Why Halloween's Really British - Anglophenia Ep 41
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- Опубліковано 20 жов 2015
- Anglophenia's Kate Arnell digs deep into the Scottish roots of the spookiest day of the year.
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Here in America it's pretty common knowledge that if the porch light is on that means there is candy. :)
Most of our porch lights are automatic (don't know wether you have that) so it wouldn't matter wether the light was on or not because they always turn off if it can't detect anyone.
+ZombieGirl416 For us the rule is "Do they have a pumpkin or decorations out?"
+ZombieGirl416 I make it REAL easy. I sit outside in a lawn chair with a bowl of candy in my lap. Also, I'm blaring Halloween music from a speaker hidden in the bushes. And yes, the porch light is on.
We live in a quiet area so nobody goes to are house
Halloween is also my sister's favorite holiday, and enjoys it even more than she does Christmas!
your lipstick looks amazing
It does. Even I like it and I don't like lipstick.
+Badatstuff Im a dude, and these videos get slightly more fun to watch since her damn lipstick is so perfect every time.
+XoXBDJok Thanks! It's a natural one called Poppy by 100% Pure!
I was thinking that too!
+Aimtofflan , never thought the lipstick might hold the attention of the dudes :D
Lol did no one else notice the Siobhan outline on the candy lady?
+SingSongThePegasus yup i noticed! Lol nice cameo
+SingSongThePegasus Of course... I miss her...
Yes, I was just going to say it looked like her.
+SingSongThePegasus It was the Double Decker bar she was holding that caught my eye.
+Andres Rodriguez Guapacha (fox) She works at College Humor now.
In Scotland we still call it Guising and we still have to perform a joke or song for sweets
actually its celebrated on 31st October in Ireland and Irish Emigrants spread it to the US and around the world after the Potato Famine.
Right on. Was going to post the same thing
she mentions that the Christian Church moved the celebration of Samhain to All Saints day on Nov 1st @1.13..... the English celebrate Bonfire night on the weekend closest to Nov 5th as this was when Guy Fawkes was executed by been burnt at the stake for treason it also has many sectarian associations in the UK and Northern Ireland. The fact that she says it was the Scottish Celts and used a St George's Flag and not the Scottish Flag and didn't mention that the cetls ranges through most of northern Europe Ireland and Wales northern England and Scotland and "Celts" is manly a term given to a group of tribes of northern europe each Tribe had its own name and practices, the Tradition of a Halloween party (and lighting candles to light the way home for dead ancestors in hollowed out tubers is Irish) and trick or treating and wearing costumes (trick or treating was a way to trick the spirits into leaving people and homes alone to make them believe there was already spirits there ticking and taking food that was left as an offering and the wearing of costumes wa sa way to protect you from spirts latching on to you and bring you misfortune during the new year) and having large bonfires (to scare away spirits) during Samhain is Irish.
Kenneth Donnelly that is later they copied from scotland
***** no the modern day version of Halloween came from the Irish, Ulster Scots and Scots that emigrated to the US in the 18th Century that due to been away from family clung to the old traditions that evolved over the Years into what we know today as Halloween, Oiche Samhain is the Celtic New Year. The Celts manly settled in the north of England and the North East, Wales and Scotland and Ireland, Anglo Saxons and other Germanic tribes settled Southern England with Roman and Roman auxiliaries and camp followers around major Roman Towns and forts and then the Normans invaded.
The Scottish Celts of course came from Ireland, thus Halloween is originally an Irish celebration. It was celebrated here in Ireland first and then brought over.
1234smileface actually the first celts in Scotland were related to the welsh (some Scots still are) and the welsh have Calan Gaef which means First day of Winter and is the equivalent of Samhain.
It’s a universal Celtic tradition from across the Celtic isles, Ireland has its version, Scotland has its version, Wales, Cornwall, Mann, Brittany and even Celtic England had its own version.
We’re all celts at the end of the day.
@@foolofhearts8126 it's Gaelic traditions not Celtic traditions after all Halloween is not celebrated in fucking France
Anthony Mullen aye fuck off, France isn’t Celtic anymore, haven’t been for a long time at least not culturally.
Celebrate by waiting till after halloween and getting discounted halloween candies
I'm Scottish which is where it started and I have to correct loads of people when they say trick-or-treating, guising sounds so much better and more like a real verb!
She is infectiously adorable❤️❤️❤️
My brother and I used to say "trick or treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat"
Absolutely love this channel! I love the personalities and the info on everything UK! My grandmother was from Birmingham, and I've always wanted to visit. Thank you for putting out such awesome content! Plus, the ladies are a totally lush! Seriously! Keep up the great work!
Ok. First of all we call this celebration Día de Muertos (Death Day) and what we used to do is putting an 'offering' into the table or even ground and we decorate with food that our loved ones used to like. We also add some tangarine, reed, orange and the special bread which is called Pan de Muetos (Death Bread) this breas is only available on this month, a tipical flower and some candles and skeletons. If I could show you an image to see it would be better but I cant.
It is a Mexican tradition. I'm mexican by the way.
I hope you can see my comment and answer :).
I love your videos ♡
Here on the Texas/Tamaulipas border, we celebrate both Halloween and the Mexican Dia de los Muertos. It's nice.
I myself am an Eclectic Pagan! So you guessed it! I celebrate Samhain! But I also celebrate Day of The Dead that day as well. The veil is the thinnest and easier to communicate with the dead. We do a big feast as well as a ritual to honor our beloved ancestors! Have an awesome Halloween my dear!
The sky is blue the grass is green have you got a penny for Halloween? If you haven't got a penny a fiver will do, if you haven't got a fiver then God bless you.
Christmas is coming,
The goose is getting fat.
Please put a penny in
The old man's hat.
If you haven't got a penny
A half penny will do;
I you haven't got a half penny,
God bless you.
Sky is bkue the grass is green what have you got for my Halloween
1:18 Polish tombstones
There were no 'Celts', the peoples in the region known as Scotland were The Picts believed to have traveled from Ireland. Samhain was believed to have been celebrated at the turn of the new Lunar year which is shorter than that denoted by the Gregorian calendar. It differs to the celebration of Halloween which was the Eve of All Hallow's, All Hallow's Day being November 1st in the Christian calendar. It is culturally celebrated on Oct 31st due to popular interest. There are many theories that it began at the site of Tlachtga (Hill of Ward) in Athboy, Co. Meath, Ireland, approx. 14 miles from Tara and Lough Crew and approx. 30 miles from Uisneach believed to be the centre of Ireland. Recent archaeological explorations have uncovered many interesting finds at this site, dating as far back as the Neolithic period. One of these such finds was evidence of extensive burning over prolonged periods of time and of great heat intensity. Who knows what this truly means but for now we are happy to accept that Samhain as celebrated by our ancestors may well have begun in Athboy, Co. Meath and for now that's okay. Check out Samhain Festival of Fire on Facebook if you're interested....
Sinead Kavanagh love you
The Irish, Scottish and Welsh are celtic in culture and language. Celtic place names dot Europe as a whole. Northern Spain, Southern Germany and the Czech Republic for example. Genetically speaking there is very little difference between Northern West Europeans rather Germanic or Celtic speaking.
@@michealmacgearailt8232 your right the scots or scotti as they were originally called were a Irish tribe that conquered the pics and Colonized Scotland that’s why Irish and scots have so much traditional culture in common we are both celts and Gaels that’s a fact
There are some Irish republicans and loyalists
That will try anything to sweep this truth under the rug so they can maintain power
@@swaythegod5812 *coloniSed .learn english firzt!
I like how the screencap of All Saints Day at 1:19 is actually Zaduszki in on Polish cemetary (Polish version of All Saints Day).
Halloween is sort of a love/hate relationship for us since my friends and I live close to Salem. We love Halloween, but we hate all the tourists.
I grew up near Hell, Michigan. I got so sick of the yearly "Hell has frozen over" news stories.
Enjoyed this a lot!
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'Mwhahaha....' - love the way you express yourself! I'm a huge fan of yours, Katie. Now I'm away from my beloved part of the world, I've been finding comfort in videos featuring anything English:) Keep up the good work and always looking forward to the next one.
A very informative video, as usual! Thank you! :-)
-_- the celts were spread all across europe, not just Scotland. these arent scottish traditions they are celtic traditions
James Murray no it was the Irish who ere originally called celts
We were destined to survive - huh, i didnt know that. Thanks
James Murray it was Scotland then Ireland then France and then England then the rest of Europe then Ireland inspired USA
+James Murray He is wrong, you were right at first. Celts and the rest of haplogroup R1b Europeans originated from the Pontic steppe north of the Caucasus. Celtic ethnicity began on the north side of the Alps called the Halstatt culture and then spread throughout Western and Eastern Europe, including France (Gaul), Iberia, Britain, Ireland, northern Italy, the Balkans and even Anatolia.
Samhain isn't a general celtic festival. It is a particular festival of the Gaels, the particular celtic people who inhabited Ireland, The Scottish Highlands and Islands, and the Isle of Man. The Britonic Celts whose descendants are now the Welsh, Cornish, and Bretons had similar festivals, but not Samhain in particular. As far as celtic traditions across the rest of Europe, hard to tell, as they were generally conquered and assimilated into the dominant powers of the region. eg. The Gauls of France become romanised following their defeat by Julius Caesar.
Many of the tradition from Halloween originated in Ireland, while undoubtedly many of the customs would have existed in Scotland too as both countries share a common cultural heritage. However this video excludes Ireland and states that it's a solely Scottish invention, which is totally untrue.
Im scottish and know its both countries.
Yeah to say it's only Scotland is just stupid
Love you! You're nuts! So as a true Brit, (who has French and Spanish and Irish roots), I've subb'd 😀
I take the chain off my chainsaw and hide in the bushes. When the kids get to the door i step out and crank r up.... A camo jump suit and jason mask is my costume. About half totally freeze in utter horror and the other half throw their candy at me and run....lol.... But the best hands down are the moms and grandmothers out walking with their kids... they scream and hide behind their men who just laugh and tell me to kill her.... lol.... Good times.
+Muddy Shoe And that's just for Christmas.
+Muddy Shoe I was laughing so hard, just imagining their faces! :D still makes me crack up every time I picture it in my head
Someone did this to my uncle and he knocked them clean out... The guy then proceeded to buy him a drink as an apology after he came round...
+Muddy Shoe My aunt once punched a jump-scarer in the face. She felt horrible but that's how she reacts to jump scares. Needless to say, our family never does that to her since she's socked 3 family members so far. lol
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lol. I wonder. XD
In my area growing up there were (and still are) unofficial rules/traditions for tricker-treating. First off, no trickertreating before the sun was mostly down. Next, no costume = no candy; this mostly applied to teenagers who tried to get away with only wearing the 'This is my costume!' t-shirts. If someone wasn't already sitting outside with the bowl of candy (I lived in a temperate place, enjoying the night and watching the costumed people walk by was common) you checked for a porch light (light by or above the front door); if it was on you rang the bell or knocked, if it was off you left the house alone whether or not they had decorations. Cul-de-sacs usually had a fire-pit that the cul-de-sac residents gathered around, each family brought the candy bowl with them so you didn't go door knocking, you went to the fire-pit and they usually had spiked warm drinks for the adults taking the kids around. The final bit was if you weren't going to be home to hand out candy (usually single parent households) but you were taking your kid around, you were expected to leave your porch light on and a bowl of candy by the door so kids could grab some; most of these bowls had 'Please, only take one.' signs that worked with varying success.
technically its spelt hallowe'en
the "en" is an abbreviation of evening...
so it translates to the evening before all hallows 👍
This has just become my most favorite UA-cam video. And it took less than 30 seconds! Christ, I love this broad!
Very good video. British history and culture are awesome. In Spain we are starting to celebrate halloween but there are still a lot of "antitrick-or-treaters". Congratulations from Spain.
In Kentucky and Tennessee, USA (states I have lived in) the universal sign for candy is the front porch light is turn on. When you run out of candy or just can't/don't want to participate you turn your porch light off. oops, just saw this a few messages down. A friend told us in Des Moines, Iowa the kids have to tell a joke to get candy. They don't say Trick or Treat. Lately, we have been asking kids for a joke and it's been fun
When I was a kid in Scotland, we still all went guising, not trick-or-treating.
This is the best channel. I am looking into going on an exchange to England in my second year of high school and I'm an American noob. BLESS THIS CHANNEL
Loving your posts, as an exPat Scot, who’s lived in the USA for 55 Years, watching these, brings back many fond memories. Besides ‘Dunking’ for Apples,there was the Treacle piece, a slice of bread usually held my string from the laundry rack, then lowered to the children’s height. Got pretty much messy. But funny. Looking forward for more clips. Thanks.
So very informative, love this
Wrong Halloween is Irish, Samhain is truly Irish.
Source?
www.irish-genealogy-toolkit.com/origin-of-Halloween.html
+Oisin Murphy the modern Scots derived from the irish, the Scots were not originally celts. Scotland was full of tribes the largest being picts who painted themselves blue and.... i could go on but that's another story..
Yes sadly the picts are no longer with us.
I like a story I heard when I was young, the Picts had a magical healing mead, the recipe a secret of the tribe so the last Pict took it to his grave
An interesting fact is that in Mexico exists a similar festivity "Day of the Dead" that it is celebrated on November 1 and 2 and as it happened to Halloween it was syncretized with the catholic festivity of All Saints' Day (prior the colonization of the Americas it was celebrated in the beginning of the summer) Traditions connected with the holiday include building private altars called ofrendas, honoring the deceased using sugar skulls, marigolds, and the favorite foods and beverages of the departed, and visiting graves with these as gifts. Visitors also leave possessions of the deceased at the graves.
Why is it I'd go bobbing and snogging with Kate?
lol! David Bowie as the Gobblin King at 0:48! Love it!
Her lips are absolutely beautiful.
Great video! Samhain is my favourite time of the year too
When a child in the Welsh valleys we carved swedes and called them Jack-o-lanterns, and ducked apples suspended on string from door lintels or sometimes in tin baths of water.
I found this channel 10 minutes ago and i love it,because i can improve my british english. Why it is great you ask ?
I love the brits a lot ! Keep up the great work
We make the month of it, putting up a decoration a day. We pick pumpkins as a family, hit some haunted houses or corn mazes, watch horror movies, make witches brew (spiced cider) and of course trick or treating.
What do you use to edit videos? Please answer :)
+Zwariowani windows movie maker mate
you use something!!! go and check out my mum's channel Angie Jean because she edits her vidios (I'll ask her to tell you)!!
@@tomgeorge604 Link?
I could listen to her forever
I celebrate Samhain :D being pagan my self
Kai Kimura im a Wiccan, i also celebrate it :0
Kai Kimura im making an investigation myself on paganism
Gaby Jupiter just remember, alot of people will make paganism out to be peaceful spirituality, but it's extremely serious and should not be taken lightly. This is coming from a pagan.
Are you bragging or complaining?
Here in the Isle of Man kids still have to sing to get sweets (or pennies) and we still carve turnips because we're Celts (and we don't like change)
Halloween is Irish not Scottish.
It's celtic. Which encompasses Scotland as well.
+SaltireBarron You are wrong. It originates is a place 30 mins from my house in County Meath which is in the Republic of Ireland and not Britain. Please do not get this confused. It was never a Scottish tradition and is solely Irish not Scottish or British. Please rectify this video spreading disinformation.
+SRM Solar radiation management Geoengineering
Shhhh.... no one cares.
theonlylunarmage The people of Ireland care.
+SRM Solar radiation management Geoengineering The Irish can claim it as much as they want, so can the Scots but the fact remains that it is tradition of nearly all Celtic tribes. If you want to try and prove that the Irish have sole claim to the tradition then by all means present your evidence. Not just the claim, anyone can assert anything, present actual proof.
06:18 oh look its siobhan
+André Javis I noticed it too!
lol that ''evil'' laugh at the beginning was amazing xD
we used to ho ftom door to door chanting:
the sky is blue,
the grass is green,
have you got a penny for Halloween?
if you haven't got a penny,
a ha'penny will do,
if you haven't got a ha'penny,
then god bless you.
usually, you'd end up with someone's coppers, but you'd get sweets as well..,
we called this 'Halloweening' -but I've not seen it since I moved down south :/
Yes, I still go Guising, as I call it, and that's the poem we have to recite! I'm Scottish and if somebody gives you a 20p coin then they're generous - the kind people give out sweets but most people just give you peanuts and oranges 😢
Yeah, In the USA its generally safe to trick or treat at houses that have their porch lights on. If there aren't any porch lights then you look for Halloween decorations. Got a few grumps here too.
06:18 ...Is it you, Siobhan?
Samhain starts at sunset on 31 October and ends at sunset on 1 November - not having clocks, the celts could not tell when was midnight and so days were measured by something clearly definable like sunset.
Oh so the Irish feast of Samhain and all its traditions are Scottish now? Did you do any research for this?
It's Brittonic Celtic so Scotland, Ireland and Wales is where the tradition is strongest
True but nearly all of the traditions mentioned here originated in Ireland, as even the most basic research into Halloween will tell you. There's even folklore to explain where the traditions began.
+Murra MacRory 'S e na Gaidhealan a th' ann na Gaidhealan. Gaels are Gaels. Eire, Alba no Mannainn, there's no difference. (Although, yes, the Gaels did come up north from Ireland, so I take your point).
+taliesin garland "Brittonic" Celts are Welsh, Breton and Cornish. "Goidelic" Celts are Scottish, Irish, and Manx. The trick is whether we can understand each other speaking our own languages or not. Don't get them confused, because Gaelic- and Irish-speakers can't understand Welsh- or Cornish-speakers, and vice-versa! Gaidheals from Scotland and Gaels from Ireland are the same people, but cousins to the Brittonic peoples.
Did the Orish Scots teach the Pictish people to suck eggs.
REFORMATION DAAAAAYYYYY!!!!!!!!! But also, Sting performed a version of "Soul Cake" on his Winter album. It was wonderful!
thank you
You are gorgeous! And I love your accent! Halloween trick-or-treating is fading away in the US for a lot of reasons. Small kids still do it, but always under the watchful eye of a parent. Growing up in the 1960s we'd trick-or-treat on our own until the streetlights came on. I don't bother giving out candy on Halloween because in past years only 2 or 3 sets of kids have showed up on Halloween.
It's 5:20 in the morning and I'm dead tired. I was on another video but then I accidentally clicked on this video on my touch screen and after that jump scare at the beginning, I am most certainly, absolutely, 100% awake for the next century haha...
Also in Mexico will sing "triky triky Halloween, quiero dulces para mi(I want candies for me)", also "Dia de los Muertos"
This year I dressed in my professionally made Masters Robe & Hood with mortar board. Sitting on my porch on my Roman Chair reading Dawking's new biography, with a table beside me showing my double BA & MA. And I gave out small bags of 1 full size and 3-4 mini candy bars. My street is next to one of the 2 Uni's in my town, and almost no families live on my block. So I wanted to get a rep as a house to go to in the neighborhood.
00:02 well that just helped contribute to me having 1960s era Julie Andrews related nightmares…
We just finished living in London for a couple years, and it was getting to be a bigger and bigger thing, especially in dominantly American neighborhoods. Shops aren't generally decorated and the natives would kind of shrug their shoulders, "We don't really do Halloween here." Decorations were low-key, and sometimes you would get something like a handful of gummy bears.
we live in the city so we do trunk or treats. usually churches and schools decorate their car and the kids go from car to car trick or treating instead of going house to house. when we lived in a small town we went door to door but in a big city trunk or treat feels slightly safer.
Great video! :-D
I grew up celebrating with Harvest Parties, or a more conservative Christian festival held at a church. No scary costumes were allowed and everything was more about celebrating autumn than the spooky theme of Halloween. I actually really loved it and sometimes help with the one at my nephew's church. There, we do trunk-or-treating where we decorate the boot of our car and pass out candy beside it, so kids can get candy all in one place instead of walking around a neighborhood.
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We do the singing and carving turnips on Saint Martin's day, 11th November, and the children love every bit of it!
Carving a turnip (swede if you're from the south of England) makes a spookier lantern, as, if done properly, it looks like a bone white skull.
No street celebration in Kuwait. I do love Halloween however, and threw local home party once. Love to do it again.
Binge watching Anglophenia right now 😂
I have always loved Halloween and my family are from Scotland, though my mothers hatered of the event meant we never celebrated Halloween except when staying with my grandparents. thank you for the insight as to why. I missed Halloween dress up this year due to work but will make up for it with a vengeance next. I really enjoy anglophenia and again thank you for this episode and all the others
The turnip carving makes much more sense to me now. I'm in the USA and have been part of a historical creation group (sort of medieval larping) since I was little. One time around Halloween the children's activities was carving turnips. I had wondered why they didn't have little pumpkins for us to carve. I'm guessing the adult in charge did their research. :)
Last halloween I handed out smarties boxes with raisins in, this year I've already bought over 80 chocolate oranges and I'm working my way through the chocolate and I'm going to package large oranges inside them and wrap them up carefully and hand them out. It's the perfect trick because by the time they realise they will already be home and probably will forget where I live.
Family Halloween movies are the greatest: goosebumps, coraline, nightmare before Christmas, etc
it's Irish. came from Ireland. cuz it was there first
Actually it's a Celtic tradition, so pretty much all of Western Europe
It is Celtic which is Irish and Scottish
Reuben kane no it is the celts which were from Scotland
taliesin garland the Celtic countries where halloween originated were Scotland Ireland and wales
Yep its irish and the lighting candles on graves is polish...yep it even sas it on one of the graves in the picfure..."rodzinny grób"...
In the US you can tell if someone has candy for trick-or-treaters if their front porch light is on, because some people will have jack o'lanterns out whether they are handing out candy or not.
i love her.
I live in Scotland and most people call it guising and lots of us like to say a wee poem, probably about death... I think some people carve neeps but most of the time we don't carve anything, we're too busy chasing sheep round the hills in our kilts as it rains buckets.
We have the Day of the Dead on November the 2nd here in Mexico, but as I happen to live in the border I get to celebrate both. :)
It came from Ireland and then it traveled to Scotland since they did bring things like carving faces into things like pumpkins and whatever is in that family.
As a Pagan, Samhain is basically its own season from the beginning of October (when autumn finally starts to kick in) to a bit past Yule. I typically celebrate my sombre, serious Samhain on the full moon before Halloween, let my wild side run loose on the 31st, and then mesh the two for the following two days. Thanksgiving is also a good time to spend with both living and dead loved ones.
I should have specified that this is how /I/ spend my time. Not every Earth worshipper does this. *no butt hurt*
+Tristyn Rohlfing As a Christian and a Gaelic-speaker, "Samhain" means "November", but the season you're describing would be "gobhar", or autumn (comes in between "samhradh" and "geamhradh", although I'm in the southern hemisphere, so October-December is "earrach", or "spring", for me). A lot of churches and other community groups in my area do still celebrate Harvest Festival in about February, though, and the wider community is gearing up for a spate of Spring Fairs at the moment. Maypoles will be involved.
+Tristyn Rohlfing A lot of more traditional churches do still observe All Saints', as well, not unlike the sombre, serious thing you're describing. My grandfather, a minister of 55+ years, spends the day in quiet prayer, lighting candles for deceased friends and relatives (at 84, he has a lot of deceased friends and relatives).
+Tristyn Rohlfing I wonder sometimes what the neopagans in my area (I'm sure they're are a lot) think of the recent popularity of Hallowe'en, which isn't traditionally celebrated here. I do know that the neopagan calendar runs 6 months ahead in the southern hemisphere, to match up with the seasons, so I think it must seem as odd to them as a Harvest Festival in October would seem to me!
I've heard the apple skin over your shoulder one. It was in a teen novel from the 80s, the girls were doing "witchcraft" at a sleepover party.
i usually follow the old tradition and light a few candles for loved ones past and then write any negative clouds that followed me over the year on a piece of paper and then burn it. and then in the end i do a cake blessing andon halloween parkin is the traditional sweet and enjoy it with some warmed cordial.Samphain is also known as the witches new year the final notch in the Wheel of the year
This channel was underrated
I love you, Kate!!!
The way she says Rabbie Burns is 🙌🏻👌🏻😂
Kate, you are just amazing! What a pity we don't celebrate Halloween in my country!!!
Nov. 1 my bday! Such an awesome day to have a bday as a kid
Forget the apple peel. If you're looking for a spouse, my name is Richard! This woman is hot enough to make me want to move to that dreary rain swept island.
i cant stop watching for so many reasons, but mostly because kate is so dang cute!!
Very interesting.
Halloween has become more popular then Christmas, thats not good
+Tallacus Why is it not good? They're both good Pagan festivals that got disneyfeid.
Kieran Fitzgerald quoting my conservative father
+Tallacus Why? God is a total myth invented by men.
+Little Pip that is right, except for kids and corner shops.
in America
Please post more videossss
I love these little shorts. My family did not celebrate Halloween, because my parents considered it to be the devils holiday. Although, we did celebrate Guy Fawkes, since both my parents were part British.Your lipstick is great.
wait...your older then 20... mind blown
I know.. She doesn't look it at all.
+big macintosh you're*
Bostonzo B fanx :P
+big macintosh really? I'd have guessed about 28
+big macintosh *than
My grandmother was raised as a green witch. Her family celebrates Samhain by holding a dumb supper. All the family files in to sit 'round a table, and at the place of honor at the head of the table is placed a meal for the dead.
Then, after dinner, my two great grandmothers and their covens would gather in the apple grove, have a bonfire, and perform a ritual to honor the passing of the god and celebrate his eventual return at Yule.
Halloween is my absolute favorite time of year. I love it so much, that I recently just got married on Halloween. :)
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I grew up in Scotland and it's still called guising by a lot of people. Specifically the older generations. You do still have to have a joke, song, or rhyme at the ready too. As although not everyone will ask, if they do and you had nothing prepared, it gets awkward. Just don't get your hopes up that you'll get to do a big performance as it is less common for people to ask now.
Same here; it's really awkward if your with older people because they invite you inside and you have to stand in the middle of their living room and do a 'performance'....
That's what bugs me as well...I've also been told you have to earn the sweets by a joke or a poem
I live in Scotland and on Halloween my family and I were calling it guising. It's still pretty common to call it guising
+Rachael Langan I live in England now and most people used to call it Halloweening but trick or treating is now more common. Which is weird as there are never any tricks.
PurpleHat026 It's mostly adults who call it guising here. Alot of children call it trick or treating.