Yesterday it was "
Sint Maarten"
("St. Martin's Day", named after the Roman soldier Martinus that cut off half of his warm cloak to share with a shivering beggar and converted to Catholicism to became bishop Martin of Tours) when in some parts of the Netherlands children still go around town with a lantern to sing
(and collect candy 😁) in his honor
(kinda like a Halloween for the low-countries).
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| St. Martin sharing half of his cloak with a beggar and children with lanterns singing to get candy on St. Martin's day. |
But I was very surprised to see that tfrog from Japan apparantly knows about this Dutch tradition too, because he released this super cute papercraft of
Funerositora-chan holding her lantern
(an original character created by Anmaku Tokeru, a mysterious child walking around with a top hat, lantern and scythe...) yesterday to coincide with the holiday! 🏮
...or maybe it was just a serendipitous coincidence...? 😉
Download + build your own free papercraft Funerositora-chan (+lots more, by tfrog):
