From Den Bosch to Maastricht, the carnival clothes will be pulled out of the closet on Saturday and carnival crackers will sound in the bars. This happens every year on November 11. But what exactly is ‘the eleventh of the eleventh’?
On November 11, the carnival season – or Lent season in Limburg – will officially start. But why does that happen on that day?
One of the theories concerns the symbolic value of the number. 11 consists of two 1’s. Everyone is equal at Carnival, says word historian MaartenJan Hoekstra NPO Radio 5.
But 11 is also known as a crazy number. It falls between the perfect number 10 and the sacred number 12. For example, some see the eleventh commandment as the commandment where you do not have to worry about the ten commandments. “That’s exactly what applies to carnival.”
2023-11-11 10:11:11
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