Trick OR Treat

[Graeme]

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[HansV]

Thankfully, Halloween and trick or treat are not customary where I live (yet), although commercial interests are trying to introduce it...

[Graeme]

I've never been a fan. But I did find this Halloween/Astronomy article this morning which I thought was interesting:

Graeme

[HansV]

The pagan roots of our holidays are deep!

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...commercial interests are trying to introduce it...

In which case, enjoy the peace and quiet while you can, it's everywhere over here.

Ken

[GeoffW]

I remember a cartoon once when the character stated that Halloween must be over, because Christmas stuff was already in the shops.

Now the Christmas stuff is in the shops perhaps a month before Halloween.

[ChrisGreaves]

I've never been a fan ...

I have long been a fan of Nevile Shute and in (I think) the volume "So Disdained" his hero speaks of "quarter-days". The hero worked as a manager for a Lord of some description, and quarter-days were days when tenant farmers rolled up at the manor house to pay rent.
Can anyone elaborate on this? I suppose that the manor's quarter-days did not have to coincide with the astronomical quarter-days, although the rents might have been perceived as astronomical.
Thanks, Chris

[HansV]

Quarter Day definition

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...Christmas stuff is in the shops perhaps a month before Halloween.

It is normal to see Christmas cards on sale in a certain shop York in August.

Ken