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The holiday, as portrayed in the Seinfeld episode,[1][3] includes practices such as the "Airing of Grievances," which occurs during the Festivus meal and in which each person tells everyone else all the ways they have disappointed him or her over the past year. After the meal the "Feats of Strength" are performed, involving wrestling the head of the household to the floor, with the holiday ending only if the head of the household is actually pinned.
The original holiday featured more peculiar practices, as detailed in the younger Daniel O'Keefe's book The Real Festivus. The book provides a first-person account of an early version of the Festivus holiday as celebrated by the O'Keefe family, and how O'Keefe amended or replaced details of his father's invention to create the Seinfeld episode.[4]
Some people, influenced or inspired by Seinfeld,[1] now celebrate the holiday in varying degrees of seriousness; the beginning of the spread of Festivus is chronicled in the 2005 book Festivus: The Holiday for the Rest of Us by Allen Salkin.[5]
In other countries, where the holiday is gaining popularity, the holiday takes on its own traditions based on local customs and practices. For instance in Ireland (where the holiday is also know in Irish as Féilteabhus) there is the traditional Festivus Pub Crawl, similar to the more common "12 Pubs of Christmas." In the course of the day the international traditions of Airing of Grievances and Feats of Strength are combined into the crawl.
The holiday, as portrayed in the Seinfeld episode,[1][3] includes practices such as the "Airing of Grievances," which occurs during the Festivus meal and in which each person tells everyone else all the ways they have disappointed him or her over the past year. After the meal the "Feats of Strength" are performed, involving wrestling the head of the household to the floor, with the holiday ending only if the head of the household is actually pinned.
The original holiday featured more peculiar practices, as detailed in the younger Daniel O'Keefe's book The Real Festivus. The book provides a first-person account of an early version of the Festivus holiday as celebrated by the O'Keefe family, and how O'Keefe amended or replaced details of his father's invention to create the Seinfeld episode.[4]
Some people, influenced or inspired by Seinfeld,[1] now celebrate the holiday in varying degrees of seriousness; the beginning of the spread of Festivus is chronicled in the 2005 book Festivus: The Holiday for the Rest of Us by Allen Salkin.[5]
In other countries, where the holiday is gaining popularity, the holiday takes on its own traditions based on local customs and practices. For instance in Ireland (where the holiday is also know in Irish as Féilteabhus) there is the traditional Festivus Pub Crawl, similar to the more common "12 Pubs of Christmas." In the course of the day the international traditions of Airing of Grievances and Feats of Strength are combined into the crawl.
