will eggs be on public sale on Monday?

There was a spate of flour and egging in our town many years ago at Hallowe'en, that was older teenagers throwing it at each other and it stuck ypto pavements, shop windows etc.

The police clamped down on it.

We were egged when we lived in the Northeast I wasn't even in so could not hear their knock.
DH insisted it was the pigeons from the woods until I pointed out it was Autumn and I didn't think they lay date-stamped eggs.
When we were little we had apple ducking the same as the Scots. Who say dook which was the word we used for going swimming. We had dookers, not a costume. We also hollowed out a turnip and cut a face on it and put a candle in. I hadn't heard of Trick or treating until I moved, I can remember a Scots neighbour being cross the day after Halloween as her sweets and nuts were thrown back at her only money was acceptable.

A neighbour of ours just held a DONUT DANGLE, kids had to try and bite the dangling donut with hands behind their backs.Of course once bitten it was theirs to keep.All a good laugh and was a fundraiser for a local charity.

My little chum's mummy tied apples on long strings to her kitchen pulley and we had to try to bite them and catch one without using our hands.

Not had the house targetted but my windscreen was covered in eggs once when I was driving home. Made a right mess and it was lucky I was close to home because it made it difficult to drive. We used to keep a tin of chocolates for callers but now there seems to be a rule that they only call at decorated homes. Last year we ate the whole tin ourselves.

In one of the Chalet school books the girls have a Halloween party. They jump over candles, one for every month of the year. If the candle stays lit, that month will be a good one. They roast chestnuts in the fire. They melt pieces of lead and put them in cold water. The shape will foretell the future. None of those I did, mind you. Dooking for apples and the treacle on the pancake definitely.

Hi paddyanne. You posted whilst I was writing.
We clearly share the same Scottish Halloween experience.
Can you think of any more games like dooking for apples? My memory is failing.

So sad that a lovely old tradition here made it’s way across the Atlantic and was then corrupted before returning to be accepted by us.
Halloween, originally Samhain, celebrated the end of Summer. It was a Celtic pagan harvest festival later absorbed by the Christian Church when it was placed before All Saints or All Hallows’ day. Halloween means the evening before All Hallows’ day.
Obviously over time the traditions changed but in my day, in Glasgow (I’m sure traditions differed majorly from area to area) children would dress up and after dusk would visit the homes of friends and neighbours where they would be invited in and had to perform their ‘party piece’. This might be a song, a magic trick, a recitation, if there was space perhaps a dance or cartwheel, anything to entertain. The children were rewarded with fruit, nuts and sweets. There were traditional games like dooking for apples, or jeely pancakes, the first involved a basin of water full of apples which you had to retrieve with your hands behind your back, the second was a pancake covered in jam or treacle suspended by a string. This was eaten again with hands behind your back.
Nothing negative about it, no tricks, no blackmail just innocent fun from a long (more than 2,000 year old) tradition.

Have any of you different memories of Halloween?

Its hasn't happened here as far as I know,we have always had kids who live nearby ,they come in sing a wee song or tell a joke or do a dance ,take their wee goody bag and go,
My daughter puts on FB that she has goody bags for kids with allergies because she's like me we love to see the wee ones all dressed up and having fun .
Like my parents and their parenta and theirs before them did in Scotland and Ireland

It was common here years ago to get your windows and cars egged and floured if you didn’t answer the door.
Fortunately that has all stopped but it was a real problem for a few years.

I don't get any trouble where I live now, but at my previous address the children would throw eggs at the house of anyone who didn't give them chocolate/money/etc.
I always kept a supply of chocolate ready, and then they would leave me alone, but some of my neighbours didn't and got pelted, - not personally but their house or car.

I have had handfuls of leaves and dirt shoved through my letterbox by Trick or Treaters with deep voices when I refused to open the door.... but it could have been worse.

I see where you are coming from, but I hardly think so.

I knew teaching colleagues who had their home egged by teenagers at Halloween, presumably disgruntled pupils. It has never happened to me ever.

I ve never had or seen a house egged of course I ve heard of it but never seen it Is it really that prevalent as to wonder if eggs are not going to be on sale !!!!!

So, are children throwing eggs at people?

I’m sure it must be a very tiny minuscule minority.

Even if they weren't going to be on sale on Monday those that wanted them for Trick or Treat shenanigans would simply get them beforehand or out of their parents fridges wouldn't they?

If they were unable to get hold of eggs they would simply resort to something else.

I am completely lost with this thread. Can someone enlighten me please?

We’ve never been ‘egged’. Our callers are nearly all little kids, dressed up and very excited, with a parent hovering close by.

Of course they will.

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