Until recently in the UK it wasn't really anything special, it was just a chance to read a ghost story to the kids, have some fun apple bobbing . Then it became more americanised as a commercial opportunity. I can't stand it
@@andrewobrien6671 yes it was it was big in Scotland and north east England just not so much in the south. We always went out guising with carved turnips knocking on doors getting pillow cases full of sweets
I have never been trick or treating and my house mate was only allowed to go if she took gifts to give. I carve a pumpkin now and put it on the door step so the little people know they can knock on the door, but it never lasts more than hour
@ at one minute past midnight today …. Dearest hubster rolled his eyes and spoke very firmly saying “thank f Halloween is over for another year….” He’s not a fan .. really…..no he isn’t 😩🥺😦 …..but now I will suffer from his rants and rages about “Christmas TV advertising….” 😱 and this is the absolute honest truth, at two minutes past midnight, just about to turn the telly off….and we were subjected to the first Christmas food ads from Sainsbury’s (my ex employer!) I just watched in disbelief - 53 days of having to watch sliced turkey and roast potatoes on a dinner plate! 😲🤣 T
@ two days 😳 - mustn’t forget Boxing Day! But we don’t call those “holiday” days either! A “holiday” to us here, usually means packing a suitcase and your bucket n spade n sand flags and looking forward to more than one or two days n a different place but why is it known as a “holiday”? Just sounds so strange! 🤔🫢
Halloween was never really a big thing in England. It’s only in recent years that trick and treating, dressing up etc has become more popular. You can’t really compare it to America properly, because the main celebration (in England at least) at this time of year is Guy Fawkes Night on 5th November (not sure about the rest of the UK?). In England it supersedes Halloween by a long way.
Halloween or more correctly 'Samhain' has its origins in the Celtic nations of Scotland and Ireland........it was / is a celebration of the harvest.........'halloween' is a christian religious celebration.
@@enemde3025 It's thousand's of years old originally an Indo-European Pagan/Celtic festival marking the movement on the Earth & was a spiritual event celebrated across the continent. As new peoples emerged such as Germanic, Gauls or Slavic tribes the Celts & their traditions were pushed out & it was forgotten in most of Europe except the Pagan/Celtic strongholds of the British Isles. Ever evolving it would later be absorbed into Christianity as was it's counterpart Easter. The commercialised Halloween we know today is a melting pot of tradition's from Scotland, England & Ireland all blended together in the USA & reimported into Europe although many in the British Isles still celebrate it as the spiritual event it originally evolved from.
I really don't like it. It is overly commercialised, with "pressure" to dress-up, trick-or-treating, and buy excessive amounts of "treats." I keep the lights low and ignore the door. 😃😃😃
As a kid in the 1950s and 60s we sometimes did bob apple and made turnip lanterns on Halloween. We didn't go knocking on people's doors and if we were lucky we got a toffee apple, not that I liked them! Our attentions were focused on Bonfire Night, 5th November. We made a Guy from dad's old clothes and saved our pocket money for fireworks. My dad would take me to the shop to help me choose my roman candles, snow storms, rip raps, sparklers and Catherine wheels. All these magical fireworks were kept safely in a tin box until 'the night' Friends and neighbours pooled their fireworks for one joint display, we cooked baked potatoes and sausages in the fire and ate parkin and treacle toffee. It was all such great fun.
Yea Bonfire Night is loved more than Halloween, it's more of the get-together than you get with Halloween. You definitely had me at Parkin, I'm guessing you're from up north? To add abit extra to what you've put I'd say roasted chestnuts, burgers/hotdogs with fried onions and a chilli that my auntie and uncle made. Also trying not to nearly burn down the fence with a Catherine wheel. I start hearing fireworks around my end at the end of September and gradually more until the night, then gradually goes over November whilst waiting for Crimbo.
Same for me when I was a child in the 60s. I still buy Parkin whenever I see it in a local store. My mum used to make treacle toffee and Parkin for bonfire night. I also had black peas with lots of vinegar.
I have no objections whatsoever to Americans celebrating Halloween. Good luck to them. However, I am angry that this pagan festival has completely replaced Guy Fawkes/Bonfire Night, a British tradition that existed since the 1600s in this country and was still thriving up to the 1980s. As for "Trick or Treat", I much preferred "Penny for the Guy". Personally, I find the whole of Halloween predicated on fictional superstitious rubbish ghosts and goulies. Why do we want to teach children about things that simply don't exist?
Halloween is fundamentality a 'christian' event.....'halloween' is a contraction of 'All Hallows Eve' a christian concept .......It is at the beginning of the observance of Allhallowtide, the time in the liturgical year dedicated to remembering the dead, including saints (hallows), martyrs, and all the faithful departed. The 'original' Festival is 'Samhain' an ancient Celtic festival ..... marking the end of the harvest season and beginning of winter or "darker half" of the year. It is also the Irish language name for November. Celebrations begin on the evening of 31 October, since the Celtic day began and ended at sunset....... not unlike 'Harvest Festival' in the Church of England. Guy Fawkes is based on a plot to murder a bunch of people...
@brianmcdonald1776 "...bunch of people"...erm, the people included the entire membership of the Houses of Commons and Lords and the King of England & Scotland. Quite a significant "bunch of ⁶ would suggest. I don't doubt that the origins of Halloween may go way back in the history of Ireland and may be connected to the people remembering the dead. However, today's tacky pagent has more to do with old horror movies of James Whale. Look, I am perfectly happy with Americans having a party of whatever theme they want, but it has not seriously been a part of English tradition for the past several centuries. ThIs has been copied from American films and T.V. People wandering around the streets looking like they have dropped out of Michael Jackson's Thriller video has little to do with respectful commemoration of those who have passed away.
@@lucylane7397 true never really knew you guys celebrated it longer but the US popularised it into what we know today here England, especially where iam in the south in the 70s 😊
Most of the UK had no tradition of trick or treating. Most people had never heard of it until a little film call ET came out. When i was a child we did have a Halloween party were we made lanterns carved out of turnips. We bobbed for apples. And had toffee apples. A more exciting time for we children was mischievous night the day before, where we went round playing tricks on people. Mainly knocking on door and running away or hidding and jumping out trying to scare people. But ofcourse the big night for us was a few day latter bonfire night. We had a bonfire in someones garden the dads would let off rather pathetic small fireworks, nothing like the loud ones of today, and we ate jacket patatoes with tones of butter and cheese
Great to get a genuine insight into US hallowe’en. It’s not really a thing here but the supermarkets have been pushing it for years so they can sell tat. It’s a tradition that was current in the early days of the US but died off in the UK but blossomed in the US. It’s not that the Zia’s does it better, just that the US does it. There is no expectation that the US commemorates Nov 5th even though it was activity done when the colonies were established. There is 250 years of cultural divergence not a competition to be the same or better just because we share a language. Celebrate the differences.
Halloween. Celtic festival "Samhain" to welcome harvest at the end of summer. All Hallows Eve before All Hallows Day or All Saints Day. Commercialised by the USA. Irish and Scottish origins.
Americans are more likely to dress as non scary things, but the whole point is to dress as something like that because that is the whole point if there is a evil spirit walking around it wont notice you or go after you. When I were a kid in the '90s you'd have one of those plastic masks that got hot and sweaty, a homemade costume maybe, or if lucky a bought one. It's just not that big here, also not commercialised to high heaven like it is in the States. Like another commenter pointed out, it's more about Bonfire Night here. Which was celebrated in the States for awhile, but it had to be banned because many Irish folk lost their lives, even if not Catholic (bad either way). The thing is, Guy Fawkes was from the North of England.
First off. Halloween is NOT a holiday ! It's a CELEBRATION. As is CHRISTMAS, EASTER and NEW YEARS EVE. You should look into the REAL meaning of Halloween and where it started (SCOTLAND ). We used to carve TURNIPS ( NEEPS) as pumpkins were not available in the UK till very recently. What has dressing up like a superhero or film star got to do with Halloween ?
I dont understand the enthusiasm in America for a pagan festival other than the typical American obsession with commercialism. I also don't get how your costumes can be anything whereas here they will tend to be traditionally Halloween themed. When my son was younger we would have parties and decorate the house bùt i never took them trick or treating. Although we do now have pumpkin farms and maize mazes in the UK neither are crops native to the UK so thry are a relatively recengvthing here and we still don't eat pumpkin here.
Yeah, despite all the best efforts of merchandisers, Halloween has never been a big thing here in the UK. For a start, New York (for example) is on the same latitude as Milan. London is on the same latitude as Winnipeg and further north than Chicago. On top of that, most of the UK is north of London even.
Do you think you’d be interested in visiting America at Halloween?
God no, not interested in going to America at all.
I'm in Australia I've only had one kid come to my place for Halloween in the last 10 years, he left crying because I don't do it
😂
Aww…did u not at least have a dollar or some coins for them?
@TheHicksonDiaries hell no, Halloween an American thing so I do anything to not promote it 😊
Until recently in the UK it wasn't really anything special, it was just a chance to read a ghost story to the kids, have some fun apple bobbing . Then it became more americanised as a commercial opportunity. I can't stand it
Awww. It really can be a lot of fun. Please try to reconsider
@@andrewobrien6671 yes it was it was big in Scotland and north east England just not so much in the south. We always went out guising with carved turnips knocking on doors getting pillow cases full of sweets
I have never been trick or treating and my house mate was only allowed to go if she took gifts to give. I carve a pumpkin now and put it on the door step so the little people know they can knock on the door, but it never lasts more than hour
Yeah. It’s almost non existent here. ☹️
Why do you call it a “holiday” though? It’s just one day!!
@@weedle30 ii agree one night not the whole week etc x x
@ at one minute past midnight today …. Dearest hubster rolled his eyes and spoke very firmly saying “thank f Halloween is over for another year….” He’s not a fan .. really…..no he isn’t 😩🥺😦 …..but now I will suffer from his rants and rages about “Christmas TV advertising….” 😱 and this is the absolute honest truth, at two minutes past midnight, just about to turn the telly off….and we were subjected to the first Christmas food ads from Sainsbury’s (my ex employer!) I just watched in disbelief - 53 days of having to watch sliced turkey and roast potatoes on a dinner plate! 😲🤣
T
So is Xmas…
@ two days 😳 - mustn’t forget Boxing Day! But we don’t call those “holiday” days either! A “holiday” to us here, usually means packing a suitcase and your bucket n spade n sand flags and looking forward to more than one or two days n a different place but why is it known as a “holiday”? Just sounds so strange! 🤔🫢
Halloween was never really a big thing in England. It’s only in recent years that trick and treating, dressing up etc has become more popular. You can’t really compare it to America properly, because the main celebration (in England at least) at this time of year is Guy Fawkes Night on 5th November (not sure about the rest of the UK?). In England it supersedes Halloween by a long way.
@@leecal5774 it was always a thing Scotland
Halloween or more correctly 'Samhain' has its origins in the Celtic nations of Scotland and Ireland........it was / is a celebration of the harvest.........'halloween' is a christian religious celebration.
It's originally from Scotland so we have done it for centuries !!
@@enemde3025 It's thousand's of years old originally an Indo-European Pagan/Celtic festival marking the movement on the Earth & was a spiritual event celebrated across the continent. As new peoples emerged such as Germanic, Gauls or Slavic tribes the Celts & their traditions were pushed out & it was forgotten in most of Europe except the Pagan/Celtic strongholds of the British Isles. Ever evolving it would later be absorbed into Christianity as was it's counterpart Easter. The commercialised Halloween we know today is a melting pot of tradition's from Scotland, England & Ireland all blended together in the USA & reimported into Europe although many in the British Isles still celebrate it as the spiritual event it originally evolved from.
Celebrated in Wales too!
I really don't like it.
It is overly commercialised, with "pressure" to dress-up, trick-or-treating, and buy excessive amounts of "treats."
I keep the lights low and ignore the door. 😃😃😃
Don’t mean to pressure you but it can be a a lot of fun-promise!
@TheHicksonDiaries I'm a true Brit... don't like unexpected knocks at the door 😂
As a kid in the 1950s and 60s we sometimes did bob apple and made turnip lanterns on Halloween. We didn't go knocking on people's doors and if we were lucky we got a toffee apple, not that I liked them! Our attentions were focused on Bonfire Night, 5th November. We made a Guy from dad's old clothes and saved our pocket money for fireworks. My dad would take me to the shop to help me choose my roman candles, snow storms, rip raps, sparklers and Catherine wheels. All these magical fireworks were kept safely in a tin box until 'the night' Friends and neighbours pooled their fireworks for one joint display, we cooked baked potatoes and sausages in the fire and ate parkin and treacle toffee. It was all such great fun.
Yea Bonfire Night is loved more than Halloween, it's more of the get-together than you get with Halloween. You definitely had me at Parkin, I'm guessing you're from up north? To add abit extra to what you've put I'd say roasted chestnuts, burgers/hotdogs with fried onions and a chilli that my auntie and uncle made. Also trying not to nearly burn down the fence with a Catherine wheel. I start hearing fireworks around my end at the end of September and gradually more until the night, then gradually goes over November whilst waiting for Crimbo.
Same for me when I was a child in the 60s. I still buy Parkin whenever I see it in a local store. My mum used to make treacle toffee and Parkin for bonfire night. I also had black peas with lots of vinegar.
I have no objections whatsoever to Americans celebrating Halloween. Good luck to them. However, I am angry that this pagan festival has completely replaced Guy Fawkes/Bonfire Night, a British tradition that existed since the 1600s in this country and was still thriving up to the 1980s. As for "Trick or Treat", I much preferred "Penny for the Guy". Personally, I find the whole of Halloween predicated on fictional superstitious rubbish ghosts and goulies. Why do we want to teach children about things that simply don't exist?
Halloween is fundamentality a 'christian' event.....'halloween' is a contraction of 'All Hallows Eve' a christian concept .......It is at the beginning of the observance of Allhallowtide, the time in the liturgical year dedicated to remembering the dead, including saints (hallows), martyrs, and all the faithful departed.
The 'original' Festival is 'Samhain' an ancient Celtic festival ..... marking the end of the harvest season and beginning of winter or "darker half" of the year. It is also the Irish language name for November. Celebrations begin on the evening of 31 October, since the Celtic day began and ended at sunset....... not unlike 'Harvest Festival' in the Church of England.
Guy Fawkes is based on a plot to murder a bunch of people...
@brianmcdonald1776 "...bunch of people"...erm, the people included the entire membership of the Houses of Commons and Lords and the King of England & Scotland. Quite a significant "bunch of ⁶ would suggest. I don't doubt that the origins of Halloween may go way back in the history of Ireland and may be connected to the people remembering the dead. However, today's tacky pagent has more to do with old horror movies of James Whale. Look, I am perfectly happy with Americans having a party of whatever theme they want, but it has not seriously been a part of English tradition for the past several centuries. ThIs has been copied from American films and T.V. People wandering around the streets looking like they have dropped out of Michael Jackson's Thriller video has little to do with respectful commemoration of those who have passed away.
We always celebrated it north east England and Scotland and went door to door it just was never really a southern thing
Agreed!
@@lucylane7397 true never really knew you guys celebrated it longer but the US popularised it into what we know today here England, especially where iam in the south in the 70s 😊
Most of the UK had no tradition of trick or treating. Most people had never heard of it until a little film call ET came out.
When i was a child we did have a Halloween party were we made lanterns carved out of turnips. We bobbed for apples. And had toffee apples. A more exciting time for we children was mischievous night the day before, where we went round playing tricks on people. Mainly knocking on door and running away or hidding and jumping out trying to scare people.
But ofcourse the big night for us was a few day latter bonfire night. We had a bonfire in someones garden the dads would let off rather pathetic small fireworks, nothing like the loud ones of today, and we ate jacket patatoes with tones of butter and cheese
Great to get a genuine insight into US hallowe’en. It’s not really a thing here but the supermarkets have been pushing it for years so they can sell tat. It’s a tradition that was current in the early days of the US but died off in the UK but blossomed in the US. It’s not that the Zia’s does it better, just that the US does it. There is no expectation that the US commemorates Nov 5th even though it was activity done when the colonies were established. There is 250 years of cultural divergence not a competition to be the same or better just because we share a language. Celebrate the differences.
I do celebrate the differences, that’s what the channel is all about
Halloween. Celtic festival "Samhain" to welcome harvest at the end of summer. All Hallows Eve before All Hallows Day or All Saints Day. Commercialised by the USA. Irish and Scottish origins.
I didn’t realise it originated there specifically. Thx
Americans are more likely to dress as non scary things, but the whole point is to dress as something like that because that is the whole point if there is a evil spirit walking around it wont notice you or go after you. When I were a kid in the '90s you'd have one of those plastic masks that got hot and sweaty, a homemade costume maybe, or if lucky a bought one. It's just not that big here, also not commercialised to high heaven like it is in the States. Like another commenter pointed out, it's more about Bonfire Night here. Which was celebrated in the States for awhile, but it had to be banned because many Irish folk lost their lives, even if not Catholic (bad either way). The thing is, Guy Fawkes was from the North of England.
Bonfire night is fun. I enjoy the dressing up of Halloween-and you’d be surprised how creative people get with it
First off. Halloween is NOT a holiday ! It's a CELEBRATION. As is CHRISTMAS, EASTER and NEW YEARS EVE.
You should look into the REAL meaning of Halloween and where it started (SCOTLAND ).
We used to carve TURNIPS ( NEEPS) as pumpkins were not available in the UK till very recently.
What has dressing up like a superhero or film star got to do with Halloween ?
It’s a holiday to me
I dont understand the enthusiasm in America for a pagan festival other than the typical American obsession with commercialism. I also don't get how your costumes can be anything whereas here they will tend to be traditionally Halloween themed. When my son was younger we would have parties and decorate the house bùt i never took them trick or treating.
Although we do now have pumpkin farms and maize mazes in the UK neither are crops native to the UK so thry are a relatively recengvthing here and we still don't eat pumpkin here.
I agree with not eating pumpkin. 🤮
I wish Halloween didn't exist. Fortunately here in Croatia only about 5% of people bother with it.
It started over 1000 years ago in Europe as a Christian celebration
Yeah, despite all the best efforts of merchandisers, Halloween has never been a big thing here in the UK. For a start, New York (for example) is on the same latitude as Milan. London is on the same latitude as Winnipeg and further north than Chicago. On top of that, most of the UK is north of London even.
Not sure I’m following your train of thought
@@TheHicksonDiaries It's normally too cold and wet for 'trick or treating' is my train of thought.