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Thanks - that's an interesting read. Are we going to have a thread about the day of the dead?

[QUOTE]Put your clothes on inside out and walk backwards on Halloween night to meet a witch./QUOTE]

I'd like to try this but bedtime is creeping up on me.

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Great opening sequence to Spectre

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Yeah, it was pretty good.

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I love it.

In a small village the littlies are well behaved and always with parents.

An innocent bit of fun.

They love dressing up.

The pre school ones are best, dressed up, made up and allowed to stay up late.

How wide their eyes get when confronted with an array of sweets just there for the taking.

Very polite, they only take one.

When they are told they can have 3, the look on their faces is priceless.

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We don’t get ‘trick or treaters’ here anymore, not since I opened the door dressed like Jimmy Saville.

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Traditional trick or treat, aka guising, involves the local kids going door to door and performing a trick. This could be anything from doing handstands to reciting poetry. If the trick was good enough they would be given a treat.

Alas it went across the Atlantic, got corrupted like so many other things have done, and came back in the completely different form of demanding sweets with menaces.

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The little ones are not so bad, they enjoy dressing up, having sweets and would probably not know what to do if you said 'trick', - but some of the older children can be really threatening.

In Ireland the tradition was to go 'Souling'. People - mainly children - would go door to door begging a 'soul cake' in return for which they would say prayers for the souls of the givers, their friends/relatives/pets etc., It was a religious festival and nothing what ever to do with the 'trick or treat' thing they do today.

"A soul! a soul! a soul-cake!
Please good Missis, a soul-cake!
An apple, a pear, a plum, or a cherry,
Any good thing to make us all merry.
One for Peter, two for Paul
Three for Him who made us all."

In Yorkshire they also used to celebrate 'Mischief Night' - not sure if they do it elsewhere - but on Nov 4th (night before Guy Fawkes) children would go around knocking on doors and running away - which expanded into taking gates off, breaking eggs on car windscreens etc., Thankfully that one seems to have died out.

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Give them an Old Pound Coin.

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Spitfire - that is just naughty - I will report you to Mups !

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I thought I had got rid of all mine, but found some in the car.

Luckily they worked in the Airport drop off yesterday.