovetide"", somewhat analogous to the ""Carnival"" tradition that developed separately in countries of Latin Europe. The terms ""Shrove Monday"" and ""Shrove Tuesday"" are no longer widely used in the United States or Canada outside of liturgical traditions, such as in the Lutheran, Anglican, and Roman Catholic Churches. The British name Collopy Monday is after the traditional dish of the day,"
"after the Quinquagesima and the day between Shrove Monday and Ash Wednesday. Because it is the last day before the Lenten fast, a tradition has developed of eating buns, called ""fastlagsbullar"", ""fettisdagsbullar"" (Fat Tuesday Buns) or ""semla"". The day is also called ""White Tuesday"" because the buns are made out of white flour. The day is called ""Mardi Gras"" in France, ""Carnaval"" or ""Vastenavond"" in the Netherlands, ""laskiainen""/""fastlagstisdagen"" in Finland, ""vastlapäev"" in Estonia, and ""Fastelavn"" in Denmark. In the UK it is known as Shrove Tuesday or Pancake Day. Syrian Catholics have celebrated the day as ""Drunkard's Thursday"" with dolmas"
"Shrovetide Shrovetide, also known as the Pre-Lenten Season, is the Christian period of preparation before the beginning of the liturgical season of Lent. Shrovetide starts on Septuagesima Sunday, includes Sexagesima Sunday, Quinquagesima Sunday (commonly called Shrove Sunday), as well as Shrove Monday, and culminates on Shrove Tuesday. One hallmark of Shrovetide is the merrymaking associated with Carnival. On the final day of the season, Shrove Tuesday, many traditional Christians, such as Anglicans, Lutherans, Methodists and Roman Catholics, ""make a special point of self-examination, of considering what wrongs they need to repent, and what amendments of life or areas of spiritual"
"to the Shriving Service. Eager to get to church, she ran out of her house still holding the frying pan complete with pancake, tossing it to prevent it from burning, and still wearing her apron and headscarf. Every Shrove Tuesday since 1950, the towns of Olney and Liberal, Kansas have competed in the International Pancake Race. Only local women may compete; they race, and their times are compared to determine the international winner. In Olney the main women's race is augmented by races for local schoolchildren and for men. The Rehab UK Parliamentary Pancake Race takes place every Shrove Tuesday,"
"tradition was taken to Hawaii, where Shrove Tuesday is known as Malasada Day, which dates back to the days of the sugar plantations of the 1800s, the resident Catholic Portuguese (mostly from Madeira and the Azores) workers used up butter and sugar prior to Lent by making large batches of ""malasadas"". In Denmark and Norway, the day is known as ""Fastelavn"" and is marked by eating ""fastelavnsboller"". Fastelavn is the name for Carnival in Denmark which is either the Sunday or Monday before Ash Wednesday. Fastelavn developed from the Roman Catholic tradition of celebrating in the days before Lent, but"
"year (Maslenitsa). In London, the Rehab Parliamentary Pancake Race takes place every Shrove Tuesday, with teams from the British lower house (the House of Commons), the upper house (the House of Lords), and the Fourth Estate, contending for the title of Parliamentary Pancake Race Champions. The fun relay race is to raise awareness of Rehab, which provides a range of health and social care, training, education, and employment services in the UK for disabled people and others who are marginalised. Shrove Tuesday is exactly 47 days before Easter Sunday, a moveable feast based on the cycles of the moon. The"
"is called (Fat Thursday). In some areas of the United States, with large Polish communities, such as Chicago, Buffalo and Michigan, Tłusty Czwartek is celebrated with or eating contests, music and other Polish food. It may be held on Shrove Tuesday or in the days immediately preceding it. In Slovenia, Kurentovanje is also the biggest and best known carnival. There are several more local carnivals usually referred to as Laufarija. In Hungary, and the Hungarian-speaking territories, it is called (literally the Tuesday leaving the meat) and is celebrated by fancy dress and visiting neighbours. Pancakes are associated with the day"
"on the following Tuesday (Shrove Tuesday or Mardi Gras). These traditional festivities have been inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity of the UNESCO in 2009. Locals explain the Carnival with two related but different legends. According to the most popular legend, during the Ottoman times of the territory, people from Mohács fled the town, and started living in the nearby swamps and woods to avoid Ottoman (Turkish) troops. One night, while they were sitting and talking around the fire, an old Šokac man appeared suddenly from nowhere, and said to them: ""Don't be afraid,"
"midnight before Ash Wednesday. In earlier times, parades were held on New Year's Day. Other cities famous for Mardi Gras celebrations include Rio de Janeiro; Barranquilla, Colombia; George Town, Cayman Islands; Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago; Quebec City, Quebec, Canada; and Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico. Carnival is an important celebration in Anglican and Catholic European nations. In the United Kingdom and Ireland, the week before Ash Wednesday is called ""Shrovetide"", ending on Shrove Tuesday. It has its popular celebratory aspects, as well. Pancakes are a traditional food. Pancakes and related fried breads or pastries made with sugar, fat, and eggs"
"Indies, it occurs between the Sunday of Epiphany and Ash Wednesday; this dates back to the arrival of French colonists in the islands. The earliest written record of Carnival in Germany was in 1296 in Speyer. The first worldwide Carnival parade took place in Cologne in 1823. The most active Carnival week begins on the Thursday before Ash Wednesday, with parades during the weekend, and finishes the night before Ash Wednesday, with the main festivities occurring around ""Rosenmontag"" (Rose Monday). This time is also called the ""Fifth Season"". Shrove Tuesday, called ""Fastnacht"" or ""Veilchendienstag"", is celebrated in some cities. Parties"
"Eis-zwei-Geissebei Eis-zwei-Geissebei is a Carnival festival held in Rapperswil (Switzerland) on Shrove Tuesday. Its origin may go back to the siege and destruction of the city of Rapperswil at St. Matthew in 1350 by Rudolf Brun, first mayor of the city of Zürich. At that time, compassionate citizens served food to hungry children through the windows of their houses, to which the current practice recalls. After the traditional ""Herrenessen"" (dinner of the council members) in the Rathaus Rapperswil and cabaret program with distinguished guests, hundreds of children gather in the main square on Shrove Tuesday. At exactly 15:15 the windows"
"is the site of the traditional ""throwing of the onions"". A ""Prince Carnival"" is elected, who is allowed to ""rule"" the city for three days. A big parade crosses the city on Sunday, with about 70 groups of costumed volunteers and parade cars. Carnival Tuesday or Shrove Tuesday (by tradition, the day before Ash Wednesday), is known as the day of the 'Voil Jeannetten' (literally: ""the Dirty Jennies""), i.e., men dressed as women. The festivities traditionally end with the ""Burning of the Doll"", happening on Tuesday evening. Description: ""A rectangle of proportions 2:3, with three vertical bands of red, white"
"customs have made Tirnavos famous. Shrove Monday is a day of merry moral freedom or laxity of morals during which the rules of decent behavior are temporarily violated. The use of sexual and love symbols are combined with the traditional folk manifestations. Strictly speaking, the “bourani” is a folk fare but in essence, it is a phallus festival that symbolizes the reproduction and fertility. First, the inhabitants of the town go to the country church of Prophet Elijah in a free wide area, in the north of the town. Each group spread a table with various dishes on the ground"
"between Candlemas and Shrove Tuesday, other activities are of shorter duration as well. Consequently, this strongly influences the entire program and development of the event each year. The idea of an organized carnival event in Ptuj came about in the 1950s, when the carnival costumes, accompanied by a band, spontaneously formed processions on Shrove Tuesday. This event continued to grow, thanks in no small part to Ptuj cultural historian Drago Hasl (1900–1976). Hasl, an indefatigable organiser of Kurentovanje from its beginnings until the 1970s, was strongly convinced that this event could help prevent what he saw as the extremely rapid"
"sited in the Kurtuluş district. In 2010, the festival was revived. Many parts of Belgium celebrate Carnival, typically with costume parades, partying and fireworks. These areas include Aalst, Binche, Eupen, Halle, Heist, Kelmis, Maaseik, Malmedy, and Stavelot. The Carnival of Binche dates at least to the 14th century. Parades are held over the three days before Lent; the most important participants are the Gilles, who wear traditional costumes on Shrove Tuesday and throw blood oranges to the crowd. In 2003, the Carnival of Binche was recognised as one of the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity. The"
"it is distinctly reflected in the songs. Reference is made to horses, steeds, riding through fields. There are also some ballad-like songs, such as the one about the young soldier who fell off his steed. Another important Shrove Tuesday ritual was the parade of masqueraders. Special songs, such as beggar songs, accompany the parade. Most Shrovetide songs are recitative-like and their melodies contain the most archaic ritual melodic characteristics. During the Easter celebration and spring in general, the tradition of swinging on swings was quite widespread (in some places during Shrove Tuesday as well). Swinging has magical powers, which induces"
"weeks of the Pre-Lenten Season break are: Shrovetide Shrovetide, also known as the Pre-Lenten Season, is the Christian period of preparation before the beginning of the liturgical season of Lent. Shrovetide starts on Septuagesima Sunday, includes Sexagesima Sunday, Quinquagesima Sunday (commonly called Shrove Sunday), as well as Shrove Monday, and culminates on Shrove Tuesday. One hallmark of Shrovetide is the merrymaking associated with Carnival. On the final day of the season, Shrove Tuesday, many traditional Christians, such as Anglicans, Lutherans, Methodists and Roman Catholics, ""make a special point of self-examination, of considering what wrongs they need to repent, and what"
"(Fat Tuesday). It's the main day of Carnival along with the Thursday before, called Giovedí Grasso (Fat Thursday), which ratifies the start of the celebrations. The most famous Carnivals in Italy are in Venice, Viareggio and Ivrea. Ivrea has the characteristic ""Battle of Oranges"" that finds its roots in medieval times. The Italian version of the festival is spelled Carnevale. The Netherlands also has a festival similar to Mardi Gras. It's called Carnaval and is similar to the Venice Carnival. The origin of the word Carnaval is ""carnem levare"" which means ""to take away meat"" in Latin, or ""carne vale"","
"Fettisdagen Fettisdagen (""The Fat Tuesday"") is the Swedish name for the Tuesday after the Quinquagesima and the day between Shrove Monday and Ash Wednesday. Because it is the last day before the Lenten fast, a tradition has developed of eating buns, called ""fastlagsbullar"", ""fettisdagsbullar"" (Fat Tuesday Buns) or ""semla"". The day is also called ""White Tuesday"" because the buns are made out of white flour. The day is called ""Mardi Gras"" in France, ""Carnaval"" or ""Vastenavond"" in the Netherlands, ""Laskiainen"" (or ""fastlagstisdagen"") in Finland, ""vastlapäev"" in Estonia, and ""Fastelavn"" in Denmark. In the UK it is known as Shrove Tuesday"
"to have a meal of split-pea soup with ham, and slide down either snow-covered or iced tracks, often on toboggans. Laskiainen Laskiainen is a celebration with Finnish origins is associated with Shrove Tuesday and is often described as a ""mid-winter sliding festival."" One of the places the festival is celebrated is the community of Palo, Minnesota (between Aurora and Makinen, on the shores of Loon Lake). Palo is the home of one of the longest continuously-held Finnish–American festivals in the United States. Many smaller groups and Finnish–American clubs have various laskiainen celebrations, but the large one which developed and became"
"or marry a carpenter. In the United Kingdom, as part of community celebration, many towns held traditional Shrove Tuesday ""mob football"" games, some dating as far back as the 17th century. The practice mostly died out in the 19th century after the passing of the Highway Act 1835 which banned playing football on public highways. A number of towns have maintained the tradition, including Alnwick in Northumberland (Scoring the Hales), Ashbourne in Derbyshire (called the Royal Shrovetide Football), Atherstone in Warwickshire (called simply the Atherstone Ball Game), St Columb Major in Cornwall (called Hurling the Silver Ball), and Sedgefield in"
"Fastelavn Fastelavn is the name for Carnival in the Northern European, and historically Lutheran, nations of Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Greenland, Estonia, Latvia and the Faroe Islands. It is celebrated on either the Sunday or Monday before Ash Wednesday. Fastelavn is related to Roman Catholic tradition of Carnival in the days before Lent, but after Denmark became a Protestant nation, the festival adopted certain distinctives. The holiday occurs the week before the Christian penitential season of Lent, culminating on Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. The Swedish counterpart is Fettisdagen, the Icelandic is Öskudagur, and"
"mixolydian or aeolian tetrachords. Shrove Tuesday songs are quite unique. They depict the most important moments of the Shrovetide ritual: the battle of Spring with a Winter unwilling to yield, boisterous banquets, abundant and satiated Nature in anticipation of an abundant year. Movement, such as riding sleighs through the fields, often accompanies them to evoke a good harvest. The songs are usually performed in a unique ""shouting"" singing style. Shrovetide songs have survived only in the eastern part of Lithuania, in the regions of Švenčionys, Adutiškis and environs. Since riding to and fro was such an important Shrove Tuesday ritual,"
"Carnival of Aalst, celebrated during the three days preceding Ash Wednesday, received the same recognition in 2010. The Carnival of Malmedy is locally called ""Cwarmê"". Even if Malmedy is located in the east Belgium, near the German-speaking area, the ""Cwarmê"" is a pure Walloon and Latin carnival. The celebration takes place during the four days before Shrove Tuesday. The ""Cwarmê"" Sunday is the most important and insteresting to see. All the old traditional costumes parade in the street. The ""Cwarmê"" is a ""street carnival"" and is not only a parade. People who are disguised pass through the crowd and perform"
"slaves from participating. Defying the ban, the slaves practiced carnival in clandestine ways, seeing it as a way to regain some freedom, to commemorate African fertility, and to deride the settlers. In the present day, metropolitan, Brazilian and Chinese communities take part in the event. Its occurrence varies, prescribed by the religious calendar and taking place between the Epiphany in early January, and Ash Wednesday, which marks the beginning of Lent. Carnival ends on Shrovetide. There are several traditional costumes in the French Guiana carnival, representing various figures. King Vaval is a mythical figure who serves as carnival king. He"
"Carnival Carnival (see other spellings and names) is a Western Christian and Greek Orthodox festive season that occurs before the liturgical season of Lent. The main events typically occur during February or early March, during the period historically known as Shrovetide (or Pre-Lent). Carnival typically involves public celebrations, including events such as parades, public street parties and other entertainments, combining some elements of a circus. Elaborate costumes and masks allow people to set aside their everyday individuality and experience a heightened sense of social unity. Participants often indulge in excessive consumption of alcohol, meat, and other foods that will be"
"Laskiainen Laskiainen is a celebration with Finnish origins is associated with Shrove Tuesday and is often described as a ""mid-winter sliding festival."" One of the places the festival is celebrated is the community of Palo, Minnesota (between Aurora and Makinen, on the shores of Loon Lake). Palo is the home of one of the longest continuously-held Finnish–American festivals in the United States. Many smaller groups and Finnish–American clubs have various laskiainen celebrations, but the large one which developed and became more organized in Palo in the 1930s is notable for both size and longevity. In North America, it is traditional"
"the head off. Sometimes a live hare was substituted. It is still practiced today, using a dead goose, in parts of Belgium and in Grevenbicht in the Netherlands as part of Shrove Tuesday and in some towns in Germany as part of the Shrove Monday celebrations. It is referred to as ""Ganstrekken"" in the Netherlands, ""Gansrijden"" in Belgium and ""Gänsereiten"" in Germany using a dead goose that has been humanely killed by a veterinarian. In El Carpio de Tajo goose pulling is practised on every July 25th to celebrate the liberation (Reconquista) from the Arabs in 1141. Later, during the"