THE SPOOOOKIEST TIME of the year is almost upon us – by now, everyone has their costumes bought (or they’re still in line to get one), the pumpkins carved and the sweets ready for the trick-or-treaters.
So we’re asking you: What’s your favourite memory of Halloween, from your childhood or otherwise?
Here are a few Irish Halloween traditions to send you off down memory lane.
Black bin bags
The basis of any good costume.
Masks like these
Throw on one of these and a black bag and you were ready to trick-or-treat. No faffing about with costume shops and clever concepts.
Fireworks scaremongering
OK, so it’s rightful scaremongering – but Halloween wasn’t Halloween without the Gardaí visiting school with horrific tales of lost fingers and eyes.
Collecting up every bit of wood you could find
This stuff? For an illegal bonfire? Nah sir, you’ve got it all wrong.
Bobbing for apples
And nearly losing your teeth playing snap apple. They didn’t make it easy for us.
Finding the ring in the barmbrack
Then trying to hide it, so you wouldn’t be mercilessly teased about your ‘girlfriend’ or ‘boyfriend’.
Egging
Not that we would ever condone such an activity.
Tormenting the neighbours
The one time of year children are rewarded for being brats.
“Trick or treat, smell my feet, give me something nice to eat, not too big, not too small, just the size of Donegal!”
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