Guy Fawkes burnt alive question

[doomey!]

Does anyone else find it odd, that we as a nation stil endorse the fact that the death of some one is still "celebrated" on the 5th Novemeber??

Or is it to celebrate the fact, that a brave man tried to over throw a government?

[China Doll]

I believe it's to celebrate the fact that he did not blow up the houses of parliment.

To show how pleased we are we let off gun powder.

What's odd about that?!

[weggiewabbit]

This was a religious thing - it was a Catholic-inspired plot to take over the country

[doomey!]

I find it odd that we still do the bonfire as well.
After all a man was put to death by it. (alegadly)
does that not bother you at all..
it does me.

[MustafaTickl]

Guy Fawkes was not burned. He was sentenced to be hung, drawn and quartered along with the others. He was the last to be done, and with the noose round his neck leaped from the scaffold and broke his neck and died immediately, thus avoiding being drawn and quartered.Here he is.

[doomey!]

Oh..
So where do we get the burning the guy idea from?
Wierd.

[MustafaTickl]

Bonfire Night celebrates the defeat of a conspiracy to blow up the Houses of Parliament with the then King, James I, in it. On 5th November 1605, two years after the death of Queen Elizabeth I, soldiers discovered a man called Guy Fawkes in a cellar under the Houses of Parliament (this was not the present day Houses of Parliament). With him were at least twenty barrels of gunpowder. Guy Fawkes was arrested and after torture told his torturers about a plot to blow up Parliament, together with King James his Ministers and Members of Parliament. Guy Fawkes was a Roman Catholic who had been angered by the failure of King James, who was the son of the Catholic Mary Queen of Scots, to grant more religious toleration to Catholics. He had joined with a group of four other Catholics led by Robert Catesby in a plot to kill the king. Catesby had made the mistake of inviting other Catholics to join the plot. One of these was called Francis Tresham. Tresham wrote a letter to his brother-in-law Lord Monteagle warning him not to go to Parliament on 5 November 1605 and Monteagle told the government. Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators were subsequently sentenced to an agonising death as traitors. In 1606 Parliament then agreed to make 5th November an annual day of public thanksgiving and ever since then the day has been celebrated with fireworks and bonfires. The way of celebrating with a bonfire is related to the ancient festival of Samhain, the Celtic New Year. Bonfires formed an important part of the Celtic New Year celebrations - warding off evil spirits. From November 5th 1606 as part of the public thanksgiving it became the custom light bonfires to ward off the evil influences of Catholics and the Pope. What makes the British Bonfire Night celebrations special is the burning of the guy. Whilst on the surface the guy represents Guy Fawkes it really represents Roman Catholics and the Pope.

[kujawski]

yep for shore,

for gods a sake we should ban easter, etc etc etc ,

and kill all jews as they killed him ( apparently)

erm i think its called tradition,.

stop asking such stupid questions, get a time machine and asked the people a few hundred years ago why they did what they did!!!

[dot.hawkes]

kujawski that is an awful reply, if people stopped asking stupid questions on here there would be very little left to read. : )

[EngTeach]

Dot, You are so wise.