Tonight the neighborhood ‘goblins’ will be out, going from house to house collecting booty.

At least that is the scheme. Years ago when I was a kid, my brother and I could work the neighborhood collecting several shopping bags of candy. Today there are far fewer trick ‘n’ treaters then in the past. My wife has several bags of candy ready to go, but I expect a small turnout (and I’ll be forced to dispose of the candy )

Below are some photos of halloween past.




"Halloween originated from the Pagan festival Samhain, celebrated among the Celts of Ireland and Great Britain." Wikipedia has a nice article on the history of Halloween - quite interesting.


What are your Halloween stories?

Hola Don!

As far as we are aware in Spain it is a non event. !st Nov. 'All Soul's' day is a very solemn day. Many businesses close and families visit the cemeteries and leave flowers, plants etc on family graves, most of which are in the cemetery wall. Your remains only rest in the grave as long as the family pay the rent, I believe.

For the last few days we have been aware of flower sprays etc for sale and people puchasing same ready for Thursday (many are made with artificial flowers). Tomorrow we shall see long queues wending their way to the cemetery.

So...no I don't have any packets of sweets or candy ready. Last year we were in the UK and I had a tin full of sweets in anticipation but nobody called!! We were most surprised.

Hasta luego Gillian

I think i will be out! I know a spoil sport but I did not let jo and lee go out to just anyones house> We used to go to friends on the street who agreed to it. It was never heard of when i was young to go trick or treating! Kids around here seem to want MONEY and when offered sweets they have turned their noses up at it, Hence tonight I'm out.

Hi
We never had trick or treating when I was young.
I live in a quiet cul-de-sac, so we don't get any trick or treaters.

Hi everyone,

jfs - I love the little verse you posted on your Topic on the Anniversaries Board
>> Halloween >>

No - we never used to do "Trick or Treat" around here - its just a recent
years thing that I think has been passed across to us from the USA.

Ask anyone who lives in East or South East Lancashire or West Yorkshire
about Halloween and the first thing they will think about usually is Pendle
Hill and the Lancashire Witches - or sometimes referred to as the Pendle
Witches, who were imprisoned in the "Witches Tower" at Lancaster Castle.

When I was in my teens, it was the norm to go on treks up Pendle Hill
on Halloween!!

See Mattycat's Topics......
this one on our East & South-East Lancs Board
>> The Pendle Witches a true story >>
and this one on our Lancs-other areas Board
>> History Of Lancaster Castle >>

Other "Pendle" related topics on East & S East Lancs Board...
>> Location of Pendle Hill >>
>> Pendleton, Village & Church >>

Yep you have just reminded me about up Pendle Hill.
Spent one Halloween in Downham...that was a good night...we could not get close to the hill for the traffic.

Hiya Maxine,

Ooh yes - loads of memories of Halloween!!

One time - when I was about 17 or 18 - with my ex-husband - but this was well
before we were married. We set off on a trek up to Pendle & were supposed
to be meeting up with a bunch of other young people. We took a tent & sleeping
bags!! It was dark, wild, windy and cold!!

We never caught up with the others - we got lost!! Ended up so tired and cold
that we decided just to choose a spot & put up our tent. Couldn't get the tent up -
it kept blowing away - it was like being on "Wuthering Heights"!!
(well - we hadn't a clue where we were - so we could have been in West Yorkshire
by then - for all we knew!! )

In the end - we were that fed up with it - & falling out with each other, then
laughing, then falling out again!! haaa haa - and so tired - we gave up on trying
to put up the tent, unrolled the sleeping bags, chucked em down on the grass,
got into them, pulled the tent over us like a blanket!! and fell asleep.

Early morning we were wakened by the sound of a loud mooo-ooo-ooooo.
Peeped over our blanket (the tent!) and there was this cow - looking down
at us - mooo mooo mooo!! :ha-ha-ha-ha: We jumped up, picked up our stuff and fled.

Still no idea where we were that night!! & didn't really care at the time!
We hitched a lift back to Blackburn.

Thought would just share that with you all - happy memories!! haaa haa.
I suppose we were lucky it was only a cow and not a witch -
or we might have ended up in a cauldron!!........ haaa haaa. Carole. :wave2: