Talk:Bonfire

message: I was always told that the term bonepyre was used in reference to the practice of burning the contents of the ossuarie when it became full, thus freeing up more space for the dead, has anyone got any more information regarding this?--Pypex 19:06, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: This article needs a serious prune, it's awful :(. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 217.146.113.66 (talk) 11:35, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup 

message: The oldest documented spellings of this are banefyre (1483) bone fyre (1493) according to OED (it is word-of-the-day today).  OED states that the alternative bon (fr: good) fire is mistaken. TomViza 12:53, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  etymology & spelling 

message: The nine woods are wrong... "Elder be ye lady's tree, burn it not or cursed you'll be."  I have switched it to the proper woods.  Thanks 69.245.172.44 14:12, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: The nine woods

message: Bon fire night comes from the French Aristocracy who were and are ruling the Uk. In the 1600s they still spoke french as their first language. Bon fire night is french for "good fire night".````  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jon1010 (talk • contribs) 11:43, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  The meaning of "Bon fire night" 

message: Why are the US traditions surrounding bonfires put under the UK/Ireland subheading?
If the US has similar celebrations involving bonfires then they should have their own subheading, rather than being glued to the end of another. Might as well put it in under Indian or Israel if you're going to do that. Sorry for my trollish observation, it's late and I don't like Global-Americanisation.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.145.154.81 (talk) 00:18, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed the same day. United states now has its own section in proper alphabetical order with other countries.  Velella  Velella Talk   11:10, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: And why are Nordic Countries together too? Totally different traditions... MarlinMr (talk) 14:14, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  UK + US 

message: The most important holidays of Great Britain held on 5 November and is known as Guy Fawkes Day. Oddly, this holiday commemorates the day in 1605 when Guy Fawkes and a group of Englishmen tried to blow up the English Parliament by placing barrels of gunpowder in the basement of the Parliament building. On bonfire, children eat candy apples, hotdogs and have a party with friends... children like to light sparkles and after the party go to the park and fire the guy fawkes.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Juanileon (talk • contribs) 22:40, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: This is covered at Bonfire#United Kingdom but it's not a public holiday. --Trevj (talk) 10:05, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Guy Fawkes Day 

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message: i'm sure there are regional traditions here and there in the US, but in new england at least, it is fairly common to have a community bonfire to burn christmas trees on or around 6 jan.  i myself have never seen one for halloween or the 4th of july; yet the christmas tree/epiphany one i've seen in 4 or 5 diff towns.
needs to be at least MENTIONED.  especially since the photo is of a "christmas tree burning"!  209.172.23.203 (talk) 03:02, 19 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Epiphany!