Fools' Day Celebration

In Great Britain, April Fools' Day continues from midnight to midday, on April 1, and everybody can joke on the friends.

In France, this day has name Poisson d'Avril (April fish). Children attach the paper fish on the backs of their friends, and when an object of derision has found the fish, the funster cries "Poisson d'Avril!"


In German and Austria, April 1 is considered as unhappy day. By legend, Judah was born and Satan had been overthrown from heaven to earth that day. Nobody worked and started new affairs that day, only cheated and sent one another to do something impracticable (for example, to buy gnat's grease

In German and Austria, April 1 is considered as unhappy day. By legend, Judah was born and Satan had been overthrown from heaven to earth that day. Nobody worked and started new affairs that day, only cheated and sent one another to do something impracticable (for example, to buy gnat's grease).

In United States, the small inoffensive jokes are widespread, such as "your shoelace has come undone". Students in dormitories put forwards the clocks of their roommates. In schools, the jokes about cancelled lessons are very often on April Fools' Day.

In some countries of Latin America, the Fool's Day celebrates not on April 1, but on December 28 and has name The Day of Holy Innocents.