That's interesting, thanks for sharing. Being born and raised in big industrial cities in the Northwest, I was pretty oblivious to that tradition. I do remember though that when I was a small child, we did something like that on vacation in the country once (where there were actual turnip fields). And that was way back when people over here only knew Halloween as a movie title.

Of course I don't celebrate Halloween. Why would I? We have enough traditions of our own in the Netherlands:

11 November St. Maarten (children go door to door for sweets)
5 December Sinterklaas (St. Nicholas), with presents
25 December Christmas (WITHOUT presents!)
and in January (I think it's the 6th) Driekoningen (the three wise men from the East) (children used to go door to door for sweets).

There's no need for more traditions. Especially not if they're fuelled by commercialism (such as gifting presents on Christmas Day).

For me its the fourth year in a row that i celebrate Halloween i quite like the legend behind
Beltaine/Samhain.
Right now preparing the giveaways for the kids or whoever rings the doorbell.
Here in the area the kids arrive in groups while the parents stay behind.
And tomorrow the two pumpkins i bought will see the blade :) still deciding this years look.

No kids will ever steal candies from me. THEY'RE MINE!!

Put needles and razor blades in your candy basket. Problem solved!

Sadly, some people do shit like this.

Croat here. We don't. There are some clubs that have a mild Halloween theme and maybe a few foreign language schools, but nothing even close to the level Americans do it.

We do observe All Saints' Day, as we're a predominantly Christian country (on paper if nothing else).

As a massive horror fan I was always jealous of American Halloween celebrations but now it's getting more popular here in England I'm not too keen, it's just too commercial.

I'm not doing anything for Halloween this year but I will be celebrating Bonfire Night this weekend. I also like to celebrate the Summer and Winter Solstices and complain about this newly imported "Black Friday" nonsense.

Brainwashing people to celebrate standing on graves the same day you would otherwise be spooked about the netherworld and celebrating the end of harvest season didn't work.

Suck it, Christianity.

Here in Venezuela (at least in my city) it's a mixed thing. It's not a tradition to decorate homes or carve pumpkins, though a very small number of people do (most often just for themed parties).

Some stores have been decorating for Halloween for as long as I can remember, though it has become more common in the last couple of decades.

Clubs often throw themed parties for Halloween, this is very common.

When I was a kid, children would not wear costumes for Halloween, but I think some do now.

Trick-or-treating has never been a thing here... and nowadays it's just impossible, this country is not safe enough to have children knocking on people's doors, and with our economic crisis, most Venezuelan families can't afford to buy sweets for themselves, even less to give away to strangers.

Attitudes toward Halloween are mixed too, some think it's fun (me included), some see it negatively as cultural invasion and some are just indifferent to it.

Nah. Halloween here is mostly imported "thing" for the last decade or two maybe. It is merely a reason for grown-ups to go to restaurant to drink, possibly dressed up a bit as vampire or at least have some silly headpiece with horns, because halloween you knows.

The homes are not decorated or kids don't go out to tricky treat here. I normally don't even remember when halloween is supposed to be, somewhere in October I gather.

You mainly see Halloween here in how TV tends to show a few classic horror movies because of Halloween. Yesterday they showed that Nicolas Cage Halloween-themed horror movie where his kid is kidnapped by some dead witch on Halloween etc.

Halloween is not relevant to me, and I don't celebrate it at all. It's fun for kids to play spooky dress up, and sometimes just weird dress up. It's also about candy, which isn't much a part of my life since I grew up.

On the other hand, the history of Halloween is pretty interesting. Plus, I think Halloween spelled backward sounds funny.

I'm certainly not going to celebrate it (pathetic when adults do that imo, all the more so outside the US where Halloween has no deeper roots), but I can't escape it either...I have to pay Danegeld in the form of chocolate bars to the children ringing my door. A few years ago I didn't, and some kiddo threw an egg against my kitchen window.

Australia tried a few years ago when they (politicians) were Americanized and it sort of flopped:)

Halloween is the only holiday I still do celebrate.

I don't even acknowledge birthdays anymore, but I always get up for October 31st.