Don't worry about spelling ... mine isn't all that good ( dyslexia ) and besides,I can tell what you mean. :-)
It's really only in the last 30 years or so, that Halloween has become such an overboard celebration in the USA. Halloween trees ? Sheeeeeeeeeeeeesh ! And a lot of peculiar stuff has been incorporated into it.
Were you Gardnerian, Fairyfey, Dianic, or just the local hodge-podge of California Wicca ?