Here we go again!
I do admit that in the last 20 years, Halloween in American inner cities has been a disaster - called Devil’s Night. Of course, this Holy Day was never meant to be that. It’s simply a very European attitude towards honoring the dead. Which I do every Halloween. A candle for a loved one! And a bit of candy for a sweet child at the door dressed up in her finest.
I was big on halloween as a kid. Not so much now. But my favorite ride at Disney is “the haunted mansion”, the ultimate haunted house ride:
When hinges creak in doorless chambers,
And strange and frightful sounds echo through the halls.
Wherever candle lights flicker, though the air is deathly still,
That is the time ghosts are present, practicing their terror with ghoulish delight!
Welcome, foolish mortals to the haunted mansion!
Muahaha!
CC
We’ve never had a single trick-or-treater at our house, but it’s a rural area....I would like to be able to hand out some candy, though.
My husband lived in a busy subdivision when he was a kid. One Halloween his stepdad was the only one at home...he got swamped with trick-or-treaters. He ran out of candy, and still they kept coming. He was down to pulling Beanie Weenies out of the pantry and throwing them in the kids’ bags, and when THOSE were gone, he started handing out money. Finally he said the hell with it and went to bed. :)