Feast of Fools
Americannoun
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“The marketing was all the happy stuff and ‘Come to the Feast of Fools; it’s a party!’ with talking gargoyles, confetti and pies in the face.
From New York Times ● Jun. 21, 2021
So, 25 years after the Second Summer of Love, Feast of Fools are hosting an anniversary whistle-fest featuring the likes of Justin Robertson, Terry Francis and Sugarlump Sound System.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 25, 2013
In The Feast of Fools, Harvey Cox presents Christ as clown and Christianity as comedy, because the world "should not be taken with ultimate or final seriousness."
From Time Magazine Archive
For the Boy Bishop was originally a part of the Feast of Fools and the Feast of Fools had an ancient and disreputable ancestry in the Roman Saturnalia.
From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Power, Eileen
The general parallelism of the Boy Bishop customs and the Feast of Fools is obvious, and no doubt they had much the same folk-origin.
From Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Miles, Clement A.
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