Guy Fawkes Day / Guy Fawkes Night, also known as Bonfire Night and Fireworks Night

Guy Fawkes Day, also called Bonfire Night, British observance, celebrated on November 5, commemorating the failure of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605.

 

 

Learn how the failed Gunpowder Plot to blow up England's Houses of Parliament sparked Guy Fawkes Day

 

 

The Gunpowder Plot conspirators [kənspírətər] , led by Robert Catesby, were zealous Roman Catholics enraged at King James I for refusing to grant greater religious tolerance to Catholics. They planned to blow up the Houses of Parliament (Palace of Westminster) during the state opening of Parliament, intending to kill the king and members of Parliament in order to clear the way to reestablishing Catholic rule in England.

 

The plan failed when the conspirators were betrayed. One of them, Guy Fawkes, was taken into custody the evening before the attack, in the cellar where the explosives to be used were stashed. The other conspirators were all either killed resisting capture or—like Fawkes—tried, convicted, and executed. In the aftermath, Parliament declared November 5 a national day of thanksgiving, and the first celebration of it took place in 1606.

Guy Fawkes effigy

 

Today Guy Fawkes Day is celebrated in the United Kingdom, and in a number of countries that were formerly part of the British Empire, with parades, fireworks, bonfires, and food. Straw effigies of Fawkes are tossed on the bonfire, as are—in more recent years in some places—those of contemporary political figures. Traditionally, children carried these effigies, called “Guys,” through the streets in the days leading up to Guy Fawkes Day and asked passersby for “a penny for the guy,” often reciting rhymes associated with the occasion, the best known of which dates from the 18th century:

 

Fireworks, a major component of most Guy Fawkes Day celebrations, represent the explosives that were never used by the plotters. Guards perform an annual search of the Parliament building to check for potential arsonists, although it is more ceremonial than serious. Lewes, in southeastern England, is the site of a celebration of Guy Fawkes Day that has a distinctly local flavour, involving six bonfire societies whose memberships are grounded in family history stretching back for generations.

 

 

Guy Fawkes Night, also known as Guy Fawkes Day, Bonfire Night and Fireworks Night, is an annual commemoration observed on 5 November, primarily in Great Britain, involving bonfires and fireworks displays. Its history begins with the events of 5 November 1605 O.S., when Guy Fawkes, a member of the Gunpowder Plot, was arrested while guarding explosives the plotters had placed beneath the House of Lords. The Catholic plotters had intended to assassinate Protestant king James I and his parliament. Celebrating that the king had survived, people lit bonfires around London. Months later, the Observance of 5th November Act mandated an annual public day of thanksgiving for the plot's failure.

 

Within a few decades Gunpowder Treason Day, as it was known, became the predominant English state commemoration. As it carried strong Protestant religious overtones it also became a focus for anti-Catholic sentiment. Puritans delivered sermons regarding the perceived dangers of popery, while during increasingly raucous celebrations common folk burnt effigies of popular hate-figures, such as the Pope. Towards the end of the 18th century reports appear of children begging for money with effigies of Guy Fawkes and 5 November gradually became known as Guy Fawkes Day. 

 

 

Guy Fawkes Day / Bonfire night
 

매년 11월 5일 저녁이 되면 영국 전역은 물론 뉴질랜드 등 영연방국들에서는  크고 작은 불꽃놀이로 온동네가 축제 분위기가 된다.

 

1605년에 가이폭스(Guy Fawkes)라는 카톨릭신자가 신교를 옹호하는 제임스1세 국왕과 의회의원을 시해할 목적으로 의회를 폭파시키려고 했는데 실패하고 말았다.

가이폭스는 다음해에 사형을 당했고 죽음을  면한 국왕은 이를 기념하기위해 11월 5일을 공휴일로 정하고 모닥불을 피웠다고 하는데...빅토리아 여왕때 폐지되었다가 지금은 가이 인형을  화형식에 처하는 본파이어 행사와 불꽃놀이 축제로 변했다는~~~ 

뒷마당에서의 불꽃놀이

 

 

가이폭스나이트  폭약 등  불꽃놀이 세트

 

불꽃놀이 후에는 마쉬멜로우를 구워서 먹는 시간~!