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Halloween vs All Saints' Day in Poland [48]
(look up 'gate night' or modern 'devil's night')
I looked up Mischievous Night on Wikipedia and was delighted to see that similar things happen in the US and Canada. Like the UK, it's regional too.
The best treats were homemade things like candy apples or popcorn balls or rice krispie squares.
One of the few things I miss from Northern England are bonfire toffee (black, shiny and translucent, a drag to make so only a thing at this time of year) and toffee apples covered in thin red toffee..
corporate actions removed the homemade items
Same in the UK, however there it's all about pound shops becoming full of plastic pumpkins from China. Cheap and shiny, the lowest common denominator but easy to buy.
Where I was, it was monocultural (people with -ski or -czuk in their names didn't really count) and there was a limit to the naughtiness kids could get away with since everyone knew your parents and the stern schoolteachers with their canes all lived locally and were watching.
