fairyworld14 Posted October 14, 2011 Share Posted October 14, 2011 Yes Samhain is a Pagan Festival ! We witches celebrate it every year ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samantha elw Posted October 14, 2011 Share Posted October 14, 2011 When i was young i would go out every year trick or treating with my friends and we would all have turnip/sweede as our lantens. None of us have either a Scotish or Irish backgound. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squiggs Posted October 14, 2011 Share Posted October 14, 2011 Another one for turnips here We'd HEARD of pumpkins, just couldn't afford to waste money buying one to carve up The bonus with carving up turnips is that you can quite easily end up with a very realistic severed finger to finish your hallow'een look perfectly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hockeybear Posted October 14, 2011 Share Posted October 14, 2011 yep, turnips here too in the mid 70's but we didn't go trick or treating, we re-used the lantern on 5th Nov at the Caldwell lane bonfire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
actionman Posted October 14, 2011 Share Posted October 14, 2011 yes i remember my mum carving me a turnip lantern in mid 70`s. she`s must`ve had arms like samson back then!! try it!! you just never saw pumpkins and all the merchandise that comes with halloween now in the shops. just an american thing now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nagel Posted October 14, 2011 Share Posted October 14, 2011 Halloween parties were all about apples too. You'd go out on the street with your turnip lantern and a plastic mask, then it would be round to someone's house for games of apple bobbing (trying to eat them floating in a basin filled with water) or eating apples hunkg on strings, plus lots of treacle toffee. We never did trick or treating. There was something called Mischief Night the day before Halloween when all the local kids would cause general mischief in the area. Removing gates from their posts was a favourite as was tying cotton to someone's door knocker and pulling on it whilst hid across the road Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob-young Posted October 14, 2011 Share Posted October 14, 2011 Yep turnips were our halloween laterns, which we took out again to the local bonfire on the 5th nov. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerbyTup Posted October 15, 2011 Share Posted October 15, 2011 No. Never carved a Swede at Halloween. Once threatened a Norwegian with a knife - sometime around the end of October - but never carved a Swede. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cazza Posted October 15, 2011 Share Posted October 15, 2011 yes we had turnips for lanterns when i was a child many moons ago we were told pumpkins are american we have turnips just thought it was the norm we would all have a go at digging the turnip out and mum would use all that came out in the stew the next day waste not want not as she would say ,and no i have no scottish connections Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparkler61 Posted October 15, 2011 Share Posted October 15, 2011 We used to carve turnips out for halloween in the early 70's, really sore palms of the hands using a spoon, it took ages. Then we tried to get a little 'well' in the bottom to give the tall candle something to sit in. Then we saved it for the 5th November. I was only in my early teens then, don't ever remember seeing pumpkins, turnips were the norm. Had to fit a long string so the heat didn't burn our hand. No Scottish or Irish roots from me but the boy next door had an Irish father and it was their family where I first came across the lantern. I don't remember having a lantern in the 60's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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