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Here there is no organised Halloween-beyond the shops!
There used to be low key celebrations in the country here, carved pumpkins with maybe a few games for children-bobbing for apples etc but that was it-there was no trick or treating -and the Church even disapproved of this small recognition of a pagan festival in some parts of the country!!
Some children don't even know what Halloween is all about!! I have just returned in the last hour from town- sending Gor a get well card-NOTHING else would get me into town on any Saturday!! (Horrible! )
When I returned, there was group of children on the bus- 7-11 age range I would estimate- in Halloween costumes etc. One elderly passenger asked them if they knew what Halloween was about. Answers? "Ghosts" and "Harry Potter"!

I see modern Halloween as just a part of the slow creep of an all enveloping American culture here -there is nothing wrong with American culture so long as it is confined, in general, to where it should be -the USA- as like those other US imports here, the signal crayfish and grey squirrel, it has driven what was left of the traditionally native to the brink of extinction.