Not far from Zurich, thousands of pumpkins – not just to look at but to eat and buy – are on display at the Jucker Farm with a special exhibition of life-size pumpkin dinosaurs.
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Martin and Beat Jucker have built their careers around the humble pumpkin, and on Saturday expect to attract 15,000 people to “European Halloween Festival 2000” – an all-night party to celebrate both the occasion and the vegetable. The six dance floors at the festival will be strewn with thousands of pumpkins of all shapes and…
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While today’s American-style celebrations are relatively new to Switzerland, the alpine nation has its own ghostly traditions linked to this time of year. Although pumpkin lanterns are now directly associated by many Swiss with Halloween, they have a long-standing place in the country’s own customs. According to Sergius Golowin, a writer and story collector from…
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