How does everyone here enjoy Halloween?
 

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For those who do celebrate it, how does everyone here enjoy Halloween?
Well, this is me in my costume.

My friends think I cannot cosplay, well this should show them. I'm going to the school dance as Mr 47 this year, to celebrate the release of the new Hitman game early this November.

Halloween's fun. My eldest is going trick-or-treating for the first time. We made her a ladybug costume. Cute as a button.

I have a zero degree sleeping bag ... I am under the covers by 7pm

I hate demons, devils, spooks, ghost, zombies, shaking bones or even big bird coming to my door.

Turn out the lights the parties over ... all good things must come to an end :o

These days I just make some popcorn and put in a movie.

I spend Halloween returning the Karma (and cavities) I got trick or treating as a kid. Might be swamped out by a nor-easter this time though if Sandy keeps on a westerly track.

I usually watch a movie or something.

I celebrate Samhain in the company of a group of friends, with a small ritual for the dead.

I then cast left over fruit from our trees into the hedgerows.

After that we invite the dead to supper with lanterns to guide the way and get totally hammered:rock:

All around a fire to keep as warm where we play 'hunt the baked tattie' which ends with burnt fingers all round.:yeah:

Cheers

Gary

Having been in town yesterday, I think it is celebrated by buying buying buying.

It even has no traditional cultural basis in germany. Just twenty years ago, Halloween had the odor and exotic flair from America on it.

The more Halloween has netered Germany, and elementary schools, another tradition that is more typical for Germany, has been lost: Laternenumzüge (lantern procession) done by the very young ones (elementary school). Has become very rare.

Wotcha Skybird

I just found this... How Accurate is it in regards to Germany?

http://www.germanculture.com.ua/libr.../aa102600a.htm

Cheers

Gary

Well, I don't so much celebrate as prepare for Haloween by getting the boulders and boiling oil ready on the battlements of "Aces Towers" to repel any trick or treeters foolish enough to approach our front door :D.

We always had some of that, but mostly in regional traditions and usually not on such a big display practiced like santa claus, easterbunnies, or now the commercial Halloween with children dressing up and doing trick-or-treat and all that. This format is relatively new to Germany, and it has become a big boom indeed. Especially commercially.

In Sweden celebrated it especially hard rock, mostly young people that drive around with rubber legs,:O:

Heathen holliday!:woot:

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Just in case someone with some eggs arrive.... :hmmm:

Doors locked blinds drawn and on occasion, batteries taken out of bell receiver.