Wearing a Halloween Costume in My Childhood
In the sixties when I was a child, it was the night of Halloween that I loved the most. When darkness had fallen, we would lather windows with soap, and ring peoples' doorbells, usually in our Halloween costumes.
Sometimes it was neighbors we liked but more likely we would pick those we did not warm to because we knew they would react more angrily and that was the best part.
Sometimes we would ring once or twice and then at other times, 12 times. Then we would hide somewhere nearby and wait for the person to answer again and again, getting angrier each time. If we were lucky he would chase us down the street. And for me looking back, that was what Halloween was all about.
On this great night children had power and adults could do nothing to stop us. Today things have changed and children have even more power and grown ups now frighten children. So for example, every Halloween night, on what is often called witches night, Ian smith from Toronto, sets up a witch one night. The next he adds two tombstones, and finally two skeletons, coming out of the ground.
And more people are starting to spend several hours turning old wood into graveyards and dungeons. These haunters love the test of setting something creepy up, even in small gardens. Home haunting is catching on with theatrical and Gothic mums and dads.
At what other time of year could you place a serial killer in your front garden. People spend months planning their decorations and teasing others in the neighborhood with their creepy displays.
These Halloween decorators have discovered what the film industry has always known and that is that we love a horror story. So for example, if you look closer you will discover that these haunted scenes have a theme that ties the decorations together. One couple staged an alien invasion on a video outside their house. They then took visitors through an alien spaceship that they had built in the back yard. Whether or not people believed them seems not to matter. The fact is, at least on this night, all is taken seriously.
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Sometimes it was neighbors we liked but more likely we would pick those we did not warm to because we knew they would react more angrily and that was the best part.
Sometimes we would ring once or twice and then at other times, 12 times. Then we would hide somewhere nearby and wait for the person to answer again and again, getting angrier each time. If we were lucky he would chase us down the street. And for me looking back, that was what Halloween was all about.
On this great night children had power and adults could do nothing to stop us. Today things have changed and children have even more power and grown ups now frighten children. So for example, every Halloween night, on what is often called witches night, Ian smith from Toronto, sets up a witch one night. The next he adds two tombstones, and finally two skeletons, coming out of the ground.
And more people are starting to spend several hours turning old wood into graveyards and dungeons. These haunters love the test of setting something creepy up, even in small gardens. Home haunting is catching on with theatrical and Gothic mums and dads.
At what other time of year could you place a serial killer in your front garden. People spend months planning their decorations and teasing others in the neighborhood with their creepy displays.
These Halloween decorators have discovered what the film industry has always known and that is that we love a horror story. So for example, if you look closer you will discover that these haunted scenes have a theme that ties the decorations together. One couple staged an alien invasion on a video outside their house. They then took visitors through an alien spaceship that they had built in the back yard. Whether or not people believed them seems not to matter. The fact is, at least on this night, all is taken seriously.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Justin_H_Lee
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