Thread: Halloween Customs

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Since we are from all over the USA and even the world, I thought it would be neat to hear about Everyones favourite Halloween Customs. From Bon Fires to Bobbing for Apples and Trick or Treating. Since Halloween seems to be fading out here in South Florida I am interested in learning about something new, to start a new tradition or take on someone old tradition.

When I was kid growing up in Houston I could not wait for the Halloween carnival at school. We all got to dress up, there was a haunted house, dunking for apples, and an over-all carnival atmosphere. Then, Halloween night my Grandparents and Aunts would decorate the courtyard which was surrounded by huge pine and oak trees hanging with moss. What I wouldn't give to have that house today! Now, I have graduated into a fully obsessed yard haunter. I am already planning the new additions to the graveyard and making audio CD's for props!

When I was a teenager up until I was in my late twenties,I had a tradition.After the trick or treeters have gone and the streets were bare,when there was only a faint bark of a dog in the far distance,I would lift my jack-o-laterns up in the air,then throw them out either in the road or smash them against a tree.This signafied the offical end to the Halloween night.

rod spain

In my village it is the general custom to do trick or treating, or go to a party. I always hold a huge party with about 30 or so people, but this year I am aiming for 70. This just to celebrate Halloween, and also (as I am a pagan) to welcome in the new year.

---A Vampyre Laydee--- "My BITE is worse than my signature!"

Watching "it's the Great Pumpkin Charley Brown."
Carving way too many Jack-o-lanterns just so we can roast the seeds.
Buying more bags of Peanut Butter Kisses than we can possibly eat before Christmas. I think I ate the last one Tuesday.
Waiting till Halloween morning to put the yard haunt up. We do some stuff like driving the stakes for the tombstones and putting up the walkway the night before. Still it usually takes me 4 to 6 hours to get everything ready.

Your my hero Rod! But wouldn't it be more fun to smash someone ellses pumpkins? LOL We're pure white trash, we leave ours on the front stoop till they get so rotten you cant see the faces any more.



A question from your O.C.C.O.C.P. If you leave something in your refrigerator so long it stops stinking does it classify as a prop or jerky?

It is custom around my house to:

To make as many Halloween items as inhumanly possible, causing my hands to be calloused, my body to be scared, my eyes to be blacked with circles, and lots of baggage from lack of sleep, my back to ache, my hair to tangle from my over-all lack of caring what the heck I look like, and my bank account to threaten foreclosure.

To obsess about Halloween day and night.

Decorate the house inside and out with as much Halloween decorations, props, and hand made Halloween items as possible, so that you can't see walls, furniture, yard, boyfriend, children, and pets.

To fill the house with as much candy corn candy dishes as possible, so you can smell all the sickeningly sweet confections clear out to the street. To intice all innocent by-standers to be compelled to find it's sorce to the point of madness.

To obsess about Halloween.

To wish, pray, hope, cast spells.....or any other thing I can think of, for no rain, lots of fog, and a full moon on Halloween night.

To scare the crap out of ANYONE, and EVERYONE, including my cohorts in the scarefest of Halloween night(and several days before....hehehe). Actually ANY opportunity that arises to give anyone a heart-wrenching,eye-popping, wet-your-pant's scare, I WILL ALWAYS SEIZE!!!
And drink as much "Zombie Brew" as I can while doing it, without passing out

To obsess about Halloween.

To "Test" my fog/chiller machine in my back yard several times just for the fun of it.

To watch as many scary movies as I can, some being ritualistic, the Evil dead trilogy, Exorcist, the old B/W of the Haunting, several Dracula movies I have, and pre-recorded Scariest Places. I also watch as many Haunted America show's as possible.....and of course It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown.

To make the best and most frightening hand-made costume we possibly can conceive and create.

Do my ritual whinning, "I want a haunted house!!!"

And of course, obsess about Halloween.

Some of these traditions are only traditions in my head....I don't really drink that much "Zombie Brew".....LOL



"The banshee shrieks with WICKED delight, on this, a cold and death filled night!"

For me it was always Knott's Berry Farm's Halloween Haunt. I'm talking a whole giant Southern California amusement park bathed in blue and green light and choked in fog from a couple of thousand fog machines; terror mazes everywhere and live monsters poping out of every dark corner. There were Halloween-themed shows everywhere, and it was the only place in the country where you could see Elvira, Mistress of the Dark live. I used to look forward to Halloween Haunt every year! Now, of course, I work as a costumed monster at a similar event at the Queen Mary in Long Beach. But as much fun as that is, it isn't exactly the same.

Your friendly neighborhood Wizard

I agree with you David. Its the working part thats makes the place loose all its magic. For years I went to a local Halloween Shop and then Four Years ago I got a job there. Now all the Magic is gone and I dont see the place how I did Before. With that time of year all I can think about is what new costumes will they have this year and how much will I buy. Has anyone ever been to Universal Studos Halloween Horror night? Is it good?