Long live Halloween, down with the governor of Campania who tries to cover up the disaster of his health
The governor of Campania, the former member of the Italian Communist Party Vincenzo De Luca, in one of his thunderous and delirious anti- Covid communiques defined Halloween as "an American monument to imbecility". It sounds strange enough that in order to hit a virus considered as terrible as the new 'plague', Covid-19 , you get to insult a party that draws inspiration from a British tradition that follows all the similar traditions of the West and that has taken hold among kids thanks also to horror movies and rock music. Strange because in reality the Halloween tradition is in a certain sense also remembered in works of spirits and ghosts of Edwardian memory (incidentally, governor, we are talking about Edoardo De Filippo, and his wonderful plays, such as "These ghosts" ). Strange also because Halloween celebrates All Hollows Eve, the festival where the dead are remembered, but also the saints and martyrs, exactly as has been done in De Luca's Campania for many centuries and in those same days.
One would think that behind the strategy of this macchiettistico character, and more suited to a Dandini program than to govern a region, there is an attack aimed at Western values, the son of that communism that lost the Cold War and today is back more vindictive than ever and sees in the pandemic (in riding the pandemic) a means with which to settle accounts. So much so that for that evening, the Crozza-De Luca bellowed his fatal wrath with lapidary (and therefore comical) statements: “It will be a curfew, not even mobility will be allowed. We will probably be able to decide to block mobility after midnight even before that weekend ”. How this is justified with the spread of the virus remains a mystery for medical science, now hostage to a predatory and partisan, superstitious and tyrannical politics. These are words that rather underline a desire for revenge, for revenge, also to cover the huge damage done to a health service (that bell), which the governor during his entire mandate was not able to repair and now, like the Conte government teaches, he does his utmost to turn the omelette. Your fault if the virus circulates and not our hospitals which either have not been adapted to the danger or do not have the necessary doctors and facilities (again for the beloved cuts to health care on which you can read endless articles everywhere in the press).
Since I am not a journalist but a writer, I will not be here to list the problems of medical malpractice in Campania not managed or badly managed by De Luca. I'll just tell him about the origin of Halloween and the magic of Anglo-Saxon (and pagan) folkloric and mystery traditions. The festival derives, it is said, from the Gaelic and Irish traditions linked to the period of Samhain, the end of the harvest season, where one entered the dark semester, and where the veil that divides the worlds (of the visible and the invisible) it was thinner. And for this reason, the spirits (called elves or fairies by the North Europeans) could be perceivable if not visible. One of the most famous spirits that roamed the worlds was Will 'O the Wisp , or from the Latin Ignis Fatuus , who, with his lantern, amused himself to confuse the traveler who passed by the deserted fields at night (a brilliance named for this Jack 'O The Lantern ). The poor victim followed the light and remained a victim of its spell, or vanished and found himself in other worlds (many ufologists have argued that the first alien abductions would be attributable to the story of these phenomena). Many talk about Will O-The-Wisp in the world of culture and art (from the Pet Shop Boys in their new single to Shakespeare, which we imagine the governor has read in the original language, which in "King Lear" speaks of a " walking fire " ; curious intellectual gloss, there is a small volume entitled " Will-O-The-Wisp, or The Elusive Shakespeare " by George Hookham, who claims that the works of the great English poet of Strattford Upon Avon, were actually written by Francis Bacon … oh well, literary whims, useless for the narration of the sheriff governors).
To survive the winter, the Will-O-The-Wisp had to be propitiated, it was necessary to address them with prayers, invocations, songs and dances and, in the modern tradition, this celebration and this invocation continue in the Christian world with masses and processions and prayers, while among the boys, fully incorporated in the Magical Mystery Tour of pop culture and worldliness, it means going around doing “Trick or Treat” at the doors of the neighbors; they offer treats (to the spirits) or accept that Will will spite us. Better, definitely, that you accept the sweet. As, moreover, Freddy Kruger teaches that Halloween is the symbol or as Ozzy Osbourne remembers, the disturbing rock star who is a bit the musical symbol of the All Hollows Eve party (among other things, the listening advice for the night of October 31 is the left "Let Me Hear You Scream" , a title that is a whole program).
In short, the moral of this fable is that we undoubtedly take part in Halloween and for those who, like the old hateful communists, want to prevent or even abolish it, we recommend taking off, at least for that evening, the surgical mask and wearing a horror mask; makes you much more beautiful.
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