This stems from the radio question thread for today. What is the way Halloween is celebrated in other countries besides the US?
-
Too many ads? Join our community of cat lovers now to reduce ads by 90%! Click here to join for free!
Halloween traditions in other countries.
- Thread starter kittylover4ever
- Start Date
We go trick or treating, have halloween parties - the usual stuff! Some people decorate their houses, carve pumpkins etc!
Originally Posted by captiva
Since Indiana is not in the United States ( according to Susie), .... We also celebrate by carving pumpkins and going trick-or-treating.
Halloween appears to be an "Anglo-Saxon" tradition (but let's not forget Mexico and its All Souls'/All Saints' Day traditions). However, it has really caught on in Germany over the past decade or so, primarily because retailers exploit it. Thanksgiving Day in its American form is obviously not celebrated here, so retailers seemed to be on the lookout for something to fill the gap between May Day and Christmas. Formerly, chocolate Easter Bunnies were soon replaced by chocolate Santas on the shelves. Halloween fit the bill. Halloween parties, with people in costumes, are all the rage, but trick or treating is limited. I live in a very small town (population 9,500+), and many people in the neighborhood are aware that I'm an American, so I get some little visitors on Halloween who are just thrilled to show off their costumes and get some candy. Picture a grinning 5-year-old whose only English words are, "Hi! Trick or treat"! One custom that has really caught on here is making jack o' lanterns.
Originally Posted by captiva
Since Indiana is not in the United States ( according to Susie), .... We also celebrate by carving pumpkins and going trick-or-treating.
Aw! That sounds like it would be adorable.
- Thread Starter Thread Starter
- #10
Originally Posted by captiva
Since Indiana is not in the United States ( according to Susie), .... We also celebrate by carving pumpkins and going trick-or-treating.
Here in Canada we do all the same traditional stuff. Getting dressed up, decorating our houses (I go overboard), carving pumpkins...all that good stuff. Although up here the kids costumes have to be made big enough for their snowsuits and boots to fit underneath
every year the jewish school infront of my house would line up their kids in costumes and walk through the main streets with lit pumpkins and lights, (i just found out recently they were a jewish american school.
This year after moving into a little town i am wondering if there will be any kiddies dressing up and ringing my door bell for chocolate.
I will buy some to put away..
This year after moving into a little town i am wondering if there will be any kiddies dressing up and ringing my door bell for chocolate.
I will buy some to put away..
Did someone move Indiana when I wasnt looking? What is keeping Ohio and Illinois seperated now? Or did Michigan invade Indiana? Oh I know what happened Canada launched an amphibious assualt down Lake Michigan and they conquered Indiana. Why though???
I'm Hungarian and we did not have halloween there. When I was young we lived in Sweden and I don't remember anything about it.(but I was young, so maybe i remember wrong) But in Hungary definately no halloween. I saw it in movies though and always thought it was neat. Then when we came to Canada I got to see it
Too old to trick or treat, but hand out candy to children every year...
Hee hee! Susie started a poll of asking what states in the US were represented. She neglected to include Indiana. The Hoosiers on the forum will probably never let her forget it!
early on in the evening we have small kids all dressed up (with parents) coming to our place for small treats,which i dont mind doing,but what i dont like is gangs of teenagers asking for treats and if u had run out they bombard the house with eggs and flour and other nastys
but with the bigger kids its more intimadation than fun
- Thread Starter Thread Starter
- #20
If memory serves me right,
, I think I DID include Indiana on the original poll, but I think either Jan or Chris took it off to make me look bad!
