Ooh, this looks fun!

[justice_turtle]

'In honor of All Hallow's Eve, I'm inviting trick-or-treaters to my 'door.' Comment "trick-or-treat" to this post and...well, you know the drill. Treats can be anything that strikes my fancy (pics of fave actors or pairings, one sentence fics, graphics, a few words why I'm glad to have you on my flist, etc. etc.). The more "houses" to visit the

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[lost_spook]

Well, it's your thing; I don't think we copy it well! :-) But lots of children do go round to family, friends and neighbours, all dressed up & have fun - it just wasn't like that when I was small, and I still see some of the more negative sides here, now. But that is probably only me being gloomy!!

But then a lot of surviving traditions we have own to some dark/violent roots - it's that idea of 'misrule', basically, so (& especially this time of year) you get Mischief Night, and other random stuff although most of it has died out, or been banned. There actually are tiny bits of deepest, darkest England still around. Often run by jolly well meaning people keeping tradition alive and being careful and pc these days, but tradition isn't always nice. (And, yes, lots of these would make for good DW stories. :-D)

We have Bonfire Night very soon after, though, and that's the big one over here & again, especially where I came from, because we have a Guy Fawkes Carnival, which is a huge deal in my home town & beyond. (Bonfire Night has far dodgier origins, of course...!)

[dbskyler]

Trick-or-treating must seem like a really strange tradition if you didn't grow up with it. I had to look up what Mischief Night is; that doesn't sound good. Apparently they have it in some areas of the U.S. too, but not anywhere that I've ever lived. Halloween for me has always been safe and fun. Even when I lived in the heart of New York City, I saw little kids in costumes trick-or-treating, but instead of knocking on peoples' doors (which could have been problematic), they went to businesses. I got to see 4-year-old kids all dressed up, carrying little plastic pumpkin baskets, going into hardware stores and sushi bars and asking for candy, and getting it. It was adorable.