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Post by littlemama on Oct 31, 2015 20:26:19 GMT
Devil's night, except in the city of Detroit, where they have taken to calling it Angels night in hopes it will deter people from burning the city down.
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Post by Zee on Oct 31, 2015 20:45:12 GMT
Beggars Night. It isn't always the night before Halloween - but it usually is. That is when the kiddos trick or treat. Iowa is nutty like that. Almost every town sets a "Beggars Night" for the kids to TorT and it is never on Halloween. Nuts. Do you know why they do it the night before? I find it so odd that some places do Hallowe'en before Hallowe'en... what happens on Hallowe'en? It's not all of Iowa, it depends on your town. Some towns have big parades and parties on Halloween night, so the official trick or treat is the night before. I've lived in towns that did it both ways. But I really prefer ToT to be on Halloween. I just learned about Mischief Night here in SE PA yesterday, never heard of it before.
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Post by cmpeter on Nov 1, 2015 0:09:57 GMT
October 30th.
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Post by anniebeth24 on Nov 1, 2015 0:14:20 GMT
We've always called it Devil's Night. Grew up near Detroit and heard it more when I was younger. We had to bring our Halloween pumpkins inside for fear that they would be smashed. Lots of soaping of windows, eggs thrown at houses, toilet-papering trees.
Nothing too harmful in my suburban neighborhood, but some Detroiters took it too far - lots of arson.
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Post by Gravity on Nov 1, 2015 0:33:46 GMT
October 30
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Post by njinkerbelle on Nov 1, 2015 0:43:29 GMT
Goosie Night, a local north jersey thing.
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Post by pierogi on Nov 1, 2015 1:02:25 GMT
Mischief Night, of course! I grew up in Maryland, and apparently this is a mid-atlantic thing. The craziness got so bad in some towns that they had to institute a curfew. The wildest stories I heard were always from New Jersey. Not sure why this custom was contained in some parts of the country, and not in others.
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Post by giatocj on Nov 1, 2015 1:22:46 GMT
Cabbage Night here.
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Post by bdawnb on Nov 1, 2015 1:31:13 GMT
This year we called it Friday. ha! That was what I was going to say. I've never heard anyone call it anything special.
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Post by peasapie on Nov 1, 2015 1:31:16 GMT
Mischief night. Kids in my area have been soaping windows and festooning the trees with toilet paper for as long as I can remember.
ETA: I grew up in Central New Jersey.
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Post by BlueDiamond on Nov 1, 2015 4:04:24 GMT
Same answer as littlemama: formerly Devil's Night, now it is Angel's Night (suburb of Detroit)
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Post by scrapaddie on Nov 1, 2015 4:08:20 GMT
The night before Halloween or Halloween Eve. Maybe I live in a bubble but I don't recall an over abundance of destruction or pranks...either in the past or currently. Although with it falling on a weekend this year I'm sure last night was more rowdy than a typical Friday night. The eve of the eve. Halloween is short for all hallows eve. When I was a kid there was soaping up windows but that was about it. And we all had to go wash them the next day anyway whether we did or not.
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Post by scrappinmom3 on Nov 1, 2015 4:15:57 GMT
Devil's night.
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Post by mvavw on Nov 1, 2015 5:40:00 GMT
The area I lived in in high school called it Gate Night. I lived in Brooklyn up until then, and all "mischief" took place on Halloween itself. You trick-or-treated until junior high/hs age, then you went out shaving cream and egging (mostly to each other).
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Post by oaksong on Nov 1, 2015 6:26:45 GMT
Adding this to the list of new things I've learned from the Peas, right alongside homecoming mums. I've never heard of any of this.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2015 6:27:37 GMT
They call it October 30th.
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Nov 1, 2015 12:01:15 GMT
Mischief night.
But no one let's their children out.
I guess decades ago it was about toilet papering bushes and soaping cars.
Now thugs rob people and throw bricks through business windows.
Police are out and pretty much stop anyone who looks like they are doing anything suspicious.
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Post by compeateropeator on Nov 1, 2015 13:56:13 GMT
Thanks to everyone for all the responses. I have admit I was surprised (and it totally made me laugh) at all the Oct 30th responses. I never guessed it was mainly regional and that there were a lot of places that didn't have a "cabbage night". As others have mentioned, most often the pranks were/are harmless like tp'ing and soap on the Windows type things. Sometimes it progressed to the semi-bad egging and shaving cream type incidents. Then there were always a few jerks who smashed pumpkins and destroyed decorations, but that was not (is not) common. I alway enjoy hearing about regional traditions. And as someone else said they sometimes amaze and intrigue me. Thanks to all the Peas for taking time to provide a diverse and interesting education, it is greatly appreciated (and revered)!
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Post by lesley on Nov 1, 2015 14:02:33 GMT
It's called Kick e'door-ie night here. Where kids knock on doors and run away, pelt houses and people with raw eggs and generally make a nuisance of themselves. I had thought it was dying out but there were quite a few gangs roaming round town last night and I know the police were making arrests. It's quite horrible and really upsets the older folk. I'm quite surprised to hear of Devil's night and Mischief night. I hadn't expected this sort of thing to be international for some reason. This surprises me gillyp, we don't have any such tradition in the Central Belt. (Mind you, these activities could happen any night of the year with no 'excuse'!)
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Post by maryland on Nov 1, 2015 14:06:59 GMT
Nothing. We just do Halloween here.
One year there was a group of teenage girls that went around destroying peoples Halloween decorations. I believe they were caught. Other than that, not much vandalism here.
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Post by rainangel on Nov 1, 2015 15:38:19 GMT
We don't have a name for it. We've only celebrated Halloween in Norway for a few years though, so it's all pretty new for us.
But reading the replies in this post makes me wonder if there wasn't an episode of Criminal Minds called Devil's Night? About an arsonist?
And if it's called Devil's Night; is it called that because it brings out the crazies, or does the crazies come out because it's cool to be crazy on Devil's Night? Like a self-fulfilling prophecy?
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