Random
Only logged in members can reply and interact with the post.
Join SimilarWorlds for FREE »

Do u (personally) celebrate Halloween 🎃 👻 🪄 🦇 🐍

Do you celebrate Halloween.
Do you dress up in your costume ?
Do you trick or treat ?
Do you have parties ?
Do you have rituals ?
Do you eat drink and be merry ?

I wanna know do you celebrate
the day we call Halloween.
Or does it compromise or conflict with your beliefs.
Answers please. Best one will win. ☺️🎃

[image/video deleted]
This page is a permanent link to the reply below and its nested replies. See all post replies »
ArishMell · 70-79, M
Certainly not.

What you think of as "hallowe'en" is a US commercial supermarket travesty sadly imported to Britain, of what had been an old English church tradition (All Hallows) linked to remembering the dead, mixed with a Scots children's tradition. Neither has any connections to plastic bats, vampires, ghosts and so-called witches; and very little if any to that execrable "trick or treat-ery".

The nearest link was that I think the Scots do, or did, carve "neeps" (turnips) and had something allied to that trick-or-treat thing. I'll invite any Scots here to verify or correct.

What a waste though: umpteen thousands of pumpkins grown, only to be allowed to rot away. Either those actually bought and carved (though you can make soup from them), or the unsold ones left in farm fields long after this one-night nonsense.

I don't think we see so much of the "trick or treat" going on now, in England. I think it's became choked by it too often being an excuse for anti-social behaviour, and by parents becoming afraid to let their little horrors, sorry, darlings, go roaming around after dark, ringing strangers' door-bells. Sometimes, I have seen the younger children at least supervised, by parents accompanying them. Either that or they were going to parties.
Royrogers · 61-69, M
@ArishMell oh no I buy one to make a yomkin of it. I carve out a face
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@Royrogers "Yomkin"? That your name for it? :-)

A house near me has put up as decorations, small, plastic model carved pumpkins with electric lamps in them. Tacky? As hot tar! Still, less wasteful than using real fruit, I suppose.