April's Fools Day!!

April 1st.

April Fools' Day is celebrated on the 1st of April, every year since it's creations. It is a day during which people play practical jokes and hoaxes on each other. The jokes and their victims are called "April Fools". This day is popular since the 19th century and although it's nota  national holiday in any country, it is well known in India, Canada, Europe, Australia, Brazil and the United States.

The custom for the playing of harmless pranks upon people is recognized everywhere. Some precursos of this day include the Roman festival of "Hilaria", the "Holi" festival in India and the Medieval "Feast of Fools"!
Many writers have mentioned April Fools' Day in their workds, one of them being Chaucer's Canterbury Tales where the "Nun's Priest's Tale" is set in Syn March bigan thritty dayes and two. Many scolars of our days find this to an error and that Chaucer wrote Syn March was gon. Thus the orginal meant 32 days after March. Readers minsunderstood this line to mean "32 March", that being 1st of April. In Chaucer's tales, the vain cock Chauntecleer is tricked by a fox.
The Flemish poet Eduard de Dene wrote of another nobleman who sent his servants off to foolish errands on the 1st of April.

In the Uk, an April fool joke is revealed by shouthing "April fool!" at the recipient who becomes that fool. A research which was conducted showed that the joke ceased at midday of the 1st and the person who continued with playing that joke was indeed the victim and the fool.
In Scotland, orginally this day was known as "Huntigowk Day" although that name exists no more. The traditional prank is to ask somebody to deliver a sealed message which requests help of some sort. In fact, the message reads" Dinna laugh, dinna smile. Hunt the gowk another mile". The reciption, whoever that is, upon reading will say that he can only help if he contacts another person and sends the messenger further on to somebody else and the result is the same. This is also the prank played traditionally in Ireland with a few alterations.


Many prank ideas can be found online in several sites for all to do during this day. Although people have stepped away from the traditions mentioned above, it's always fun to irritate others in a funny way!

So...HAPPY APRIL FOOL'S DAY TO ALL!