The Many Pranks of April Fool's Day

April Fool's Day is a lighthearted holiday with jokes and pranks being pulled everywhere. Most of the jokes and pranks are all in good fun and are not meant to harm anyone. April Fool's Day was originally called All Fool's Day but everyone eventually started calling it April Fool's Day.

There are lots of different theories about how April Fool's Day was started. One theory is when the date of New Year's Day was changed from April 1st to January 1st. New Year's Day was originally on March 25th but with the Holy Week starting on March 25th, New Year's was celebrated on April 1st. Once the date was moved from April 1st to January 1st France adopted the new calendar and switched the date to January 1st. However most people either refused to change from tradition or just simply forgot and still celebrated on the 1st of April therefore being called fools and having pranks being pulled on them.

Another theory is that with Spring starting in late March that "nature" must be pranking us with the weird weather changes, The weather in March one day can be really nice and the next day it could be cold and snowing.

No one knows for sure what really happened to start April Fool's Day but it really doesn't matter because the pranks keep coming each year. There are superstitions that say anyone playing a joke or prank on someone else must quit playing these jokes or pranks by noon on April 1st. If they do not quit by noon they will have bad luck for years to come. Another superstition is if a girl plays a prank on a girl then the boy she played the prank on will marry her in the future or at least have a long lasting friendship with the girl.