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burning a snowman

posted 19 years ago by bestvidiogamer-1
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okay wat is up with that what kinda catholic school makes u burn snowmen I don't hink God takes snowmen sacrifices It seems like they are in more of a cult..............well other than that I liked the movvie

[–] sirleucelot 19 years ago

Yeah, strikes me as a pagan practice more than a catholic one. Reminds me of a wicker man.

[–] PinkBunnySlippers 18 years ago

It kind of reminded me of what other schools do during homecoming, having a big bonfire of some sort.

Always reminds me of the middle ages, or possibly the time of when stonehenge was active, or even farther back when the ancient people paid tribute of a sort to whoever they worshipped.

Still though, whatever the occasion, any big fire always creeps me out, brings to mind ancient cavemen grunting and beating on their chests!

[–] houseofscorpio 18 years ago

Believe me there a lot of pagan practices in the Catholic religion (I am Catholic). That's how Emperor Constantine got them to convert. Only the most conservative Christian groups have eliminated that stuff.

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[–] GW1988 18 years ago

I'm a New Ager...when i read this in the book,i laughed...so silly...just kids playing...
As for burning snomen...i wouldn't have a clue what to say...

You got IT...and you can keep IT.
-Chico(Monkey Business).

[–] sea_monkey_junkie 17 years ago

Well... religion is a cult. It's just so big and has been around for so long that people don't even realize that they are in a cult.

[–] audierules 10 years ago

Just watched the movie and all I can say is what WTF was going on there.

[–] ravensdestiny_28 10 years ago

"The first spring snowman burning was held in March 1971 by the Unicorn Hunters, a former campus club. Traditionally it has been held on the first day of spring to bid good-bye to winter and welcome spring.

The burning takes its inspiration from the Rose Sunday Festival in Weinheim-an-der-Bergstrasse, Germany. In the festival, a parade passes through town to a central location, where the mayor makes a proposal to the town's children. If the children are good, study, obey their parents and work hard, he will order the (straw) snowman to be burned, and spring will officially arrive. After the children yell their approval and make their promise, the snowman is burned.

Some people hold that rising smoke rising from the fire is supposed to ward off blizzards and usher in spring-like weather. The Unicorn Hunters capitalized on this theory during the second or third year of the event. At that time, after the snowman was burned, a blizzard passed through the eastern Upper Peninsula and northern Lower Peninsula but missed Sault Ste. Marie."

[–] nsavage3-1 8 years ago

Thanks for that explanation. That scene with the burning snowman ritual was super-weird!

It make Catholic schools seem scary. The Catholics in general do a lot of un-biblical practices, in my opinion. But this snowman ritual is probably a bit of a stretch.