Is this even a real tradition?
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 1:02 am
My parents used to make my brother and I hide under blankets all day. Then we'd "re-emerge" from the blankets when it was time for the candles. This was when we were quite young. When we got old to start attending school, the other kids didn't know what we were talking about. Of course hardly anyone else even celebrated Re-Emergence Day, so it's not like we had a pool of cultural experts to consult. And eventually we stopped celebrating altogether (family drama that I won't go into here) and the blanket tradition fell by the wayside.
It was only MUCH later that I started to suspect our parents had invented the whole thing to keep us occupied. So we wouldn't bother them when they were setting up the decorations.
It didn't work that well though. We'd still walk around the house while we were "hiding" under the blankets. One year, my brother even cut eye-holes into his blanket, which happened to be a quilt, which our great grandmother had made. Our parents weren't thrilled about that!
But I've never met anyone else who practiced this tradition. I can't find anything like it online, so I'm leaning toward it being a fake tradition?
It was only MUCH later that I started to suspect our parents had invented the whole thing to keep us occupied. So we wouldn't bother them when they were setting up the decorations.
It didn't work that well though. We'd still walk around the house while we were "hiding" under the blankets. One year, my brother even cut eye-holes into his blanket, which happened to be a quilt, which our great grandmother had made. Our parents weren't thrilled about that!
But I've never met anyone else who practiced this tradition. I can't find anything like it online, so I'm leaning toward it being a fake tradition?