to think that "trick or treating" is an American thing and in my day it was called guising?

[BollocksToThis]

Well, am I?

Nope, I'm with you. I'm Scottish though - are you?

Yep, I agree, but am also Scottish.

Yes - Scottish here as well. We had to "do a turn" ie sing a song, tell a joke etc before you were given anything

YANBU - guising here too. Times have changed though, which is a good thing imo, as we don't have to hollow out a rock solid turnip for a lantern, or put up with the hideous smell of burning neeps....

The end result is the same - get dressed up, go out round your friends and neighbours houses, tell a joke, get some sweets. Seems OK to me. I know that there are plenty of people who don't like it, but our street always has a lovely time and I count myself very lucky

It was guising when I was little too (also Scottish)

and iirc from something I read, it was Scottich immigrants that took guising to America where it morphed into trick or treating...and now has come back over here!!

Scottich???? ye ken whit ah mean!!

it was called trick or treating in Ireland in the mid 70's (only noticeable differences are the pumpkin Vs turnip, and the sheer amount of treats given out!)

its always been trick or treating where i am, and i am as old as the hills

Yes, am Scottish. Mmmm, the niff of singed neeps :)

I'm Scottish too and spent Friday night carving a neep (and eating the innards raw - mmm!). My family/workmates still say guising more consistently than trick or treating.

Scottish here too,and I've always known it as trick or treating.

We still say guising here and we are Scottish. My children say T&T too right enough.

Ah, the guisers amongst us must be very old then...

I remember my dad using a chisel to hollow out 2 turnips for my sister and I. The air was usually blue by the time he'd finished!

Ahem

knickknack i remember turnips too

I am not old [scowlscowl]

Yanbu

YADNBU!!

It was guising for me when I was young. We used to make up songs, tell jokes etc and ~I remember my Mum making a turnip lantern!

At the risk of sounding ancient I'm 34 - I don't remember seeing pumpkins in the shops when I was a child and yes I am Scottish!

Yanbu! It was guising when I was wee too. I remember spending weeks preparing a comedy dance routine with my friend while her sister learned a massive poem. It was loads of fun. I am 34 btw. Hope that doesn't count as very old!

I used to make my own costume - none of this off the peg nonsense. One year (again, just showing how Very Old I am) I went out as a rubik cube that I'd made from a large cardboard box. I managed to get stuck in the doorway of someone's house, and had to be freed by the dad and older brother who was in the year above me at school. Oh the shame

Yes, guising here too. And turnip lanterns. They. Are. Not. Swedes!

Guisin
and got sore hand from dea'in the tumpshie

does any ither yin o yeas go round the windaes wi the tumpshie tae ward oaff the evul spiruts?