traditions

Something struck me recently. Danes don't get engaged. We tend to skip that part. Usually, people decide to live together, and if people do agree to get married (often after the kids have arrived), it seems like a good occasion to have a great party, fill up the house with blenders and...

This is specifically to address the superstition of bad luck attributed to a place where people have died. This is not akin to the western idea of graveyards being solemn places, because people don't die there; they go there to be buried. I'm talking about the whole murder-house theme; where...