Burn Bay Burn
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There is one place I would like to visit before I die. Lewes, England.
I hear Lewes is a dark grey sad town in the south of England that characterizes by little else than being just another industrial ugly little shit hole, but with a good brewerey. (Lewes is also the only place in Britain were they are allowed to have their own independant currency, the Lewes Pound).
Once a year, on November 5th, the people of Lewes engage in the weirdest of celebrations. – A celebration that, if it weren’t because of its religious root, I would be there every year. So, what is it that people of Lewes do every November 5th?
They Burn the Pope.
Or to be clearer, an effigy of the Pope. People who have been there tell me that it is a once in a lifetime experience. Once in a lifetime, because to have 20,000 drunken Brits with torches in one place may be the last thing you see before being transferred to the local morgue. The origin to this celebration dates back to the days of a man called Guy Fawkes, whose real name was Guido, but that didn´t sound too professional, so he changed it to Guy. Mr. Fawkes did not have a happy ending. Depends on who you read, he was burned at the stake or hanged. But the matter of fact is that he was one an imbecile who tried to fight another bunch of imbeciles, so whatever the out come, an imbecile had to die. The kind of stories I like!!
The story goes that the British king at the time (1600s´) had a crush on Spanish royal Hottie (Catherine of Aragon) and she wanted to turn Britain back to Catholicism and rescue the island from hundreds of years of protestant faith. Their daughter, Mary I, also known as Bloody Mary achieved the task and transformed Britain into a Roman Catholic Nation. Only to be restored back to Protestantism by her half sister Elizabeth I, When this was about to happen is when Mr. Fawkes decided to blow the shit out of the British Parliament and, of course he and his accomplises were caught red-handed and immediately...
I hear Lewes is a dark grey sad town in the south of England that characterizes by little else than being just another industrial ugly little shit hole, but with a good brewerey. (Lewes is also the only place in Britain were they are allowed to have their own independant currency, the Lewes Pound).
Once a year, on November 5th, the people of Lewes engage in the weirdest of celebrations. – A celebration that, if it weren’t because of its religious root, I would be there every year. So, what is it that people of Lewes do every November 5th?
They Burn the Pope.
Or to be clearer, an effigy of the Pope. People who have been there tell me that it is a once in a lifetime experience. Once in a lifetime, because to have 20,000 drunken Brits with torches in one place may be the last thing you see before being transferred to the local morgue. The origin to this celebration dates back to the days of a man called Guy Fawkes, whose real name was Guido, but that didn´t sound too professional, so he changed it to Guy. Mr. Fawkes did not have a happy ending. Depends on who you read, he was burned at the stake or hanged. But the matter of fact is that he was one an imbecile who tried to fight another bunch of imbeciles, so whatever the out come, an imbecile had to die. The kind of stories I like!!
The story goes that the British king at the time (1600s´) had a crush on Spanish royal Hottie (Catherine of Aragon) and she wanted to turn Britain back to Catholicism and rescue the island from hundreds of years of protestant faith. Their daughter, Mary I, also known as Bloody Mary achieved the task and transformed Britain into a Roman Catholic Nation. Only to be restored back to Protestantism by her half sister Elizabeth I, When this was about to happen is when Mr. Fawkes decided to blow the shit out of the British Parliament and, of course he and his accomplises were caught red-handed and immediately...