What is Halloween to you?

[Lovepotion69]

Hi all,
I am considering to write a Halloween based story. As I'm not that used to celebrating Halloween, I'd like to get some input what Halloween is/means to YOU.

If I say the word "Halloween", what do you think about? What are your associations with it?

For those who celebrate it, I'd love to hear personal associations.
A smell. A situation. A tradition in the family. Food? Decorations?

Would really appreciate it.

/LP

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Halloween is a great excuse for me to dress up, put on a gruesome make-up, (I didn't do it enough as a child, apparently!)decorate the house with cobwebs and plastic spiders, color my juice with red food-color, and go out dancing!

Last time, I sew 4 extra arms on a black T-shirt, and tied strings around them and around my wrists. I sew a white cross on the back of the T-shirt, and went as a Black Widow - that poisionous SPider, you know. It was FUN!

Except I was the only one wearing a costume, so I got laughed at a lot, but whatthefuck, people's been laughing at me for ages, it runs off me like water on a goose.

 

[Violette]

The one time of year when my fishnest and "fuck-me" pumps go with EVERYthing the night has to offer!

 

[Violette]

I meant fishNETS! (Damn keyboard!)

 

[Svenskaflicka]

I don't get it why you americans dress up as fairies and celebreties and stuff?

I mean, the point about dressing up on Halloween is (or at least it wa soriginally) to disguise yourself as a horrible demon, so that the real demons will think that you're even more horrible than them, and leave you alone. (Kinda like the gangs are doing in the big citites nowadays.)

 

[Quasimodem]

In my country ...

Er, make that, the country in which I live, we are about to celebrate Thanksgiving, weeks before All Hallow's Eve rolls around.

Still, a peek into this year's celebration, might not be totally inappropriate for this thread.

 

[its Leslie]

Halloween means sore back and tired legs walking with son to get a few candies I would rather have just bought him. Considering I have to give as much away in the first place to other kids who also have parents that likely think the same way I do heheh.

It doesn't mean costumes and parties to me any more, lost that urge when I became to old to get away with it heheh. Plus it costs money. Plus the reason for going to parties was to meet girls.

Now I can just ask my wife if she wants to fuck dressed up silly, or not hehe. And bypass the expense of the party drinking and all that hassle heheh.

 

[JUDO]

Orange and black decorations.
Candles lighting the way for everything.
The promise of something mysterious, mystical and possibly magical.
Getting that prickly feeling on the back of my neck as I walk down the street at night.
A full moon.
Jack-O-lanterns.
Scary places in the dark.
Glowing skeletons.
Graveyards.
Children afraid to look.
Fog in the air (London fog).
The howling of wolves.
The hissing of black cats.
Boiling kettles aglow with green liquid.
The real mixed with the surreal, costumed together on one night of unleashed fantasy.

"Trick or Treat?"