Talk:Halloween/Archive 3

message: It doesn't seem like the article mentions other Hallowe'en celebrations besides trick or treating.
What about Hallowe'en parties for almost everyone who is too old to go trick-or-treating?
Every Hallowe'en there is usually plenty of night clubs that have Hallowe'en themed nights (often on the closest Fri. or Sat. to the 31st).
I think we should add that in.
Drdestiny77 12:13, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Hallowe'en Celebrations

message: Anyone else think the holiday box at the top of the article looks, well, ugly? I admit it's at least slightly more useful than many infoboxes people are trying to cram onto articles, but geez does it look rather poorly put togther. Think it's the bright orange in certain spots bumping up against the orange photo and the just boxy nature of it and ugh. DreamGuy 02:53, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: The infobox/template

message: I was looking at the diff for Walloon's latest edit, but don't see what's changed.  Am I being blind here?  - Piquan 22:50, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: He removed some double spaces after periods and changed a couple hyphens into em dashes.  --Pascal666 00:38, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  What was Walloon's latest edit? 

message: There were two images under 'Symbols'; a jack-o-lantern and this one:
I removed this one from the page because, although it's a cool photo, pumpkins aren't really symbols of Halloween, but rather the raw material from which a common symbol of Halloween is carved.  And, of the two photos (which together sort of mess up the layout), this one seemed the less-relevant.
If someone wants to add it to the page for 'pumpkins', though, you have my support.
--Andymussell 01:21, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  removed pumpkin pic under "Symbols" heading 

message: I've grown up in two states in Australia and I have never seen kids going around asking for candy, nor have I seen anyone make pumpkin lantens. I think the consensus in Australia is that we know it exists, but we are quite passive when it comes to observing it.
Not all that passive when it comes to Halloween and Aussies, I've awnserd this...but will repeat it:
Well, yes we do (it is also called DANGER NIGHT in OZ), but not all over Australia (not sure about NZ)...but us aussies sure do! In Adelaide, every so often they have a festivle that features dark attractions, jack-o-lantens ect, not sure if it still happens but they had it in on Halloween 2001, 2002 and 2003. You won't see as many houses decorated for the event in every suburb, but still I've seen various houses decorated for the event and occasionly on Halloween people have arrived at my house for lollies and treats dressed up and on cable they have horror movie marathons on the movie channels every Halloween, I've also seen a few retail shops with signs that say "Halloween Red Hot Sales" (especially in thrift stores, such as cheap as chips). So it's safe to say it is celebrated here in OZ, but not as much as the U.S. and Canada. Since it's becoming more popular in the country, maybe in this article it could mention something about Halloween and how it has recently grown bigger in Australia. Here are a few websites that sums most of it up:
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Regards Jackp 14:13, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: While I'll grant that Hallowe'en is celebrated in Australia, Where in Australia is it called "Danger Night"? I've never heard it called that and consider myself reasonably well versed in local customs at least. --Brother William 06:25, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hallowe'en in Oz? 

message: Are there any special pumpkins you need to create a jack-o-lanten. The ones I see in supermarkets are mostly a green colour, is there some sort of special pumpkin, I'm not from the U.S. and don't know too much about it. Jackp 15:02, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Pumpkins in North America have almost always been orange. A green pumpkin is unripe. How to ripen a green pumpkin. — Walloon 16:10, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

text: As Walloon said, orange is typical in the USA--usually the biggest ones you can manage.  Little ones are usually better for cooking--much tastier than the big orange pumpkins in the USA.  There are pumpkin varieties that are green when ripe enough to eat, so that might be what you're running into.Dogface 15:11, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pumpkins 

message: How often is it celebrated in Canada? Is it as much as the US, and what are some of the superstions in the country?? Jackp 04:30, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Halloween in Canada 

message: The popular literature over the last century or so has given birth to the near universal assumption that Samhain, now associated with the Roman Catholic theme and folkways of Hallowe'en, was the "Celtic New Year". A number of sources including both the work of scholarly historians and Neopagan writers have begun to place this assertion under the microscope. In his exhaustive study of the folk calendar of the British Isles "Stations of the Sun"(Oxford University Press, 1996), the historian Ronald Hutton points out that there are no references earlier than the 18th century in either church or civic records which attest to this usage. My point here is that although it may be generally correct to refer to Samhain as "Summer's End", this point of descent into the year's darkness may need better proof for us to cite this "end" as also being a "beginning". On the other hand, there -is- a huge volume of proof of the western world, including late Celtia, as having begun their calendars either at the end of December or around March 25th - at various periods far back through and before Medieval times.  (added to the main article 7/11/06 byEarrach)
:I edited this lightly and set it as a sub-subsection with a fresh title. --Wetman 00:00, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: "Celtic New Year" Factoid

message: *"It is common for the Irish police force (the gardai) to confiscate the fireworks and use them for themselves." Unnecessarily contentious and uninformative.
*"USA" is not required, especially when a city is linked*Edited "Factoid" subsection. --Wetman 23:59, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Removed

message: This redirects to this page. In parts of Yorkshire (e.g. Harrogate, Leeds, Bradford) there is a separate mischief night celebration that IIRC is on the day after Halloween. It's basically trick or treat without the treat in the middle class areas and an excuse to throw fireworks at the police in rougher parts. The rest of the country has never heard of it, even Middlesborough does not have a mischief night.GordyB 13:19, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ooops I got the date wrong, it is 4 November, I suggest that the redirect is removed and a seperate mischief night article is created. Linkies , . GordyB 13:29, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Mischief night

message: I added more information to this section that covers the United States as a whole as well as how Halloween has become more profitable for retailers in recent years. This section only had info for a few cities in the U.S. I Also changed the title to Halloween in the United States as this section gives no info on Halloween for Canada and Mexico.Lobot72 01:22, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Halloween in North America