#Noson Ddrygioni

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30 octobre : la Mischief Night, nuit de chahut aux États-Unis

Ce soir dans le monde anglo-saxon, principalement aux États-Unis, c’est la Mischief Night (la nuit des méfaits), propice aux farces d’enfants et d’adolescents. Appelée aussi Devil’s Night (la nuit du diable), elle occasionne souvent des violents dérapages. Mais, le plus souvent, le chahut consiste à lancer des œufs sur les voitures ou de la farine sur les passants ou encore de décorer arbres et jardins avec du papier toilette… Les épiceries locales refusent souvent de vendre des œufs aux enfants et aux adolescents au moment d'Halloween pour cette raison. 

Aux États-Unis, la tradition de la Mischief Night est liée à Halloween, les journaux américains ont commencé à en parler dans les années 1930 et 1940. On dit que la coutume serait née de la Grande Dépression – le mardi noir (le 29 octobre 1929) ayant eu lieu juste avant Halloween – et que la menace de guerre aurait encouragé à la fois la tendance au vandalisme et le désir d'une tradition moins contrôlée que la fête du 31 octobre. C’est à Detroit, au début des années 1980, que les choses ont pris une tournure vraiment violente. En 1984, il y a eu plus de 800 incendies déclarés au cours des trois jours précédant Halloween et, en 1986, un couvre-feu a été imposé à toute personne de moins de 18 ans. À la fin des années 1980, la ville a commencé à recruter des bénévoles pour aider à prévenir les incendies d'Halloween. À la Nouvelle-Orléans, où la tradition carnavalesque est séculaire, on mélange également réjouissances et violence aveugle, les défilés Mischief Night font intervenir des chars et des costumes thématiques. Les participants s’adonnent volontiers au vandalisme et à des incendies ciblés. 

En Ontario, la soirée du 30 octobre est appelée Cabbage Night (Nuit de Chou) faisait référence à la coutume de piller les jardins locaux à la recherche des restes de choux pourris et de les jeter pour semer le désordre dans le quartier. Dans certaines régions des États-Unis, également communément connue sous le nom de Mat night (Nuit du chou). Au Québec, dans les quartiers anglophones, s’est développée une tradition de vol de paillassons lors de la Nuit du Diable.

Le Royaume-Uni, connaît une tradition semblable, mais généralement, le 4 novembre, veille du Guy Fawkes Day, même si le 30 octobre n’est pas oublié, notamment dans la région de Liverpool où la police est sur les dents, dans certains quartiers, ce jour-là. Au Pays de Galles, la nuit des méfaits est appelée Noson Ddrygioni et en Écosse, Oidhche nan Cleas.

Un article de l'Almanach international des éditions BiblioMonde

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What is the night before Halloween called in England?

Mischief Night

In the United Kingdom

In some parts of the country, "Mischief Night" takes place on October 30, the eve of Halloween. The separation of Halloween tricks from the treats seems to have only developed in certain areas, often appearing in one region but not in neighboring regions.

Mischief Night is known in Yorkshire as "Mischievous Night" or the shorthand "'Chievous Night" "Miggy Night," "Tick-Tack Night," "Corn Night," "Trick Night" or "Micky Night" and is celebrated in North England on November 4 the day before Bonfire Night. In parts of Yorkshire, it is extremely popular with 13-year-olds as they think it is some kind of "coming of age ceremony."

In and around the city of Liverpool, Mischief Night is known locally as "Mizzy Night"; hot spots were dealt with by Merseyside Police in 2015.

He is known in Welsh as Noson Ddrygioni and in Scottish Gaelic as Oidhche nan Cleas.

Contemporary practice

In the USA

Mischief Night is widely recognized as a phenomenon from New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.

Mischief Night tends to include popular tricks such as courtyards and toilet paper buildings, cars, people and houses bombed with powder and vehicles, people and houses, using soap to write on windows, "pitchfork" courses, set off fireworks, and smash pumpkins and pumpkins. '-lanterns. Local grocery stores often refuse to sell eggs to children and teens around Halloween time for this reason. Sometimes the damage can worsen to include spray painting buildings and houses. Less destructive is the prank is known as "Knock, Knock, Ginger."

In New Orleans in recent years, Mischief Night has included a series of unruly parade-like riots. According to attendees, the Mischief Night "krewes" are part of New Orleans Carnival's centuries-old tradition of "walking parades," which take place primarily in the run-up to Mardi Gras. Blending festivities and indiscriminate violence, the Mischief Night parades involve themed floats and costumes and targeted vandalism and fires. The targets of vandalism, attacks, and arson included police, innocent bystanders, and property. [citation required]

When asked in a 2017 interview how Mischief Night in New Orleans fits into the context of carnival, one parade replied, "Our carnival traditions are the ones that want to 'turn the world upside down." After a parade through the city center in 2016, this saw bonfires in the street, police cars hit with paint, and a now-removed white supremacist monument chipped with a hammer, another participant wrote:

There is no longer a happy medium, which was seized for luxury condos. The choice is difficult: either we collectively build a more combative spiritual practice or complicate ourselves by ceding our ritual spaces of encounter to the oppressors.

In parts of Queens, New York, Cabbage Night has included throwing rotten fruit at neighbors, cars, and buses. Children and teens fill eggs with the Neet and Nair epilator and throw them at unsuspecting people. In the mid-1980s, garbage was set on fire, and cemeteries were set on fire. In Camden, New Jersey, Mischief Night escalated to the point that in the 1990s, there was widespread arson, with more than 130 arson attacks on the night of October 30, 1991.

Word of Mischief Night began to appear in American newspapers around the 1930s and 1940s, which reported that those who celebrated wanted to distance the healthy night of stuff or treats from the chaotic night of havoc around town. Some also believed that the stress of the Great Depression made people act out, which is what made Mischief night erupt around this time.