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I just want to say thank you to Italy NT for making me hate football.

I don’t know if this blog will go on semi-hiatus or be used for reblogging happy, totally football unrelated things. It’s funny how I started this blog soon after the last world cup and how I waited years to celebrate some sort of anniversary, but now i just feel so fool.

If you want to stick around I’m grateful. If not I understand. Anyway have a good life

#...#the end of an era #italy nt

Honestly I've been done being disappointed by Italy nt for quite a while. Every time we reach a new level of low. Here the only football that really counts anymore is the clubs one, so what's the point of having a nt anyaway? It's humiliating for the players and disheartning for the fans. If we're out of world cup, as we should because we don't deserve it, I'll put this blog on hiatus

#Italy nt #fuck off honestly

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Neymar via Instagram | 05.11.17

#cuties <3 #verratti #neymajr

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#<3

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Australia vs Brasil (13/06/2017)

#dies!#david luiz #so fluffy

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The story of Džekolarov (x)

A family of bats vampires! Happy Halloween! 🎃

#omg so pretty!#halloween

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Zlatan Ibrahimovic // Burgundy Moodboard

Since it's halloween, can you talk about some creepy italian stuff? I just now realised I never heard anything scary about Italy, except for ghost stories.

One word is enough: Trenitalia

Ok, so in Italy we don’t really celebrate Halloween, only recently we have adopted this holiday and mostly because it gives us a chance to party. The main holiday here is November 1st, All Saint’s Day (and we get to stay at home).

But many Italian people take this as a chance to celebrate “All Souls’ Day”, which falls on November 2nd and while it’s not a national holiday, it’s still a heartfelt holiday. Basically it’s a day dedicated to the memory of all those who have died and everyone in these two days goes around cemeteries to go and visit their dead relatives. This holiday is not limited to Italy, as it’s a Catholic-related occasion.

In Italy, there are tons of different local traditions connected to this holiday: in many places they leave sweets and cakes for the dead ones called “Dolci dei morti”, in Sicily they believe that the dead ones come out of their graves in the night between the 1st and the 2nd to leave sweets for the kids, called “Ossa dei morti” (the bones of the dead). In Treviso they eat a bread called “I morti vivi” (the living dead).

As for creepy Italian stories that anyone can look up:

The legend of Azzurrina (ghost story)

The soap-maker of Correggio (true story, near where I live btw)

The beasts of Satan (true story)

Giulia Tofana

Some ghost stories

Fontanelle cemetery in Naples

Anatomical machines, in Naples as well

Rome ghost stories

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I really really really feel the need to add and/or clarify something about this post. It’s just that every time, this time of the year, my southerner heart cries a little, because Halloween is NOT an adopted holiday.

With other names it always existed and was celebrated in Italy.

Ancient Romans, Etruscans, and other people leaving here all had their traditions to celebrate the deaths. Between VIII and X century the Church, unable to eradicate pagan traditions, moved the day of the Saints from May to November and also added the day of the Deads to justify those unholy celebrations.

Since then those traditions have been passed down through the centuries and have remained very much alive (especially, but not only) in southern Italy. Not so many years ago our grandparents made lanterns with turnips or yellow pumpkins, they left food for the dead and were given small treats (cakes, nuts, chestnuts, etc.) long before American "colonization" pushed people to rename it all Halloween.

Here in the South to dress like a ghost is nothing new, really. Neither is the concept of dead souls trepassing into the world of the living. The same goes for asking for a treat or carving pumpkins and we have many typical sweets which have something to do with death :D

#halloween #ognissanti #italy #OT