Halloween: How do you celebrate?

[Turtle]

___'Tis the season & all so I started wondering about Halloween outside of the US as well as in. Do you folks in other lands celebrate Halloween? Who? What? Where? When? Why? How?

___I don't know how the trick-r-treating goes here as it's a new neighborhood to me. A lot of costume parties go on locally from children to adults & from churches to strip clubs. I like not to go out, but there is nothing like a scary or funny simple costume to shock the unprepared visitor.

___In years past I have put a speaker by the road & shouted out frightening calls through it with a microphone indoors. So well did that work that I kept it up in a tree & called it the 'Tree God'; I once had 6 old people gathered at the base of the tree in concern as I periodically played a recording of a cat.

___I see a lot of great scary masks which use some of the Hollywodd techniques to nice effect.

___You get the idea; wut you peeps got on da creeps? :hyper:

[GAHD]

Yeah, i sometimes dress up and go out.

Last year I went to a social as The devil; Black 4" horns, subdued brownish white overcoat & greenish brown dress pants & shirt.

This year I'm thinking of going as either The Dread Pirate Roberts (Princess Bride) or as Captain Jack Sparrow (Pirates of the Carribean).

Either way I'm shure it'll be fun.

[rockytriton]

I like to sacrifice some animals and the prance around a fire with a goat mask on.

[Chacmool]

We don't celebrate Halloween in South Africa. Which is just as well, because it's not safe to go out on the streets at night because of the high rate of violent crime. :hyper:

[rockytriton]

it's not safe to go out on the streets at night in a lot of places here in the US too, but when you are with a large crowd of poeple and everyone is outside on their doorsteps, it's not really that big a problem

[Turtle]

___I think Halloween has an interesting historical context, going from Pagan, to Christian, & to secular holiday. The central theme seems to party hardy now because Winter is hard coming on. The gruesome scary aspect - Goat heads and all Rocky :surprise: - bely the real dangers of starvation, illness, & cold that strike even today in Winter. A social purpose is served by it I think inasmuch as it lightens the mood a bit & brings to the fore the commonality of folks before they are at each others throats in earnest about mid-January. Sorry 'bout gougin' yer eye Charlie; just cabin fever. :surprise:

Happy Halloween...or All Hallows' Eve if you prefer. :surprise: :shrug:

[lindagarrette]

October is my favorite month. I surf the web for silly, stupid ecards and send them to all my friends, family, and others who haven't heard form me in a while. Its an excuse to get back in touch. If anyone has a clever source to share, it will be greatly appeciated. I'm looking for a rather goulish fiend sitting in front of the dinner table (on the inside of the card). The outside says "Keeping an eye out for you on holloween." (On the goul's dinner plate is a floating eyeball.) :surprise: