Halloween has the potential to be eerie. However, some doors present a friendly façade and may even seem welcoming:
Other entrances appear more spooky and, as night falls, will take on an eerie aspect:
It is when night falls that darkness encroaches and lanterns are lit. The light flickers and casts an eerie light.
Skeletons abound surrounded by surreal light.
At times these skeletons seem almost friendly when ferocious-looking visages look on, scaring away evil spirits:
But no skeletons are as gruesome as those lying in pathways lit by a lone light.
Halloween has the potential to be eerie. But each time I walk the streets on 31 October I focus, not on the eerie and gruesome aspects of the event, but on the laughter and chatter of the children trick or treating.
Did you celebrate Halloween?
(This post was inspired by the Weekly Photo Challenge hosted by WordPress)
Ooh, that last one would certainly spook me out 🙂
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I do admit to having jumped a little when I first saw it. What the photo doesn’t show is that the hand sometimes moves.
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Spectacularly ghoulish effects!
Strange that it remains a low-key thing in South Afrca, and Trick or Treat-ing simply doesn’t happen at all.
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It is very big here Colonialist. Many people decorate their homes, adults and children dress up, and of course many participate in the trick-or-treating.
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I am sure kids had lots of fun 🙂 Did you give a lot of candy away? My post is different from WPC theme. I wanted to show what is done in my part of the world on All Saint’s Day 😉
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As we live in an apartment building, we do not individually give out candy (it is done at the rental office). However, I do take my children out. And while they do the trick-or-treating I enjoy taking pictures of them and the decorations.
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🙂
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Happy Halloween. That’s so cute.
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Thank you Cocomino. Do people celebrate Halloween in Japan?
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They’re cute and colorful rather than eerie to me.. 😀
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It is very hard to find eerie on Halloween. I was looking through my pictures and see a lot of smiling faces – on pumpkins as well as faces. 🙂
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It’s all right. I love positive atmosphere as well. 🙂
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When our girls were young, they always went trick-or-treating, but we didn’t really “celebrate” Halloween in any way. Their friends would come over and we’d put on an age-appropriate scary movie (and not the yucky ones at all) and they’d all trade candy and have fun. Now that they’re not around, we usually sit outside if it’s relative nice and hand out candy. I wasn’t home for it this year and I’m fine with that. Christmas, Thanksgiving and Easter are my holidays. :-0
janet
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I agree with you on the preferred holidays. I did not grow up with Halloween but I do take the children out trick-or-treating and dress them up in costumes so that they can feel a part of the Canadian culture. Now Christmas is totally different – we decorate, we cook, we spend time together as a family. I love it.
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Christmas is my favorite holiday, too. Just so it doesn’t start until after Thanksgiving. 🙂
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Lovely Halloween doors… I love Halloween… In my culture we don’t celebrate dear Colline. But this is amazing and beautiful celebration. Thanks and Love, nia
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It is beautiful to see a community celebrate something together Nia. And people are so welcoming to the young trick-or-treaters.
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Australia doesn’t do Halloween, though many kids or teenagers are trying to get it started, but we consider it someone else’s holiday. We do all the others, Christmas, New Year, Easter, that is about it. I like your visual recreation of it.
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Seems to me it is more a North American holiday. While growing up in South Africa nobody followed the tradition.
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Fun post. That last shot is certainly creepy. This was really the year for lawn and home decor. It gets wilder every year.
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This year we walked through a different part of our neighbourhood and it was fun to see different scenes that had been set on the lawns.
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Creepy but effective Colline – well done!
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Thank you Tina 🙂
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It sure looks like Halloween is alive and well in your area, Colline. The Halloweens where the streets are teeming with little ghouls and witches are gone, at least in this area. Parties at schools, churches, and homes have all but replaced trick or treating. Although I’m sure the little ones have a good time, I just don’t think it will ever equal the fun of going door to door. Still, they won’t miss what they don’t know.
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It is still alive and well in our area. And it is this that I enjoy about the evening. The parties are not as much fun – and the children don’t have as good a time. And they need to get in a little exercise before they eat all that candy 🙂
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Halloween is not much followed here in Australia, Ana and I had a big basket of lollies set aside for the door knockers and not one little shit knocked on our door all night.
Ba Humbug
Next year I will have a basket of eggs ready in case anyone comes to our door hehe
Regards
Ian
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Seems to be more of a Northern Hemisphere activity than a Southern one 🙂
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