The April 1st is the date historically associated with jokes. There are historical ones and new ones are invented every year. Last year, in full lockdown, it was no time for jokes. It isn’t this year either, but the fact that someone has at least thought about it makes it feel closer to returning to normal. Even if the result was bad. Volkswagen said it would change its name to Voltswagen, to emphasize with Volt that there was talk of electric models. Goodbye to the people’s car? No, just an early April fool. Beware of what you cross a network today. It has been a day for hundreds of years fishes, of crazy inventions and impossible discoveries. A tradition born many centuries ago. The origin of April fools? Maybe Cleopatra …
APRIL FOOL
April Fool’s Day should actually be said in French, April Fool. One of the many theories on the origin of the tradition reports that in France empty gift packages were delivered on this day which, before the calendar Gregorian, was one of the first days of the year as the New Year was celebrated between March 25 and April 1. It seems that not everyone got used to it and these fools were targeted. Other stories say that i fishermen they found no fish on the seabed in early April and were mocked for returning empty-handed.
Medieval court idea which in English is April Fools’ day, the day of the fool. In the Scottish Highlands, April Fools last two days. The second is the Taily Day, in which he sticks to someone’s card in a sign that says: Give me a kick. In Rome as in India (Hindu Holi) the first day of the year fell between the spring equinox and the first day of April.
VENERALIA
In Rome, the first of April was the feast dedicated to Venus Verticordia, that is, that opens hearts. It took place together with that of Fortuna Virile. Women, devoted to Venus, went to the temple and then to the men’s public baths with the divine promise to cover the physical defects of each. Another tradition that brings back to classical mythology. Proserpina, kidnapped by Pluto and taken to the Underworld, but returning every spring, it was a symbol of nature that blossoms after winter. This is the period, the one in which it reopened to life after the rigors of winter.
CLEOPATRA
It seems that the first April Fool was also a game of love between Cleopatra and Marc Antony, in 40 BC. He tried to beat her in one fishing competition by having a servant hook a fish on a hook, she discovered it and had a fake fish placed.
DEATH OF JESUS
Another anniversary linked to this day. The date of Jesus’ death would be the April 1, 33 AD ICHTYS, fish in Greek, for the early Christians it was in recognition because it is the acrostic for Jesus Christ, Son of God the Savior, that is, each letter of the Greek word is the initial of this definition of Jesus.
JOKES
Almost everyone, including famous people and prestigious institutions, lends itself to the joke on the first day of April. The Oxford dictionary reported on April 1, 2017 some new terms in the vocabulary including the American president’s program to give all American citizens a car, theObamacar. It mimicked ObamaCare, the public health program and was obviously a fake. Ikea presented the high chair for dogs. Google has one on the home page every year. The British newspaper Guardian he published, complete with a map, a supplement on a nonexistent island in the Indian Ocean, San Serriffe. It was 1997.
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