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Apparently originated in Canada in the 1920s, who copied it from "(dis)guising" from Scotland/Ireland.
involved kids singing at a door around October, or November.
After which they'd get cakes and lemonade English people claimed it was a weird invention from the US when it came over in the 1980s. Scots and Irish though it was just a weird resurgence of Guising.
Not native to the UK, we used to put candles in turnips. It migrated to the US and they changed it to a pumpkin and we took it back that way
Kids used to wheel around a straw effigy and ask "penny for the guy" but apparently (according to BBC and Wikipedia) it's a new invention (1910) invented by Big Fireworks to sell fireworks on 5th November to kids as "Fireworks Night". |
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