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When I was in elementary school in the U.S., they made us dress up in our Halloween costumes and we would all parade around the school building in our costumes. So that was a Halloween parade of sorts.
That was usually a fail. We had traditional fair activities like apple dunking, where you were required to bite and retrieve an apple from a water tank. Traditional harvest festival stuff.
Just because it's "over the top" doesn't mean it isnt homemade. My brother and I made spooky stuff from scratch when we were to old to trick or treat. My favorite was a metal wire that went from one tree to another and we made a ghost out of a white sheet and stuffed the head with paper and tied it off. We then put it on the wire and made a pulley system for it.
Parade at school on Halloween. Let's you ask who the kids are who are taking candy so you meet all kids in neighborhood as an adult. So you can associate a name with a face. Kids can see that lots of adults in neighborhood are regular people. Parents can meet neighbors when their kids get candy. Kids learn to say thank you when they get candy. Not just scary costumes lots of princesses, sports figures, tv characters, cartoon characters .
Ich bin auch ein Angsthase und habe für Horror gar nichts übrig, für Grusel nur wohldosiert zusammen mit Humor. Die Munsters sind für mich das höchste der Gefühle.
@Zoom Ich habe in meinem ganzen Leben nur einen einzigen Horrorfilm gesehen, das war als Teenager in England mit Freunden irgendein Friday 13th. Den fand ich tatsächlich auch langweilig, weil er furchtbar vorhersehbar war. Aber mir gibt das so gar nichts - und ich möchte keinen ekligen, blutigen Kram anschauen, auch, wenn man deutlich sieht, dass alles nur fake ist. Mich belasten eher Filme mit Vampiren, Werwölfen und sowas, das knüpft an Kindheitsängste an. Aber auch Horrorbabies, -puppen, -clowns... möchte ich nicht kennenlernen. Auf der Welt gibt es genug realen Horror, das finde ich belastend genug.
Ich kann mich erinnern, dass wir in meiner Kindheit Kürbisgeister geschnitzt haben. Das war in den 70er Jahren, lange bevor Halloween bei uns bekannt und populär geworden ist. Manchmal haben wir auch Geister aus Zuckerrüben geschnitzt. Meine Großeltern hatten ein Kürbisfeld in ihrem Garten, aber im Allgemeinen waren Kürbisse damals noch nicht so beliebt und verbreitet wie heute.
When I was a kid, there was no Halloween. There was St. Martin's day though, when we took our (often self-built in the week prior) lanterns out at night and walked through the village, singing St. Martin's and lantern songs...
When I was a child, an this was before 1960, some larger cities had parades where children marched in their costumes. I only remember seeing this once as a very small child. Apparently something called 'ragamuffin day' existed in places like NYC, but this took place around Thanksgiving. One of my older aunts confused Halloween and Ragamuffin day, this tradition must have died out before WWII.
The biggest difference that I noticed were the costumes. Where I grew up in Germany people would always dress up as something scary, like witches, monsters, ghosts, etc. And where I lived in the U.S. people wore all kinds of costumes. Plus I think teens in Germany sometimes tend to think of Halloween as an event to get drunk. When I was a child and teen I celebrated Halloween a few times. I remember being dressed as a witch once and I think I dressed up as a ghost for my first Halloween. For my first Halloween we had a big sleepover party at my house and I remember some of my friends would eat pretty much all of our candy (like all the candy the whole group got) during the night. When I was in the U.S. when I was 17, me and my host sister took my little host brother trick or treating. I was dressed up as French maid but I was still under the impression that the costume had to spooky. By coincidence we knocked at my chemistry teachers' house and he said something like "You look like some German killer French maid" (German because he knew I was an exchange student from Germany) and I think that explains pretty much how I looked. And my host brother wore one of those suits that you blow up so he looked like a much overweighted little lady in a bikini.
The first 5 years I lived in the US I did live in a super small town in Missouri and they did have a huge parade every year. Now I am in a larger town in Georgia were they have one as well.
The most intrguing thing I found for my only US Halloween back then was a screaming doormat. If you stepped onto it, it would scream and howl to scare the one standing on it. I really liked that... and the Halloween party in Greenwich in Washington I went to. The Halloween festivities in the neighborhood with the kids very really adorable.
ET: im Film nutzen die Kinder das Süßigkeitensammeln um ET mit seiner Maschine, mit der er Kontakt aufnehmen will (nach Hause telefonieren), an Halloween um ihn auf eine Anhöhe zu bringen. Er gibt sich als Gertie (Drew Barrymore) aus, die als Gespenst losziehen will. Lustig ist dabei, dass ein Kind als Yoda verkleidet von ET als anderer Außerirdischer erkannt wird und umgehend diesen versucht zu verfolgen...
Here in my state, we have a house/family that always has lots and lots of pumpkins for Halloween. naturally called 'the pumpkin house'...they have hundreds, each with a different carving. it's pretty cool, we've had people in from other states just to come to the pumpkin house.
@@WantedAdventure the guy that owns it used to do it all by himself back in 78 but over time, i think the family gets help from the community and other volunteers. They are up to 3,000 pumpkins now. here's a link with more information. www.atlasobscura.com/places/kenovas-pumpkin-house
As a child i spend a lot of holidays in the north of germany (i am from the west) and i did “Rummelpott“ once, kind of a northern Karneval/halloween: Rummelpottlaufen ist ein in Norddeutschland und in Nordschleswig verbreiteter Heischebrauch, bei dem am frühen Silvesterabend Kinder geschminkt und verkleidet in Gruppen mit einem Rummelpott von Haustür zu Haustür gehen und charakteristische Rummelpottlieder singen oder Reime aufsagen. (wikipedia)
I think younger generations tend to know more about the pagan roots of halloween. ( At least in the circles of friends I associate with). However my when I speak to ppl my parents age And older they only seem to know it as a commercial holiday
@AllisonBlack I agree. I am younger and happen to know more of the pagan roots of Halloween(Samhain) and tend to celebrate it more in the pagan ways. Most people where I live only know the commercial Halloween. While friends and I mostly celebrate Samhain.
@@WantedAdventure I'm 19 and of course the carving of the pumpkins comes.from Irish and Scottish immigrants brought that tradition when they carved turnips not pumpkins. The celtics believed in the spirt world and the living world well the veil was at its lowest. Dressing up was meant to hide us from the spirits. I am sure there are German traditions the German culture is a big influnce on America and sort English itself.
When I was a kid, we always went trick or treating. So I don't think it's that new and I also lived in a small village. I think it's more a regional thing, in some parts of Germany it's far more common than in others.
I loove Halloween, but they don't make a big deal about it here in the UK either. I always decorate and dress up anyway, my English husband thinks it's another cute quirk that makes his American wife happy, but he doesn't totally get it.
We celebrated Halloween as a kid in England, but Trick or Treat was an American thing. Here, in North Germany, we don't really do Halloween so much as Mattemänchen or Mattännken, that is when all of the kids come round on the 10th November and sing a song to get some candy. www.noz.de/lokales/bramsche/artikel/628094/warum-feiern-die-bramscher-mattemannken
@@WantedAdventure Kids and adults together. All the marching bands in the county would march and a lot of local businesses would make fairly elaborate floats and throw candy (really great advertising opportunity! 😏). Everybody would be in costume. We even had local unicycle, baton twirling, and martial arts clubs that would display their skills in the parade.
Hi Dana, I'm from Ireland, where Halloween is actually originally from. We totally dressed up every year and went trick or treating, people didn't really decorate the houses though, but we got lots of sweets. Samhain(pronounced sow-ahn) is an Irish word. It means November and is originally a pagan tradition celebrating the end of the harvest season, the bright part of the year entering kinda winter/dark part of the year. Its known to be the night where the air is thinnest between the spirit and human world, people dressed up kinda to confuse the spirits. We also nowadays still have big bonfires where everyone gathers round on Halloween to celebrate and there are often fireworks (even though they aren't legal in Ireland 😆) we would make our costumes or adapt something we had....some people just wore a black sacks and a mask, I loved creating the outfit though, the pumpkin in American was also apparently brought over by the Irish as they used to carve out turnips. But found pumpkins to be easier and available when they fled to America. Nowadays people still create costumes but lots buy ready made ones too and pumpkins are a relatively new reaintroduction to Ireland, it's fun..my nephew loves pumpkins. And last but not least, parades are a thing, they can be kinda cool but I have only been to one...I honestly haven't been to one, it was more about sparklers, trick or treating and the bonfire for me 🎃🍁😁☠️🕷️🕸️
I'm in Athens, GA and we have a huge Halloween parade called the Wild Rumpus every year. People in costumes march the parade route and don't need tickets or to register or anything. It's amazing how detailed some people's costumes are. Definitely missing it this year :(
I think for those of us who grew up in Christian environments, we heard the "Halloween is Pagan/Satanic!" thing. At least a little, but others heard that way too often. Just part of growing up during the USA's satanic panic time. Also did anyone else get the scary tiny comic religious tracts instead of candy? Or other not-as-cool things, like toothpaste and floss and stuff?
Ich habe meine Familie vor einiger Zeit dazu mal befragt, meine Eltern kannten Halloween gar nicht, mein Großvater hat das aber als Kind wohl gefeiert. Er hat erzählt, wie sie damals im stockdunklen Dorf mit Kürbislaternen umhergelaufen sind, an Fenster klopfend Leute erschreckt und Süßigkeiten gesammelt haben. (das muss so um 1940 herum gewesen sein.) Meine Eltern haben das wie gesagt nie gefeiert und ich habe das auch erst als Jugendlicher kennengelernt, als das aus den USA wieder herüberkam. Seitdem gibt es jedes Jahr ein wenig Deko, ein wenig Naschkram für die Nachbarskinder und vielleicht einen gemütlichen Abend mit Freunden, aber nichts allzu aufwendiges.
The city of Anoka, Minnesota which is a northwestern suburb of Minneapolis, MN. Has a Halloween parade every year for over a hundred years. Anoka is called the Halloween capital of the world. Because of covid 19 this year is probably canceled.
I used to live in a tiny village in Lower Saxony, and the kids in that village used to really celebrate Halloween, dressing up, going trick or treating, the whole nine yards. Until I was in third grade, then we were forbidden from going trick or treating because the local teenagers couldn't behave. The previous year, some teens from the neighbourhood lathered up the doorstep of an elderly couple with liquid soap, and the next morning, when the wife came out to get the newspaper, she fell and broke her hip.
Samhain is pronounced "Sow-in". Old Irish word. And yes. I grew up knowing about Samhain in the US. Now that I'm an adult, I try to keep in touch with my Scottish roots, carving a turnip as well as pumpkins to keep away evil spirits, making soul cakes to leave out for the dead, and "guising" (dressing up to confuse evil spirits). We also watch traditional spooky movies together, tell ghost stories and eat lots of sweets.
I loooooove Halloween!! I don't buy a lot of stuff or go to parties, but it's all tied up with fall for me, and I love the pumpkin stuff, apple cider, Halloween books and movies (but not too scary), and I party with my kids at home every year. The only better time of year is Christmas (which I'll start celebrating on November 1 😂).
I love halloween so much. I've always loved it, my mom always hated it. My mom always hated decorating in general when I was younger, but now she's super excited about holidays again and I think she likes halloween a bit now. I know a lot of holidays started as Pagan celebrations, including Christmas, and I do buy into the American commercialism while still appreciating the traditions of it.
I think Halloween is whatever you make of it. As a child in the US I went door-to-door trick-or-treating then when I got older I passed out candy to the kids. These days I mainly just watch Horror movies. BTW, Hello Stefan! :)
Not quite. On Halloween they don't really go round with lanterns or St. Marin's wouldn't strike me for trick or treating. In my hometown in Hessen we used to dress up as little Santas on 6th of December and go from house to house, make a little saying and then get some sweets, nuts, an Orange on Mandarin (However there was no 'threat' of tricking people if we didn't get any sweets.)
I went trick or treating exactly one time in Germany as a kid. It was in the "suburbs" where my aunt lived and she took me and my cousin trick or treating. Some people even gave us candy, but some didn't even open the door and others apologized for not having candy in the house. My cousin and I didn't like that evening much xD That was also the only time I dressed up for Halloween as a kid. As an adult I went to several Halloween Parties in costume though. But always a creepy costume!^^
I really like Halloween. We always celebrated it. I used to have sleep overs with some friends at halloween and watch movies (not necessarily scary movies) and it was just fun. We would also sometimes dress up (usually as witches or ghosts) and when I was as kid (about 15-20 years ago) I would also do trick or treating with my brothers. But I've never been to a big Halloween Party. And by the way - I am from a super small village in Bavaria :) After I finished school I moved to a bigger town and here Halloween is not a thing at all, which is kind of weird to me. As I got older I also learned about the pagan origins of Halloween and the connection to Allerheiligen and that made me love it even more. I also learned a lot about pagan origins of other Holidays and I think that's definitelty something that should be talked about more.
I'm not really into Halloween but most people I know are. I would argue that rather than things being "competitive" the over the top productions that people put on are really for the enjoyment of others. I know people who really do up their homes for holidays not to one up the neighbors but for their happiness.
I'm 37 and NOT American, but I can't imagine my life without Halloween. I have always celebrated and I always regret not being able to dress up and going around asking "Trick or treat?" as a kid. I would have been looked as a weirdo
Paisano's Roost Farm in Southern New Mexico: El Dia de Los Muertos in Mesilla unfortunately cancelled this year. Cemetery clean up/spruce up. Our traditions include Pumpkin carving, stuffed mushroom brains and mummy fingers (hot dogs wrapped in croissants). I bake a jack-o-lantern cake that occasionally looks funny due to my imbibing in an adult beverage. Our old neighborhood in Alamogordo was the preferred trick-or-treating destination due only having two entry points. I gave out 134 pencils one year.
I once made a slideshow to run in the background for a Halloween party that I am still pretty proud of. It consisted of very dark pieces of art mainly of a polish artist that later killed himself. I put two sentence horror stories on top of the artworks. It was probably almost too dark in the end but every now and then I put some oldschoold 'spooky' Disney video in it to lighten it up. Was a cool evening. I really like dressing up and partying that way while putting on a persona for example. All that kids related stuff is not important to me.
I stopped celebrating Halloween for a long time. When I was a kid Halloween was a favorite of mine but over the years it’s been 😒. I’m more into Christmas and that’s about it.
One of my favorite Halloween related customs from when I grew up in the early 1960’s in Reading PA, was what we called “raiding”. We took dried field corn or pretty colored “Indian corn” off-the-cob, and after dark, threw a handful at our neighbor’s big front picture windows in an attempt to scare them. Most people just ignored us. But the best was when someone came out and yelled and we had to run and hide. The next afternoon,, we’d sneak up on the neighbors’ front porches and collected the corn to be thrown again that night. Was this a custom for anyone else? Or were we just little delinquents?
I like Halloween because it is the only holiday where an adult population of a country is motivated to spend an inordinate amount of time and money to decorate and hand out candy to waves of strange children..lol
Until I met some Europeans in the US for university, as an American aware that most of our holidays seem to come from immigrants and most of our early immigrants/colonists were Europeans I just assumed Halloween was celebrated there only to find out that it’s not celebrated in much of Europe and where it is, it’s not as big a thing as in the US. As my grandparents and parents have a love of history and geography, they often shared stories about the origins of things like holidays, etc. That info was generally shared at some point in the season. I’ve never been fond of Halloween myself (though I have a cousin whose birthday is October 31). Mostly I’m not fond of scary things, so the parts of Halloween I enjoy tend to be the more fun and less scary aspects. Normally in my city of 50,000 in northern Oklahoma, there’s lots of things to do throughout the month for kids and adults. There are parties held by neighbors, friends, businesses, etc that you go to of course. The local schools take the kids to one of the local pumpkin patches to let the kids pick out pumpkins which they then get to carve at school (with assistance/supervision by the teachers). Some schools take the kids to the nearby Daze-in-a-Maze...a giant corn maze made every year by a local farm family. The schools all have their carnivals during October as well so lots of games and prizes. At the school I went to and my niece now goes to (a rural school) the carnival includes a crowning of each grade group. Each grade T1-12th sells raffle tickets from the start of October until the day of the carnival (it’s money raised for the class’s end of the school year trip to OKC to do something fun like visit an amusement park, the zoo, etc). Grades T1-3, 4-6, 7-9, and 10-12 are grouped together to compete against each other. The Pre-K and Kindergarten kids participate as crown bearers and flower maidens. Each class nominates one boy and one girl to represent them. The class in each group that sells the most raffle tickets has their representatives crowned: T1-3 crowned mini-prince and mini-princess, 4-6 crowned mini-king and mini-queen, 7-9 crowned prince and princess, 10-12 crowned king and queen. It’s a lot of fun. Of course Homecoming is in October, too, so that’s the week of crazy school spirit challenges followed by the big football game and a dance afterwards. In my city a lot of the churches hold carnivals or trick-or-treating events. One big church you line up out front and you follow a path through the church stopping at different points getting candy and at the end you are in their gymnasium and they have stage shows going on, food to eat, games to play, etc. It’s completely free. Several do the trunk-or-treat where the members park their cars in the parking lot along a pattern and kids can walk along and get candy that the members hand out while sitting at or on their vehicles. Downtown at the courthouse square there’s booths from various local businesses and organizations that have games, hand out candy, there’s costume contests in different age groups, live music, hayrides, and sometimes a costume parade with everyone that wants to participate (one year they even had fireworks) [there is a similar event on Black Friday that kicks off the start of Christmas that always ends with fireworks]. There’s two big events at two of the big city parks. One has live music, booths from organizations that hand out candy, there’s costume contests in different themes (scary, funny, cute, etc), games, and other fun. The other one is similar except that that park has a mini-amusement park run by a local charity group and they open up the rides (there’s a train that goes around the park, a ferris wheel, a carousel, and two little spin rides for really young kids...one with the seats designed to look like jet planes and the other with seats designed to look like cars)...sometimes the owners of the mini-golf place next door to the park will open up, too. Then there’s actual trick-or-treating door-to-door on Halloween evening itself. Lots of people decorate their homes (some of my friends even have Halloween trees they set up in their front room windows...like a Christmas tree but usually either black/purple/white/orange and decorated with Halloween themed decorations and usually orange and purple lights). In some parts of the city people hand out money instead of candy. In the neighborhood I grew up in (and my mom still lives in), there’s one house where the entire yard is decorated and there’s a sign as to where to enter. As you follow the decorated path and get to see all the decorations, there are points along the way where the family members are dressed up and give you candy....baby, kids, teens, adults doesn’t matter your age you’re getting candy! It’s usually a lot of fun and you can definitely tell Halloween is their favorite holiday. It’s hard not to get in the spirit visiting their house and they do try to make sure to not be too scary with the decor and costumes. One year a friend of mine took his five kids and one of them was scared to enter because of one of the decorations. My friend said one of the family members took the kid’s hand and let him go up to the “scary” decoration and hit it to “show that mean decoration it can’t stop you from getting candy” is what the person told him. It worked, according to my friend, because afterwards his kiddos didn’t want to leave those folks yard! Last year I had to work on Halloween and the store I worked at handed out candy and had a costume contest (if you came in the store in costume you automatically got entered into a raffle to win prizes...didn’t even have to present to win we called the winners!) My favorite Halloween movie to watch is Hocus Pocus. My niece’s favorite is The Nightmare Before Christmas. Halloween is my niece’s favorite holiday. She loves making her own costumes. Her and her friends often do theme costumes. For example, one year each of them decided to go as a character from the tv show Riverdale. My niece went as Jughead (which finding pieces to make that costume took us a good portion of the year....thankfully she and her friends come up with their ideas in like May so makes it great to have the time to look for what’s needed). Actually it’s not uncommon here for people to make their own costumes. Three years ago when our city held its first comic-con, I wasn’t as surprised as some at the number of cosplayers with their own-made costumes. We may not be a parade-float making city, but geesh to people like making costumes!!!!! Loved this video!!! Thanks for making it!!!
Bei uns gab es früher die deutsche Halloween Tradition des "Rübengeisterns". Hier höhlt man Futterrüben aus und schnitzt Gesichter rein, wie man es auch mit Kürbissen macht. Und dann läuft man mit diesen Rübengeistern von Haus zu Haus und sammelt Süßigkeiten etc. Aber ohne Verkleidung. Mittlerweile hat sich das aber mit dem amerikanischen Halloween vermischt oder wurde ganz abgelöst.
Als Kind, bin in 1989 in Rumänien geboren, hatten wir kein Halloween gefeiert. Aber wir hatten so einen Brauch, ungarischer Brauch, und zwar wenn ein Schwein in der Familien geschlachtet wurde, haben die Familienmitglieder abends zusammen gegessen. Während des Essens kamen aus der Nachbarschaft verkleidete Menschen, so dass wir Kinder sie nicht erkennen könnten, ein bisschen auch wie "Monster" aussehend (keine Halloween Kostume, sondern Lumpen), die mit einem Topf und mit einem Holzlöffel viel Lärm machten. Dann musste die Frau des Hauses in diese Töpfe Essen reintun ( gebratenes Wurst, Kohlruladen, etc). Das sind schöne Erinnerungen.
My son worked in a haunted house =D he was a professional Zombie lmao. But was year round ^.^ We love Halloween in my house though, my favorite holiday tbh.
Yes there’s a Halloween parade where I live. And also everybody knows the kids do it for candy. And I know I do😂. And for years as an American in the U.S I barely celebrated Halloween because I didn’t have the money. And now this year I have the money to celebrate Halloween and buy the costume I want. And sometimes I think some people in my neighborhood go over the top with decorations. But in my opinion I love the over top decorations. It’s seems interesting and spooky. And my thought of Halloween in the U.S is having fun, celebrating, trick or treating.
The video of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" is another big Halloween staple Oh yes, and what Stefan said, some people coordinate their lights with a certain song or beat or a song (also for Christmas - seriously givin Chevy Chase a run for his money!). In the past years I have been dressing up as Henry VIII's second wife Anne Boleyn few times including a separate styrofoam head). Oh and yes Halloween originated here n Ireland actually and was called "Samhain". The english name "All hallows eve" was also used later and there you can probably recognise where the name "Halloween" comes from. And as lots of Irish emigrated to the US probably brought traditions over stateside and it became big there, so that closes the circle why many have a connotation of Halloween with the US.
I'm not into halloween, but if some ghosts or witches knock at my door, they will get some candy. If they dare to get past the big rubber spider in the candy bowl...
When my mother was a child during the second world war, she was evacuated to a region that is now part of the Czech Republic. There, the people celebrated a pagan All Hallows Eve and my mother told me about it. So I heard about this old European custom long before I ever heard about Halloween in the US. When I finally did, I found it rather confusing because nobody ever mentioned the origins of this festival.
Halloween is the same in most of Canada as it is in Germany. I loved going out house to house in a mom made costume collecting candy! Sadly we won't be celebrating it this year!!
It's funny, how Halloween changed as it swapped over the ocean to us (Austria, South of Germany). Seems it changed even more in my Country/Town (Vienna) than in Germany. Here only the Shops are decorated, (spooky decorations), but - i think this is because we already have a dress up event each year called "Fasching", and also there is the all souls day on nov, 1st - only the creepy/spooky/slightly morbid part of halloween spilled over. That means: no trick or treating for children. Only a few children are in costumes, and those are mostly spooky ones, BUT: In the evening you can see many adults wearing facepaint/costumes (spooky, scary, some up to a really, really creepy/scary and almost professional movie-like level) going to halloween parties (official ones and also private ones, but always: without children). Halloween in Vienna Austria is definetly NOT for children....
I was in the US during Halloween last year. I was an au pair and I halped my host kids get ready and I did their make up (2 times actually, once for a party at the country club and then for the 31st). We all went trick or treating but it wasnt so great because the weather was really wet and stormy that day, but the kids still had a lot of fun. I also wen to a party for the au pairs of my region, we had a pizza-bowling-party with a costume contest, that was nice too, some of the au pairs did really great woth their costumes/make up. in me region in Germany (Sachsen) we do actually have a Holiday in the 31st, but it has nothing to do with Halloween at all, it celebrates the reformation of the church (Reformationstag) :D
Halloween was also a german Tradition until World War I, at least in the roman catholic parts of Germany. But they did carve "Runkelrüben" (fodder beet / root of scarcity ? ) and not Pumpkins. And they used them as lanterns while trick or treating and collecting appels, little sausages und nuts. Since carving fodder beets needs more power the fathers or older brothers did this for the younger children. Because the most fathers and older brothers had to serve in war and the church calling the tradition a pagan ritual it was lost in 1919. So, when I here people saying, that halloween is no german tradition, i must smile. Well, in some regions it was not timed for hallowenn but for the next day, called Allerheiligen. Like for Karneval the children had little songs using them for there version of trick or treating. I have found two in the westfalian dialect, the first one perhaps being younger: Allerheiligen Füleken chiff mey wat int Bühleken, chiff mey wat int Näppken, chiff mey wat int Fättken! Chiff mey wat un lot mey chohn, ick mutt noch en Huiseken widderchon! and the older and darker one: Klein Manneken up de Deele, (or Deeke) de Himmel dey is leyke, de Himmel dey wull unnerchohn, do mocht wey olle innechohn!
I'm not against Halloween or adding any new holidays. But I'm a little bit nostalgic that a massively commercialized version of Halloween seemes to replace the older traditions from here that take place around the same dates. As a kid we used to celebrate St. Martin with our laterns and in the end everyone would gather around a huge fire and we would eat a “Weckmann“ which was only sold in bakeries in fall. And what happened to Hexennacht? Was a big thing for us as young teens. That was so similar to Halloween that it just got assimilated by it I guess.
Halloween is the American version of Oktoberfest, but for kids and only one day. Which by the way it was the most amazing event that I’ve been to when I visited Germany in 2018. I can still taste the beer!!!
I think most people are vaguely aware of Irish people having carved turnips & radishes, and that being the origin of Jack O'Lanterns, and assuming that most/all holidays have origins before the US was founded. PS, "samhain" is pronouned "sow-en" (rhymes with cow-hen). But then, I'm a pagan, so I know A LOT about the origin of the holiday.
took me a long time to understand why the costumes here in Europe are more "on topic" and not all over the place like in the US until I realized the american kids don't have carneval and want to use the one occasion per year for any costum they like
To me Karnevall/Fasching is not so comparable to Halloween. When I think of Karnevall the first thing that comes to my mind are elder Germans, dressing up in ridiculous ways and dancing to German Folksmusik. I like the concept of Halloween way more as it is spooky and pretty to watch. Nice Video! Also greetz to Trixi!
Here in Mexico we celebrate Halloween sometimes and the day of the dead for sure. I think that halloween 🎃 we usually spend it with friends and the day of the dead with our families. I would like to know if you have started to celebrate the day of the dead because of "Coco" the disney movie, or if there's more information about our holiday ☺️😉 thanks!!!
This is gonna be my second Halloween in the States. I am very excited. 🎃🧟👻🧡🕷🍬I already see in my neighborhood that many people put out some decorations for the house. Unfortunately - due to Corona, there won't be any Halloween parties in clubs (went to one in Atlanta some years ago and it was craaaazy) etc. this year 😌 But I am invited to a small gathering from a friend...so, yes definitely ready to dress up 😁
We experienced Halloween in Miami 2017. Had a nice Dinner at the Nexxt Cafe on Lincoln Road (wich sadly is no more) and watched all the crazy costumes around us. We had no costumes, because only had a few days in Miami before our Caribbean Cruise... Halloween is nice in the USA, but we don't need it at home in Bavaria. ;)
Natürlich kommt Halloween ursprünglich aus Europa. Aber das, was aktuell in Europa gefeiert wird, ist tatsächlich ein Abklatsch aus den USA. Sozusagen ein Reimport 😂
All Hallows Eve didn`t become widely celebrated in the U.S. until a lot of immigrants from Ireland and Scotland. Halloween as we now know it didn`t become a holiday until the 20th century.
I know they are several decades old, but I wanted to know if you are familiar with the German band, Helloween? Check out the video for "Halloween." ruclips.net/video/yOAl0enE7kI/видео.html
Honestly, I don't have a reason to be celebrating Halloween. Just can't get connected to it probably because I wasn't socialized with it. Just one time (I was probably 12, so around 2002) I was sleeping over at a friends place who lived in an area where lots of families were living. We did the whole trick or treat thing and I didn't feel comfortable that night. I find it hard to draw the line between "its all about the fun of it" and Halloween being an occult feast that can be really dangerous. Btw: I come from a small town in Saxony-Anhalt in Germany, growing up in a Christian family.
Another interesting subject! While I would certainly look curiously into Halloween in the USA and other countries with Irish/Celtic traditions, I object to Halloween in Germany. We don't have Celtic traditions! To me, its' German "origins" are entirely commercial - it came through the shops the same way as "US food week" in ALDI - hail to revenue! I'm entirely happy with German traditions like Karneval (costumes) and Sankt Martin (go around for treats) - no need for those events from abroad. Again, I'd be happy to participate in Halloween in the US, but it doesn't belong to us!
@@MeOverground In Bramsche (das im Osnabrücker Land, mit der dazu passenden St. Martin-Kirche). "Mattemännken" ist allerdings meines Wissens eine sehr lokale Tradition. Aber vielleicht gibt es den Brauch ja unter anderem Namen auch anderswo?
@@patrickj Doch, Martinsmännchen kenne ich auch. Stimmt, die bekommen die Kinder beim Martinszug geschenkt, man kann sie in der Zeit auch in jeder Bäckerei kaufen. Ich hatte es jetzt nur nicht als Parallele zu Halloween gesehen.
@@MeOverground Wir kannten Figurengebäck mit Tonpfeife auch in Köln (1960-1970). Nach dem Martinszug mit Laternen gab es das Martinssingen (s. Wikipedia) mit Liedern wie "De helleje Zinte Mätes, Dat wor ne jode Mann," (Der heilige Sankt Martin war ein guter Mann) - im Gedenken daran, dass er seinen Mantel geteilt hat, sollten die Bewohner ihre Süßigkeiten mit uns teilen. Zuletzt waren wir (Abiturienten) mit dem Auto unterwegs und einem Saxophon - da gab's bei den Eltern unserer Freunde auch mal Hochprozentiges ;) Als ich später in die Diaspora, ins evangelische Nürnberg, kam, mussten meine Kinder (am Nikolaustag!) mit dem Pelzemärtel (=Martin) vorlieb nehmen, aber auch der ritt auf einem Pferd vor der Laternenprozession her ;)
@@MeOverground Ich bin in einem Dorf in der Nähe von Hannover aufgewachsen. Damals (70er Jahre des vergangenen Jahrtausends) sind alle Dorfkinder von Haus zu Haus gezogen und haben u.a. folgendes gesungen, um Süßigkeiten zu kriegen. Matten Matten Meeren, die Äpfel und die Beeren. Lasst uns nicht so lange steh’n, wir wollen noch nach Bremen geh’n. Bremen ist 'ne große Stadt da geben alle Leute was. Den Großen und den Kleinen, sonst fangen sie an zu weinen. Matten Matten Meeren, die Äpfel und die Beeren, die essen wir so gern. Lasst uns nicht so lange steh’n, auf den kalten Steinen, denn wir wollen noch weiter geh’n - nach Bremen - nach Bremen. Denn Bremen ist ne große Stadt da kriegen alle Kinder was. Ich weiss nicht, ob die Tradition nicht inzwischen durch Halloween verdrängt wurde. Schließlich sind Süßigkeiten am 31.10. besser als erst am 10 oder 11. November.
She didn't see me creep Down the stairs to have a peep She thought that I was tucked up In my bedroom, fast asleep Then I saw the Mummy kissing Satan Claws under the Pitcher plant! Oh, what a laugh it would have been If daddy had only seen but he was dangling headless from a ceiling beam Come on, fellas, believe me, you just gotta believe me You fools! You're in danger! Can't you see? They're after you! They're after all of us! Our wives, our children, everyone! They're here already! You're next! You're next! ("I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" meets "Invasion Of The Body Snatchers"!)
Where I live ( Suburbia, Bern, Switzerland) halloween is not or no longer celebrated. Swiss retail businesses did try to establish the tradition, but it didn't take. I first encountered halloween when I was a kid and I lived in the US for some time (mid 70ies), but my family (Grandma) did not observe the tradition (I think for religious reasons, not sure), so I only saw it in school. I did go trick-or-treating, but it didn'l really leave a lasting impression.
"But, then again, it also seems a bit over the top, to me, and way too commercialized." Well, yeah. It seems way too commercialized to a lot of us in the US as well. It's a bit of a cancer in the US that we can't seem to make a holiday that doesn't, in time, become about giving even more money to those who already have more than they have _any_ hope of _ever_ needing. It's puzzling for me, though, that this holiday originated in Ireland, where they _spelled_ is "Samhain" but _pronounced_ it "saw win." What in the world happened, there?
One year I dressed up as a candy collector. I wore a box in front of me, with a strap up around my neck. I had a semi-uniform look. The box actually said "Candy Collector" on it. When I was in college, a friend and I were invited by two girls to a Halloween party. They dressed up as prostitutes, which I thought was a little odd, since I wouldn't have thought women would want to celebrate prostitution, but they certainly were not trying to make a statement. They just wanted to look sexy.
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Such a sweet and interesting video!
Thank you for being a part of my Halloween video, Trixi!!!!🎃🕷🍬
Don’tTrustTheRabbit. Trixie, Are you ok? I haven’t seen one of your videos in months.
We miss you Trixie!! A LOT!! More videos Please!!
@@WantedAdventure Do you and y'all friends know most of the US Halloween traditions come from Europe?
Hey guys! I'm so glad that you are doing well. Thanks for sharing some positivity in these crazy times. Sincere blessings to both of you, to your guests in this video and to its viewers! 😊
When I was in elementary school in the U.S., they made us dress up in our Halloween costumes and we would all parade around the school building in our costumes. So that was a Halloween parade of sorts.
That was usually a fail. We had traditional fair activities like apple dunking, where you were required to bite and retrieve an apple from a water tank. Traditional harvest festival stuff.
Just because it's "over the top" doesn't mean it isnt homemade. My brother and I made spooky stuff from scratch when we were to old to trick or treat. My favorite was a metal wire that went from one tree to another and we made a ghost out of a white sheet and stuffed the head with paper and tied it off. We then put it on the wire and made a pulley system for it.
Pumpkisses is now my new favorite word! Great video!
Pumpkisses😂😁🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃
Stefans Blick bei jedem schlechten Wortwitz ist einfach herrlich😂
one of the instagram submitions was mine and I got so excited when I saw it, thank you for making my day like that lmao
Parade at school on Halloween. Let's you ask who the kids are who are taking candy so you meet all kids in neighborhood as an adult. So you can associate a name with a face. Kids can see that lots of adults in neighborhood are regular people. Parents can meet neighbors when their kids get candy. Kids learn to say thank you when they get candy. Not just scary costumes lots of princesses, sports figures, tv characters, cartoon characters .
Ich bin auch ein Angsthase und habe für Horror gar nichts übrig, für Grusel nur wohldosiert zusammen mit Humor. Die Munsters sind für mich das höchste der Gefühle.
@Zoom Ich habe in meinem ganzen Leben nur einen einzigen Horrorfilm gesehen, das war als Teenager in England mit Freunden irgendein Friday 13th. Den fand ich tatsächlich auch langweilig, weil er furchtbar vorhersehbar war. Aber mir gibt das so gar nichts - und ich möchte keinen ekligen, blutigen Kram anschauen, auch, wenn man deutlich sieht, dass alles nur fake ist.
Mich belasten eher Filme mit Vampiren, Werwölfen und sowas, das knüpft an Kindheitsängste an.
Aber auch Horrorbabies, -puppen, -clowns... möchte ich nicht kennenlernen. Auf der Welt gibt es genug realen Horror, das finde ich belastend genug.
Ich kann mich erinnern, dass wir in meiner Kindheit Kürbisgeister geschnitzt haben. Das war in den 70er Jahren, lange bevor Halloween bei uns bekannt und populär geworden ist. Manchmal haben wir auch Geister aus Zuckerrüben geschnitzt. Meine Großeltern hatten ein Kürbisfeld in ihrem Garten, aber im Allgemeinen waren Kürbisse damals noch nicht so beliebt und verbreitet wie heute.
When I was a kid, there was no Halloween. There was St. Martin's day though, when we took our (often self-built in the week prior) lanterns out at night and walked through the village, singing St. Martin's and lantern songs...
Stefan saying "out the wazoo" made me grin. It seems like it would be about the most un-German phrase out there. :-)
When I was a child, an this was before 1960, some larger cities had parades where children marched in their costumes. I only remember seeing this once as a very small child. Apparently something called 'ragamuffin day' existed in places like NYC, but this took place around Thanksgiving. One of my older aunts confused Halloween and Ragamuffin day, this tradition must have died out before WWII.
The ET association is because the kids take ET trick or treating in the film.
The biggest difference that I noticed were the costumes. Where I grew up in Germany people would always dress up as something scary, like witches, monsters, ghosts, etc. And where I lived in the U.S. people wore all kinds of costumes. Plus I think teens in Germany sometimes tend to think of Halloween as an event to get drunk.
When I was a child and teen I celebrated Halloween a few times. I remember being dressed as a witch once and I think I dressed up as a ghost for my first Halloween. For my first Halloween we had a big sleepover party at my house and I remember some of my friends would eat pretty much all of our candy (like all the candy the whole group got) during the night.
When I was in the U.S. when I was 17, me and my host sister took my little host brother trick or treating. I was dressed up as French maid but I was still under the impression that the costume had to spooky. By coincidence we knocked at my chemistry teachers' house and he said something like "You look like some German killer French maid" (German because he knew I was an exchange student from Germany) and I think that explains pretty much how I looked. And my host brother wore one of those suits that you blow up so he looked like a much overweighted little lady in a bikini.
The first 5 years I lived in the US I did live in a super small town in Missouri and they did have a huge parade every year. Now I am in a larger town in Georgia were they have one as well.
The most intrguing thing I found for my only US Halloween back then was a screaming doormat. If you stepped onto it, it would scream and howl to scare the one standing on it. I really liked that... and the Halloween party in Greenwich in Washington I went to. The Halloween festivities in the neighborhood with the kids very really adorable.
ET: im Film nutzen die Kinder das Süßigkeitensammeln um ET mit seiner Maschine, mit der er Kontakt aufnehmen will (nach Hause telefonieren), an Halloween um ihn auf eine Anhöhe zu bringen. Er gibt sich als Gertie (Drew Barrymore) aus, die als Gespenst losziehen will. Lustig ist dabei, dass ein Kind als Yoda verkleidet von ET als anderer Außerirdischer erkannt wird und umgehend diesen versucht zu verfolgen...
Here in my state, we have a house/family that always has lots and lots of pumpkins for Halloween. naturally called 'the pumpkin house'...they have hundreds, each with a different carving. it's pretty cool, we've had people in from other states just to come to the pumpkin house.
Wow!!!! Do you know if the family does all the pumpkin carving themselves? That's really interesting!🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃
@@WantedAdventure the guy that owns it used to do it all by himself back in 78 but over time, i think the family gets help from the community and other volunteers. They are up to 3,000 pumpkins now. here's a link with more information. www.atlasobscura.com/places/kenovas-pumpkin-house
As a child i spend a lot of holidays in the north of germany (i am from the west) and i did “Rummelpott“ once, kind of a northern Karneval/halloween:
Rummelpottlaufen ist ein in Norddeutschland und in Nordschleswig verbreiteter Heischebrauch, bei dem am frühen Silvesterabend Kinder geschminkt und verkleidet in Gruppen mit einem Rummelpott von Haustür zu Haustür gehen und charakteristische Rummelpottlieder singen oder Reime aufsagen. (wikipedia)
I think younger generations tend to know more about the pagan roots of halloween. ( At least in the circles of friends I associate with). However my when I speak to ppl my parents age And older they only seem to know it as a commercial holiday
That's really interesting to hear!!
@AllisonBlack I agree. I am younger and happen to know more of the pagan roots of Halloween(Samhain) and tend to celebrate it more in the pagan ways. Most people where I live only know the commercial Halloween. While friends and I mostly celebrate Samhain.
@@WantedAdventure I'm 19 and of course the carving of the pumpkins comes.from Irish and Scottish immigrants brought that tradition when they carved turnips not pumpkins. The celtics believed in the spirt world and the living world well the veil was at its lowest. Dressing up was meant to hide us from the spirits. I am sure there are German traditions the German culture is a big influnce on America and sort English itself.
When I was a kid, we always went trick or treating. So I don't think it's that new and I also lived in a small village. I think it's more a regional thing, in some parts of Germany it's far more common than in others.
Nice to see Stephen
Yay!! He's in my video this coming Sunday too!🤩
I don't like scary movies, and all the Halloween stuff scares my kids so we largely ignore it.
I loove Halloween, but they don't make a big deal about it here in the UK either. I always decorate and dress up anyway, my English husband thinks it's another cute quirk that makes his American wife happy, but he doesn't totally get it.
Interesting: Thanks to Harry Potter i kind of assumed that Halloween is a big thing in the UK also even if not as big as in the U.S.
We celebrated Halloween as a kid in England, but Trick or Treat was an American thing. Here, in North Germany, we don't really do Halloween so much as Mattemänchen or Mattännken, that is when all of the kids come round on the 10th November and sing a song to get some candy. www.noz.de/lokales/bramsche/artikel/628094/warum-feiern-die-bramscher-mattemannken
Halloween parades definitely exist in the US. In my hometown, the Halloween parade was the biggest parade of the year!
@Kristen So cool and interesting to hear!! Was it mostly kids in the parade? Or kids and adults together?
@@WantedAdventure Kids and adults together. All the marching bands in the county would march and a lot of local businesses would make fairly elaborate floats and throw candy (really great advertising opportunity! 😏). Everybody would be in costume. We even had local unicycle, baton twirling, and martial arts clubs that would display their skills in the parade.
Hi Dana, I'm from Ireland, where Halloween is actually originally from. We totally dressed up every year and went trick or treating, people didn't really decorate the houses though, but we got lots of sweets. Samhain(pronounced sow-ahn) is an Irish word. It means November and is originally a pagan tradition celebrating the end of the harvest season, the bright part of the year entering kinda winter/dark part of the year. Its known to be the night where the air is thinnest between the spirit and human world, people dressed up kinda to confuse the spirits. We also nowadays still have big bonfires where everyone gathers round on Halloween to celebrate and there are often fireworks (even though they aren't legal in Ireland 😆) we would make our costumes or adapt something we had....some people just wore a black sacks and a mask, I loved creating the outfit though, the pumpkin in American was also apparently brought over by the Irish as they used to carve out turnips. But found pumpkins to be easier and available when they fled to America. Nowadays people still create costumes but lots buy ready made ones too and pumpkins are a relatively new reaintroduction to Ireland, it's fun..my nephew loves pumpkins. And last but not least, parades are a thing, they can be kinda cool but I have only been to one...I honestly haven't been to one, it was more about sparklers, trick or treating and the bonfire for me 🎃🍁😁☠️🕷️🕸️
I'm in Athens, GA and we have a huge Halloween parade called the Wild Rumpus every year. People in costumes march the parade route and don't need tickets or to register or anything. It's amazing how detailed some people's costumes are. Definitely missing it this year :(
I think for those of us who grew up in Christian environments, we heard the "Halloween is Pagan/Satanic!" thing. At least a little, but others heard that way too often. Just part of growing up during the USA's satanic panic time.
Also did anyone else get the scary tiny comic religious tracts instead of candy? Or other not-as-cool things, like toothpaste and floss and stuff?
Schönes Video. Ich liebe Elisabeth, sie ist eine tolle Journalistin
My kids love The monster mash :) I have to listen to it everyday 😂
Ich habe meine Familie vor einiger Zeit dazu mal befragt, meine Eltern kannten Halloween gar nicht, mein Großvater hat das aber als Kind wohl gefeiert. Er hat erzählt, wie sie damals im stockdunklen Dorf mit Kürbislaternen umhergelaufen sind, an Fenster klopfend Leute erschreckt und Süßigkeiten gesammelt haben. (das muss so um 1940 herum gewesen sein.)
Meine Eltern haben das wie gesagt nie gefeiert und ich habe das auch erst als Jugendlicher kennengelernt, als das aus den USA wieder herüberkam. Seitdem gibt es jedes Jahr ein wenig Deko, ein wenig Naschkram für die Nachbarskinder und vielleicht einen gemütlichen Abend mit Freunden, aber nichts allzu aufwendiges.
The city of Anoka, Minnesota which is a northwestern suburb of Minneapolis, MN. Has a Halloween parade every year for over a hundred years. Anoka is called the Halloween capital of the world. Because of covid 19 this year is probably canceled.
Dana: Thank you, MUmmy!
Pun Counter: *Ting!*
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I used to live in a tiny village in Lower Saxony, and the kids in that village used to really celebrate Halloween, dressing up, going trick or treating, the whole nine yards. Until I was in third grade, then we were forbidden from going trick or treating because the local teenagers couldn't behave. The previous year, some teens from the neighbourhood lathered up the doorstep of an elderly couple with liquid soap, and the next morning, when the wife came out to get the newspaper, she fell and broke her hip.
😱 How horrible
Samhain is pronounced "Sow-in". Old Irish word. And yes. I grew up knowing about Samhain in the US. Now that I'm an adult, I try to keep in touch with my Scottish roots, carving a turnip as well as pumpkins to keep away evil spirits, making soul cakes to leave out for the dead, and "guising" (dressing up to confuse evil spirits). We also watch traditional spooky movies together, tell ghost stories and eat lots of sweets.
I loooooove Halloween!! I don't buy a lot of stuff or go to parties, but it's all tied up with fall for me, and I love the pumpkin stuff, apple cider, Halloween books and movies (but not too scary), and I party with my kids at home every year. The only better time of year is Christmas (which I'll start celebrating on November 1 😂).
I love halloween so much. I've always loved it, my mom always hated it. My mom always hated decorating in general when I was younger, but now she's super excited about holidays again and I think she likes halloween a bit now. I know a lot of holidays started as Pagan celebrations, including Christmas, and I do buy into the American commercialism while still appreciating the traditions of it.
I think Halloween is whatever you make of it. As a child in the US I went door-to-door trick-or-treating
then when I got older I passed out candy to the kids. These days I mainly just watch Horror movies. BTW, Hello Stefan! :)
Halloween is like Saint Martin and Karneval have married, isn't it?
Concerning the lights and lanterns perhaps... But then... not really
Not quite. On Halloween they don't really go round with lanterns or St. Marin's wouldn't strike me for trick or treating. In my hometown in Hessen we used to dress up as little Santas on 6th of December and go from house to house, make a little saying and then get some sweets, nuts, an Orange on Mandarin (However there was no 'threat' of tricking people if we didn't get any sweets.)
I went trick or treating exactly one time in Germany as a kid. It was in the "suburbs" where my aunt lived and she took me and my cousin trick or treating. Some people even gave us candy, but some didn't even open the door and others apologized for not having candy in the house. My cousin and I didn't like that evening much xD
That was also the only time I dressed up for Halloween as a kid. As an adult I went to several Halloween Parties in costume though. But always a creepy costume!^^
I really like Halloween. We always celebrated it. I used to have sleep overs with some friends at halloween and watch movies (not necessarily scary movies) and it was just fun. We would also sometimes dress up (usually as witches or ghosts) and when I was as kid (about 15-20 years ago) I would also do trick or treating with my brothers. But I've never been to a big Halloween Party. And by the way - I am from a super small village in Bavaria :) After I finished school I moved to a bigger town and here Halloween is not a thing at all, which is kind of weird to me. As I got older I also learned about the pagan origins of Halloween and the connection to Allerheiligen and that made me love it even more. I also learned a lot about pagan origins of other Holidays and I think that's definitelty something that should be talked about more.
I'm not really into Halloween but most people I know are. I would argue that rather than things being "competitive" the over the top productions that people put on are really for the enjoyment of others. I know people who really do up their homes for holidays not to one up the neighbors but for their happiness.
I'm 37 and NOT American, but I can't imagine my life without Halloween. I have always celebrated and I always regret not being able to dress up and going around asking "Trick or treat?" as a kid. I would have been looked as a weirdo
In Texas we have Octoberfest…because many of our towns were founded by German immigrants, and they still speak Texas German here.
Paisano's Roost Farm in Southern New Mexico: El Dia de Los Muertos in Mesilla unfortunately cancelled this year.
Cemetery clean up/spruce up. Our traditions include Pumpkin carving, stuffed mushroom brains and mummy fingers (hot dogs wrapped in croissants). I bake a jack-o-lantern cake that occasionally looks funny due to my imbibing in an adult beverage. Our old neighborhood in Alamogordo was the preferred trick-or-treating destination due only having two entry points. I gave out 134 pencils one year.
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Horse-drawn hayrides are better than tractor-drawn hayrides, btw.
I once made a slideshow to run in the background for a Halloween party that I am still pretty proud of. It consisted of very dark pieces of art mainly of a polish artist that later killed himself. I put two sentence horror stories on top of the artworks.
It was probably almost too dark in the end but every now and then I put some oldschoold 'spooky' Disney video in it to lighten it up.
Was a cool evening. I really like dressing up and partying that way while putting on a persona for example.
All that kids related stuff is not important to me.
I stopped celebrating Halloween for a long time. When I was a kid Halloween was a favorite of mine but over the years it’s been 😒. I’m more into Christmas and that’s about it.
One of my favorite Halloween related customs from when I grew up in the early 1960’s in Reading PA, was what we called “raiding”. We took dried field corn or pretty colored “Indian corn” off-the-cob, and after dark, threw a handful at our neighbor’s big front picture windows in an attempt to scare them. Most people just ignored us. But the best was when someone came out and yelled and we had to run and hide. The next afternoon,, we’d sneak up on the neighbors’ front porches and collected the corn to be thrown again that night.
Was this a custom for anyone else? Or were we just little delinquents?
I like Halloween because it is the only holiday where an adult population of a country is motivated to spend an inordinate amount of time and money to decorate and hand out candy to waves of strange children..lol
Until I met some Europeans in the US for university, as an American aware that most of our holidays seem to come from immigrants and most of our early immigrants/colonists were Europeans I just assumed Halloween was celebrated there only to find out that it’s not celebrated in much of Europe and where it is, it’s not as big a thing as in the US. As my grandparents and parents have a love of history and geography, they often shared stories about the origins of things like holidays, etc. That info was generally shared at some point in the season. I’ve never been fond of Halloween myself (though I have a cousin whose birthday is October 31). Mostly I’m not fond of scary things, so the parts of Halloween I enjoy tend to be the more fun and less scary aspects.
Normally in my city of 50,000 in northern Oklahoma, there’s lots of things to do throughout the month for kids and adults. There are parties held by neighbors, friends, businesses, etc that you go to of course. The local schools take the kids to one of the local pumpkin patches to let the kids pick out pumpkins which they then get to carve at school (with assistance/supervision by the teachers). Some schools take the kids to the nearby Daze-in-a-Maze...a giant corn maze made every year by a local farm family. The schools all have their carnivals during October as well so lots of games and prizes. At the school I went to and my niece now goes to (a rural school) the carnival includes a crowning of each grade group. Each grade T1-12th sells raffle tickets from the start of October until the day of the carnival (it’s money raised for the class’s end of the school year trip to OKC to do something fun like visit an amusement park, the zoo, etc). Grades T1-3, 4-6, 7-9, and 10-12 are grouped together to compete against each other. The Pre-K and Kindergarten kids participate as crown bearers and flower maidens. Each class nominates one boy and one girl to represent them. The class in each group that sells the most raffle tickets has their representatives crowned: T1-3 crowned mini-prince and mini-princess, 4-6 crowned mini-king and mini-queen, 7-9 crowned prince and princess, 10-12 crowned king and queen. It’s a lot of fun. Of course Homecoming is in October, too, so that’s the week of crazy school spirit challenges followed by the big football game and a dance afterwards. In my city a lot of the churches hold carnivals or trick-or-treating events. One big church you line up out front and you follow a path through the church stopping at different points getting candy and at the end you are in their gymnasium and they have stage shows going on, food to eat, games to play, etc. It’s completely free. Several do the trunk-or-treat where the members park their cars in the parking lot along a pattern and kids can walk along and get candy that the members hand out while sitting at or on their vehicles. Downtown at the courthouse square there’s booths from various local businesses and organizations that have games, hand out candy, there’s costume contests in different age groups, live music, hayrides, and sometimes a costume parade with everyone that wants to participate (one year they even had fireworks) [there is a similar event on Black Friday that kicks off the start of Christmas that always ends with fireworks]. There’s two big events at two of the big city parks. One has live music, booths from organizations that hand out candy, there’s costume contests in different themes (scary, funny, cute, etc), games, and other fun. The other one is similar except that that park has a mini-amusement park run by a local charity group and they open up the rides (there’s a train that goes around the park, a ferris wheel, a carousel, and two little spin rides for really young kids...one with the seats designed to look like jet planes and the other with seats designed to look like cars)...sometimes the owners of the mini-golf place next door to the park will open up, too. Then there’s actual trick-or-treating door-to-door on Halloween evening itself. Lots of people decorate their homes (some of my friends even have Halloween trees they set up in their front room windows...like a Christmas tree but usually either black/purple/white/orange and decorated with Halloween themed decorations and usually orange and purple lights). In some parts of the city people hand out money instead of candy. In the neighborhood I grew up in (and my mom still lives in), there’s one house where the entire yard is decorated and there’s a sign as to where to enter. As you follow the decorated path and get to see all the decorations, there are points along the way where the family members are dressed up and give you candy....baby, kids, teens, adults doesn’t matter your age you’re getting candy! It’s usually a lot of fun and you can definitely tell Halloween is their favorite holiday. It’s hard not to get in the spirit visiting their house and they do try to make sure to not be too scary with the decor and costumes. One year a friend of mine took his five kids and one of them was scared to enter because of one of the decorations. My friend said one of the family members took the kid’s hand and let him go up to the “scary” decoration and hit it to “show that mean decoration it can’t stop you from getting candy” is what the person told him. It worked, according to my friend, because afterwards his kiddos didn’t want to leave those folks yard! Last year I had to work on Halloween and the store I worked at handed out candy and had a costume contest (if you came in the store in costume you automatically got entered into a raffle to win prizes...didn’t even have to present to win we called the winners!)
My favorite Halloween movie to watch is Hocus Pocus. My niece’s favorite is The Nightmare Before Christmas. Halloween is my niece’s favorite holiday. She loves making her own costumes. Her and her friends often do theme costumes. For example, one year each of them decided to go as a character from the tv show Riverdale. My niece went as Jughead (which finding pieces to make that costume took us a good portion of the year....thankfully she and her friends come up with their ideas in like May so makes it great to have the time to look for what’s needed). Actually it’s not uncommon here for people to make their own costumes. Three years ago when our city held its first comic-con, I wasn’t as surprised as some at the number of cosplayers with their own-made costumes. We may not be a parade-float making city, but geesh to people like making costumes!!!!!
Loved this video!!! Thanks for making it!!!
I've always been told that the place to really enjoy Halloween is Salem, Mass.
Halloween is certainly bigger in the states than here in Germany! However, it's becoming more popular especially among children!.
Bei uns gab es früher die deutsche Halloween Tradition des "Rübengeisterns". Hier höhlt man Futterrüben aus und schnitzt Gesichter rein, wie man es auch mit Kürbissen macht. Und dann läuft man mit diesen Rübengeistern von Haus zu Haus und sammelt Süßigkeiten etc. Aber ohne Verkleidung. Mittlerweile hat sich das aber mit dem amerikanischen Halloween vermischt oder wurde ganz abgelöst.
There was here a traditional parade in Essen called "Zombie walk". This year it was cancelled because of the C.
In Canada we celebrate it similar to the US but I have never heard of a parade
Als Kind, bin in 1989 in Rumänien geboren, hatten wir kein Halloween gefeiert. Aber wir hatten so einen Brauch, ungarischer Brauch, und zwar wenn ein Schwein in der Familien geschlachtet wurde, haben die Familienmitglieder abends zusammen gegessen. Während des Essens kamen aus der Nachbarschaft verkleidete Menschen, so dass wir Kinder sie nicht erkennen könnten, ein bisschen auch wie "Monster" aussehend (keine Halloween Kostume, sondern Lumpen), die mit einem Topf und mit einem Holzlöffel viel Lärm machten. Dann musste die Frau des Hauses in diese Töpfe Essen reintun ( gebratenes Wurst, Kohlruladen, etc). Das sind schöne Erinnerungen.
Klingt schön und lustig. 😊
My son worked in a haunted house =D he was a professional Zombie lmao. But was year round ^.^ We love Halloween in my house though, my favorite holiday tbh.
Yes there’s a Halloween parade where I live. And also everybody knows the kids do it for candy. And I know I do😂. And for years as an American in the U.S I barely celebrated Halloween because I didn’t have the money. And now this year I have the money to celebrate Halloween and buy the costume I want. And sometimes I think some people in my neighborhood go over the top with decorations. But in my opinion I love the over top decorations. It’s seems interesting and spooky. And my thought of Halloween in the U.S is having fun, celebrating, trick or treating.
The video of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" is another big Halloween staple Oh yes, and what Stefan said, some people coordinate their lights with a certain song or beat or a song (also for Christmas - seriously givin Chevy Chase a run for his money!). In the past years I have been dressing up as Henry VIII's second wife Anne Boleyn few times including a separate styrofoam head). Oh and yes Halloween originated here n Ireland actually and was called "Samhain". The english name "All hallows eve" was also used later and there you can probably recognise where the name "Halloween" comes from. And as lots of Irish emigrated to the US probably brought traditions over stateside and it became big there, so that closes the circle why many have a connotation of Halloween with the US.
I'm not into halloween, but if some ghosts or witches knock at my door, they will get some candy. If they dare to get past the big rubber spider in the candy bowl...
When my mother was a child during the second world war, she was evacuated to a region that is now part of the Czech Republic. There, the people celebrated a pagan All Hallows Eve and my mother told me about it. So I heard about this old European custom long before I ever heard about Halloween in the US. When I finally did, I found it rather confusing because nobody ever mentioned the origins of this festival.
I got one!! Haha that’s the cutest thing ever ❤️ melts my heart
Where I currently live, no Halloween parades.
Halloween is the same in most of Canada as it is in Germany. I loved going out house to house in a mom made costume collecting candy! Sadly we won't be celebrating it this year!!
Monster Mash. It's a graveyard smash!
It's funny, how Halloween changed as it swapped over the ocean to us (Austria, South of Germany).
Seems it changed even more in my Country/Town (Vienna) than in Germany.
Here only the Shops are decorated, (spooky decorations), but - i think this is because we already have a dress up event each year called "Fasching", and also there is the all souls day on nov, 1st - only the creepy/spooky/slightly morbid part of halloween spilled over.
That means: no trick or treating for children. Only a few children are in costumes, and those are mostly spooky ones,
BUT: In the evening you can see many adults wearing facepaint/costumes (spooky, scary, some up to a really, really creepy/scary and almost professional movie-like level) going to halloween parties (official ones and also private ones, but always: without children).
Halloween in Vienna Austria is definetly NOT for children....
I was in the US during Halloween last year. I was an au pair and I halped my host kids get ready and I did their make up (2 times actually, once for a party at the country club and then for the 31st). We all went trick or treating but it wasnt so great because the weather was really wet and stormy that day, but the kids still had a lot of fun. I also wen to a party for the au pairs of my region, we had a pizza-bowling-party with a costume contest, that was nice too, some of the au pairs did really great woth their costumes/make up.
in me region in Germany (Sachsen) we do actually have a Holiday in the 31st, but it has nothing to do with Halloween at all, it celebrates the reformation of the church (Reformationstag) :D
Halloween was also a german Tradition until World War I, at least in the roman catholic parts of Germany. But they did carve "Runkelrüben" (fodder beet / root of scarcity ? ) and not Pumpkins. And they used them as lanterns while trick or treating and collecting appels, little sausages und nuts. Since carving fodder beets needs more power the fathers or older brothers did this for the younger children. Because the most fathers and older brothers had to serve in war and the church calling the tradition a pagan ritual it was lost in 1919. So, when I here people saying, that halloween is no german tradition, i must smile. Well, in some regions it was not timed for hallowenn but for the next day, called Allerheiligen. Like for Karneval the children had little songs using them for there version of trick or treating. I have found two in the westfalian dialect, the first one perhaps being younger:
Allerheiligen Füleken
chiff mey wat int Bühleken,
chiff mey wat int Näppken,
chiff mey wat int Fättken!
Chiff mey wat un lot mey chohn,
ick mutt noch en Huiseken widderchon!
and the older and darker one:
Klein Manneken up de Deele, (or Deeke)
de Himmel dey is leyke,
de Himmel dey wull unnerchohn,
do mocht wey olle innechohn!
I'm not against Halloween or adding any new holidays. But I'm a little bit nostalgic that a massively commercialized version of Halloween seemes to replace the older traditions from here that take place around the same dates. As a kid we used to celebrate St. Martin with our laterns and in the end everyone would gather around a huge fire and we would eat a “Weckmann“ which was only sold in bakeries in fall. And what happened to Hexennacht? Was a big thing for us as young teens. That was so similar to Halloween that it just got assimilated by it I guess.
Wait... Halloween... 🤔
Isn't it that festival belonging to this funny horror film series? 😜
Halloween is the American version of Oktoberfest, but for kids and only one day. Which by the way it was the most amazing event that I’ve been to when I visited Germany in 2018. I can still taste the beer!!!
I don't think these two have really much in common
I think most people are vaguely aware of Irish people having carved turnips & radishes, and that being the origin of Jack O'Lanterns, and assuming that most/all holidays have origins before the US was founded.
PS, "samhain" is pronouned "sow-en" (rhymes with cow-hen). But then, I'm a pagan, so I know A LOT about the origin of the holiday.
took me a long time to understand why the costumes here in Europe are more "on topic" and not all over the place like in the US until I realized the american kids don't have carneval and want to use the one occasion per year for any costum they like
To me Karnevall/Fasching is not so comparable to Halloween. When I think of Karnevall the first thing that comes to my mind are elder Germans, dressing up in ridiculous ways and dancing to German Folksmusik. I like the concept of Halloween way more as it is spooky and pretty to watch. Nice Video! Also greetz to Trixi!
I remember when Stefan was Mr German Man and we didnt see his face, that would be a cool costume for halloweeen
Here in Mexico we celebrate Halloween sometimes and the day of the dead for sure. I think that halloween 🎃 we usually spend it with friends and the day of the dead with our families. I would like to know if you have started to celebrate the day of the dead because of "Coco" the disney movie, or if there's more information about our holiday ☺️😉 thanks!!!
Regarding parades, where I grew up in Anaheim, CA (founded by German immigrants) they have a Halloween parade.
This is gonna be my second Halloween in the States. I am very excited. 🎃🧟👻🧡🕷🍬I already see in my neighborhood that many people put out some decorations for the house. Unfortunately - due to Corona, there won't be any Halloween parties in clubs (went to one in Atlanta some years ago and it was craaaazy) etc. this year 😌 But I am invited to a small gathering from a friend...so, yes definitely ready to dress up 😁
We experienced Halloween in Miami 2017. Had a nice Dinner at the Nexxt Cafe on Lincoln Road (wich sadly is no more) and watched all the crazy costumes around us. We had no costumes, because only had a few days in Miami before our Caribbean Cruise...
Halloween is nice in the USA, but we don't need it at home in Bavaria. ;)
Wie sagt man "out the wazoo" auf deutsch?
Natürlich kommt Halloween ursprünglich aus Europa. Aber das, was aktuell in Europa gefeiert wird, ist tatsächlich ein Abklatsch aus den USA. Sozusagen ein Reimport 😂
Speaking of European Halloween....it's really big in Ireland as well
All Hallows Eve didn`t become widely celebrated in the U.S. until a lot of immigrants from Ireland and Scotland. Halloween as we now know it didn`t become a holiday until the 20th century.
I know they are several decades old, but I wanted to know if you are familiar with the German band, Helloween? Check out the video for "Halloween."
ruclips.net/video/yOAl0enE7kI/видео.html
ET is set at Halloween, that’s presumably why people associate it with Halloween.
PUNS ARE LIFE =D
Honestly, I don't have a reason to be celebrating Halloween. Just can't get connected to it probably because I wasn't socialized with it. Just one time (I was probably 12, so around 2002) I was sleeping over at a friends place who lived in an area where lots of families were living. We did the whole trick or treat thing and I didn't feel comfortable that night. I find it hard to draw the line between "its all about the fun of it" and Halloween being an occult feast that can be really dangerous. Btw: I come from a small town in Saxony-Anhalt in Germany, growing up in a Christian family.
Another interesting subject!
While I would certainly look curiously into Halloween in the USA and other countries with Irish/Celtic traditions, I object to Halloween in Germany. We don't have Celtic traditions!
To me, its' German "origins" are entirely commercial - it came through the shops the same way as "US food week" in ALDI - hail to revenue!
I'm entirely happy with German traditions like Karneval (costumes) and Sankt Martin (go around for treats) - no need for those events from abroad. Again, I'd be happy to participate in Halloween in the US, but it doesn't belong to us!
Wo in Deutschland sammeln Kinder denn Süßigkeiten am Martinstag?
@@MeOverground In Bramsche (das im Osnabrücker Land, mit der dazu passenden St. Martin-Kirche). "Mattemännken" ist allerdings meines Wissens eine sehr lokale Tradition. Aber vielleicht gibt es den Brauch ja unter anderem Namen auch anderswo?
@@patrickj Doch, Martinsmännchen kenne ich auch. Stimmt, die bekommen die Kinder beim Martinszug geschenkt, man kann sie in der Zeit auch in jeder Bäckerei kaufen. Ich hatte es jetzt nur nicht als Parallele zu Halloween gesehen.
@@MeOverground Wir kannten Figurengebäck mit Tonpfeife auch in Köln (1960-1970). Nach dem Martinszug mit Laternen gab es das Martinssingen (s. Wikipedia) mit Liedern wie "De helleje Zinte Mätes, Dat wor ne jode Mann," (Der heilige Sankt Martin war ein guter Mann) - im Gedenken daran, dass er seinen Mantel geteilt hat, sollten die Bewohner ihre Süßigkeiten mit uns teilen. Zuletzt waren wir (Abiturienten) mit dem Auto unterwegs und einem Saxophon - da gab's bei den Eltern unserer Freunde auch mal Hochprozentiges ;)
Als ich später in die Diaspora, ins evangelische Nürnberg, kam, mussten meine Kinder (am Nikolaustag!) mit dem Pelzemärtel (=Martin) vorlieb nehmen, aber auch der ritt auf einem Pferd vor der Laternenprozession her ;)
@@MeOverground Ich bin in einem Dorf in der Nähe von Hannover aufgewachsen. Damals (70er Jahre des vergangenen Jahrtausends) sind alle Dorfkinder von Haus zu Haus gezogen und haben u.a. folgendes gesungen, um Süßigkeiten zu kriegen.
Matten Matten Meeren,
die Äpfel und die Beeren.
Lasst uns nicht so lange steh’n,
wir wollen noch nach Bremen geh’n.
Bremen ist 'ne große Stadt
da geben alle Leute was.
Den Großen und den Kleinen,
sonst fangen sie an zu weinen.
Matten Matten Meeren,
die Äpfel und die Beeren,
die essen wir so gern.
Lasst uns nicht so lange steh’n,
auf den kalten Steinen,
denn wir wollen noch weiter geh’n -
nach Bremen - nach Bremen.
Denn Bremen ist ne große Stadt
da kriegen alle Kinder was.
Ich weiss nicht, ob die Tradition nicht inzwischen durch Halloween verdrängt wurde. Schließlich sind Süßigkeiten am 31.10. besser als erst am 10 oder 11. November.
She didn't see me creep
Down the stairs to have a peep
She thought that I was tucked up
In my bedroom, fast asleep
Then I saw the Mummy kissing Satan Claws under the Pitcher plant!
Oh, what a laugh it would have been
If daddy had only seen but he was dangling headless from a ceiling beam
Come on, fellas, believe me, you just gotta believe me
You fools! You're in danger!
Can't you see?
They're after you!
They're after all of us!
Our wives, our children,
everyone!
They're here already!
You're next!
You're next!
("I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" meets "Invasion Of The Body Snatchers"!)
Stefan used the word wazoo. I bet he learned that term from Dana.
Yes every year we have a parade. They call it the callithumpian parade.
Where I live ( Suburbia, Bern, Switzerland) halloween is not or no longer celebrated.
Swiss retail businesses did try to establish the tradition, but it didn't take.
I first encountered halloween when I was a kid and I lived in the US for some time (mid 70ies), but my family (Grandma) did not observe the tradition (I think for religious reasons, not sure), so I only saw it in school. I did go trick-or-treating, but it didn'l really leave a lasting impression.
"But, then again, it also seems a bit over the top, to me, and way too commercialized."
Well, yeah. It seems way too commercialized to a lot of us in the US as well. It's a bit of a cancer in the US that we can't seem to make a holiday that doesn't, in time, become about giving even more money to those who already have more than they have _any_ hope of _ever_ needing.
It's puzzling for me, though, that this holiday originated in Ireland, where they _spelled_ is "Samhain" but _pronounced_ it "saw win." What in the world happened, there?
Yes monster mash!! Hahaha
It is very toned down this year, at least in California, trick or treating is mostly cancelled and decorated house are at a minimal...sadly....
One year I dressed up as a candy collector. I wore a box in front of me, with a strap up around my neck. I had a semi-uniform look. The box actually said "Candy Collector" on it.
When I was in college, a friend and I were invited by two girls to a Halloween party. They dressed up as prostitutes, which I thought was a little odd, since I wouldn't have thought women would want to celebrate prostitution, but they certainly were not trying to make a statement. They just wanted to look sexy.
Is there a reason why you pronounce it like holloween?