chronicling the comings and goings of a family separated by oceans, corn fields, white winters and time ...
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Pot Throwing Old Corfu Town
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chronicling the comings and goings of a family separated by oceans, corn fields, white winters and time ...
3 comments:
Oooh . . . I love that! Local color. Did you know about it or fall upon it?
We knew ahead of time that this was going to happened. We were also warned to stay under something, which we did.
The origins of this custom are not known. I lived on Kapodistriou for four years and my children loved chucking the pots out of the windows. However, as I said the origins are unknown but I have certainly never heard that the noise scares Satan away!!! I think it is either far more Pagan and to do with the beginning of Spring and getting rid of old things or even religious, showing anger at Judas Iscariot. The second being the most likely to me as Easter is the time that the Judas trees flower all over the island and their purple blossoms are believed to represent Judas Iscariot blushing in shame at his betrayal of Christ.
Where did the idea of the noise scaring Satan come from???
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