Thanks for that. I ended up in a wiki journey.
Comment on Most of the trick-or-treaters have been skipping my house, and I finally figured out why
boonhet@lemm.ee 3 days agoI got a knock last night. I had to apologize and say there’s no candy - I don’t live in the US. We have our own similar traditions on St. Martin’s day and St. Catherine’s day. The article for the latter even describes it: Wiki, though for either day you can click on the Estonian Wikipedia article to get a more complete description.
I suppose in the coming years I’ll have to start stocking candy for Halloween too because I don’t really want to disappoint a bunch of kids. Though to be fair, I don’t think they did much trick or treating anyway, they mostly just opened their bag and asked for candy - so it felt kinda lazy. When I was a kid, I remember groups of kids would come knock on our door for either Mardipäev or Kadripäev and they’d usually have something like a song or dance prepared, or at least told us riddles.
yeah@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Zoot@reddthat.com 3 days ago
In the US all you are supposed to do is Knock and say “Trick or Treat”.
If I were you, just turn the porch light off. Its the universal sign for “Not home/No candy”