To ask why people celebrate Halloween

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This is absolutely not a goady post but I just don't get Halloween at all. It seems like a celebration of everything that is horrible. Why do people do it?

I don't know why I should educate myself on something I have never come across.

What a small minded attitude.

I am keen to learn about all sorts of things I have never experienced..

Antarctica. Ancient civilizations. Other galaxies. Indiginous cultures. Leopards. Sami music. Ayres rock.

I take it you don't accept the existence of any of these things because they are not in front of your nose.

I spent half an hour yesterday reading about the Reformation across Europe as I really knew nothing about it beyond John Knox & Scottish Reformation.

Life, to me, is infinitely fascinating. I always want to educate myself!

Late to this thread. I grew up in London in the 80's my mum is Welsh (Catholic) we celebrated Halloween as she did as a girl. As there have said it's Celtic

Oliversmumsarmy you are hilarious! Every child in Ireland learns about Halloween every year in school for about a month...and learns all the history and vocabulary surrounding "Oiche Samhain" and they make decorations and masks and read the stories about Halloween from our ANCIENT Celtic tradition! They've been doing that since my granny was in school. It is so funny, and weird, when someone who isn't Irish tells a whole country of Irish people what we don't do

We even have a national bank holiday at Halloween!!!!

Even the 5th class (year 6?) Irish textbook was called "Tine Cnámh" - "bonfire" - in my day and that was after one of a series of Halloween related stories in it.

There are things I don’t know about and don’t care to find out more about. I will be quite happy to go to my grave knowing nothing about Polka music for example. But I then wouldn’t go onto a thread about polka music and say it’s bollocks and nobody actually listens to it. Either find out about something or shut up.

You can keep your pumpkins and neeps we do watermelons. Much easier.

Going to get shiny red apples next year to go with my witches outfit.

Even the scary teenagers who told me they were dressed as thugs the cheeky things took just one sweet and said thank you.

An excellent evening.

East Midlands here, and there were plenty of groups of kids going round on Halloween, clearly organised with adults. I didn't put a pumpkin out so we didn't have knockers, but I've just come out of a 3 decade relationship with someone who was very much Bah Humbug about both this and Christmas, he'd have not bothered with any Christmas decorations/tree, etc, if I hadn't pushed (and hard). So we're still adjusting to a new life.

The DCs and I (teens) have decided we are going to do a pumpkin and have sweets ready next year, they do like the idea of handing them out to the little ones.