When I was a child, we made very little of Halloween, but now the shops fill up with masks, witchy outfits, pumpkins and fake skeletons weeks in advance.
The younger children go round from house to house demanding ‘trick or treat’ – but what is really weird, in the past decade especially, is that it is not just children who are celebrating.
Men and women in their twenties and even thirties prepare for tonight’s festivities weeks in advance, making or buying costumes, kitting themselves out as vampires or Frankenstein’s monsters.
What’s going on? The word Halloween is a contraction of ‘All Hallows’ Eve’,
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