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The Feast of Fools or Festival of Fools (Latin: festum fatuorum, festum stultorum) was a feast day on January 1 celebrated by the clergy in Europe during

Look up Feast of Fools in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Feast of Fools may refer to: The Feast of Fools, a medieval feast day The Feast of Fools, a 1994

was originally celebrated primarily in France, as a by-product of the Feast of Fools celebrating the donkey-related stories in the Bible, in particular

The Feast of Fools (1994) is a novel by John David Morley, a neo-Joycean translation of the Greek myth of Persephone to contemporary Munich. On the day

commonly on the feast of Holy Innocents on 28 December. This tradition links with others, such as the Feast of Fools and the Feast of Asses. In England

Christmastide to preside over the Feast of Fools. The Lord of Misrule was generally a peasant or sub-deacon appointed to be in charge of Christmas revelries, which

April Fools' Day or April Fool's Day (rarely called All Fools' Day) is an annual custom on the 1st of April consisting of practical jokes, hoaxes, and

occurs after the Feast of Fools and has been held since the 16th century or earlier, with a long 20th century interregnum. The Carnival of Paris is a festival

structured setting associated with carnival, such as the Feast of Fools, or church liturgy. The derivation of the word is uncertain. It may come from the Latin

beginning of the novel as one of the Flemish guests at the Feast of Fools. He convinces the Parisians to walk out on Gringoire's play and select the Fools' Pope