When is trick and treat night?

doubleglaze

Is tonight trick and treat night, or when is it?

ethernet

It's the last day, 31st, of October so you're safe yet!

burstbuckle

ethernet wrote: »

It's the last day, 31st, of October so you're safe yet!

Trick or treat?
When did we become America?

Frynge

doubleglaze wrote: »

Is tonight trick and treat night, or when is it?

Did you not have a childhood?

inisboffin

doubleglaze wrote: »

Is tonight trick and treat night, or when is it?

Trick or Treat replaced (for some!) 'help the Halloween party'/Púca night. That traditionally takes places on Halloween or Samhain (31st - Wednesday this year). It is also the old new years eve.

That being said, as with a lot of things, convenience rears its head so 'Halloween parties' etc are often held on the closest Saturday - tonight - as a lot of people don't work on Sunday.
We'll get some trick or treaters tonight but some Wednesday I'm sure.

biko

Was just chatting to some kids I know about this, apprently Wednesday is when they intend to trick or treating.
So now I know when to stock up on raisins, apples and healthy sweets lol

snubbleste

I shall erect my blackout curtains and disconnect the doorbell.

Fuinseog

doubleglaze wrote: »

Is tonight trick and treat night, or when is it?

we are not in america. its called halloweening.

Fuinseog

burstbuckle wrote: »

Trick or treat?
When did we become America?

when it became acceptable to say 'bathroom' when you mean toilet. i know people who pronounce the word 'route' the american way just becauase they work with computers.

BTW any kids who come to my door and just say 'trick or treat' can f off. if they want something they will recite a poem or sing a song.keep it traditional. why americanise an irish custom?

inisboffin

Fuinseog wrote: »

when it became acceptable to say 'bathroom' when you mean toilet. i know people who pronounce the word 'route' the american way just becauase they work with computers.

BTW any kids who come to my door and just say 'trick or treat' can f off. if they want something they will recite a poem or sing a song.keep it traditional. why americanise an irish custom?

We have lost our language haven't we? Though some are still trying to claim it back If not then let's f*ck toilet for leithras. or door for doras? Let's not be complacent if we exchange one cultural master for another.

Mrs OBumble

Fuinseog wrote: »

we are not in america. its called halloweening.

Ahh, I don't think so:

"Halloweening: The act of a women eating a butterfinger then blowing a male (boyfriend), then while chocolate and peanutbutter is still slathered ..."

ref: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Halloweening

Pandoras Twist

Fuinseog wrote: »

we are not in america. its called halloweening.

Fuinseog wrote: »

when it became acceptable to say 'bathroom' when you mean toilet. i know people who pronounce the word 'route' the american way just becauase they work with computers.

BTW any kids who come to my door and just say 'trick or treat' can f off. if they want something they will recite a poem or sing a song.keep it traditional. why americanise an irish custom?

I'm 25 and it's always been trick or treating to me and everyone else I know

inisboffin

It would be nice to revive the old tradition of getting a poem/song etc instead of a threat! Lol.

It's a great night on The Aran Islands. The dead are allowed to walk with the living in peace, so noone in costume speaks or can be recognised until after midnight. The kids are spooky and silent at the doors and many order their pints on a piece of paper in the pub, so as not to speak!

swiftman

inisboffin wrote: »

It would be nice to revive the old tradition of getting a poem/song etc instead of a threat! Lol.

It's a great night on The Aran Islands. The dead are allowed to walk with the living in peace, so noone in costume speaks or can be recognised until after midnight. The kids are spooky and silent at the doors and many order their pints on a piece of paper in the pub, so as not to speak!

everyone is wearing a mask and in the pub there given a straw with there pint so noboby knows who's sitting next to you, could be family, friends or your emeny sitting quitely next to you.
also if you visit houses, you walk in and sit on the couch, given cans and sweets, watching whatever the family are watching on tv, them having a one way conversation with you.
after awhile just leave, if you see them a few days later, say a smart comment to them and they will know it was you in there house.

ah how i love that place called home

coleria

Halloween is coming and the geese are getting fat,
please put a penny in the old man's hat,
if you havn't got a penny,
a hay penny will do,
havn't got a hay penny,
God Bless You!!:eek:

(by house 4)

Halloween is comin n da eese fa,
please put a ny n na na nana na,
naa naa nana nn na
God Bless You!!
Yay! more monkey nuts and an apple:pac:

confuseddotcom

Frynge wrote: »

Did you not have a childhood?

Trick 'r treating never took off in my local area and other neighbouring areas. It still doesn't take place at the moment. I wouldn't believe it's a big hit in Ireland at all. It has slightly gained some attention in the last few years though with "new-age" families. We did used to have Halloween Parties n' games though and Bonfires and stuff.

inisboffin

confuseddotcom wrote: »

Trick 'r treating never took off in my local area and other neighbouring areas. It still doesn't take place at the moment. I wouldn't believe it's a big hit in Ireland at all. It has slightly gained some attention in the last few years though with "new-age" families. We did used to have Halloween Parties n' games though and Bonfires and stuff.

Everyone I know did the door to door 'help the halloween party' when I was younger. My cousins on the other side of the country did it too. You were often asked to do something like a poem, or parade your costume. Still goes on with all the kids I know, only now they call it trick or treat instead of 'help the halloween party'. All the loot was then taken to a party and we had a bonfire.

biko

biko wrote: »

So now I know when to stock up on raisins, apples and healthy sweets lol

I hated houses like yours when doing the halloween rounds. Walking back down the path to go to the next house "wtf, an apple?!?!"

ahh the memories

inisboffin

Deleted User wrote: »

I hated houses like yours when doing the halloween rounds. Walking back down the path to go to the next house "wtf, an apple?!?!"

ahh the memories

Ha ha! Monkey nuts were better than apples, as long as they had a few coins in there.
Yep, we used to get money (the smart children knew they could exchange this in a building called a shop, at a later date for sweets. To us instant gratification lot, it came a begrudging second place)

fishy fishy

Fuinseog wrote: »

we are not in america. its called halloweening.

no, it's actually called "mumming".

and then people doing the Mumming are called "mummers"

fishy fishy

coleria wrote: »

Halloween is coming and the geese are getting fat,
please put a penny in the old man's hat,
if you havn't got a penny,
a hay penny will do,
havn't got a hay penny,
God Bless You!!:eek:

get up old man and shake your feathers
do not think that we are beggars
we only come once a year
and when we come we want our share.

(by house 4)

Halloween is comin n da eese fa,
please put a ny n na na nana na,
naa naa nana nn na
God Bless You!!
Yay! more monkey nuts and an apple:pac:

you missed a verse

inisboffin

fishy fishy wrote: »

you missed a verse

That second bit is in a whole different rhythm, I've never heard it either!:D
I suspect that everywhere adds their own little local bits to a lot of these chants.

I've heard of people calling them mummers on Oiche Shamhna alright, but it's a word I would associate more with St Stephens' day and the wren boys. Mummers is a broad term for folk actors and plays though, so you could get them at any time of the year.

Iwannahurl

fishy fishy wrote: »

you missed a verse

And it's "Christmas is coming..."

inisboffin

Iwannahurl wrote: »

And it's "Christmas is coming..."

Ha ha! It's been both apparently. And Halloween was sometimes referred to as 'The Irish Christmas' as we made such a big deal of it.

inisboffin

And this is interesting:

Hogmanay Guising


" A popular Scottish Hogmanay guising song was:

Rise up, guid wife, an' shake your feathers,
Dinna think that we are beggars:
We are bairns come out to play,
Get up and gie's our Hogmanay!"

Similar enough to the 'missing' Halloween one. People are always borrowing bits from one song to make another through, especially kids (think 'Jesus Christ, Superstar..he wears frilly...etc! lol! )

fishy fishy

well, I think we can all agree it's a lot more fun and interesting than plain old
"trick or treat".

how boring is that.

NegativeCreep

burstbuckle wrote: »

Trick or treat?
When did we become America?

I've called it that since I was tiny.
What do you call it?

UrbanSea

confuseddotcom wrote: »

Trick 'r treating never took off in my local area and other neighbouring areas. It still doesn't take place at the moment. I wouldn't believe it's a big hit in Ireland at all. It has slightly gained some attention in the last few years though with "new-age" families. We did used to have Halloween Parties n' games though and Bonfires and stuff.

Where did you live,Mars?

In all seriousness I thought everyone trick or treated. And it's not new-age families, even my parents did it when they were young.


And who doesn't call it trick or treating?

Fuinseog

UrbanSea wrote: »

Where did you live,Mars?

In all seriousness I thought everyone trick or treated. And it's not new-age families, even my parents did it when they were young.


And who doesn't call it trick or treating?

I guess it depends on how much you are in touch with local tradition or how much you are influenced by foreign popular culture. BTW is there a halloween parade in Galway tomorrow night?

Iwannahurl

NegativeCreep wrote: »

I've called it that since I was tiny.
What do you call it?

Of course, for many people it's "Holloween" apparently...

Stench Blossoms

I've always gone 'trick or treating'.

When times were tough I went out dressed in a black bag.