Do they have Halloween in France?

[Simon]

I'm from Belgium (small neighbour-country of France, in America, our capital, Brussels, is more commonly known, or so they say). Here they also try to have Halloween (obviously for commercial reasons) but it doesn't seem to gain any foothold either. Guess we're still pretty old-fashioned here.

greetings

[brad]

Originally Posted by Simon

I'm from Belgium (small neighbour-country of France, in America, our capital, Brussels, is more commonly known, or so they say). Here they also try to have Halloween (obviously for commercial reasons) but it doesn't seem to gain any foothold either. Guess we're still pretty old-fashioned here.

greetings

Welcome to the website Simon! Glad you found us

[aFrenchie]

Originally Posted by nurvonic

and the times have changed here in the states, i guess brad hasnt been able to update it yet

That's what got me. I thought it wasn't changed in the US yet...

Originally Posted by brad

basically, a kid rings your doorbell, and says 'trick-or-treat'

That's part of what subsisted here, without the treating part. Children ask politely (even shyly) and they won't do anything to your house if you don't give them candies . And in my previous post, I wrote at 7-8 am by mistake, it's at around 7-8 pm of course.

Originally Posted by Simon

I'm from Belgium (small neighbour-country of France)

French speaking area? Welcome to the forum.

[O Rly]

Well, we rarely go trick-or-treating in my country, we don't even celebrate that holiday. It's just an excuse to scare people with masks and stuff , it's a fun day even if it's not celebrated.

Oh, and welcome to the forums, Simon!

[Señor Villa]

We do not change the time in Arizona. I think it is an archaic system that needs to be abolished. For Halloween here a lot of kid's go to the malls because it is safer than going door to door. The store merchants give out candy. Last year only one kid rang my bell, so this year I will not pass out chocolate.

[brad]

Originally Posted by nurvonic

and the times have changed here in the states, i guess brad hasnt been able to update it yet

whoops .. just fixed it.

[mibir]

I talked to our exchange student from Denmark. She said that not many kids go trick-or-treating and the ones that do are very young. This seems to be a consistent theme throughout Europe.

[DJ_Greg]

Originally Posted by aFrenchie

That's part of what subsisted here, without the treating part. Children ask politely (even shyly) and they won't do anything to your house if you don't give them candies . And in my previous post, I wrote at 7-8 am by mistake, it's at around 7-8 pm of course.

It's pretty much the same here. If you don't have candy, you don't answer your door. Usually, houses that aren't participating will leave their exterior lights off, as an indication that no one is home or no one is answering the door with free candy.

The vandalism is mostly contained to the night before Halloween. It has different names in different regions...Mischief Night is common, I think. In my town, we called it Goosey Night. But few kids actually do anything beyond maybe toilet-papering someone's car. Some kids will throw eggs or use candle wax, but that was rare where I grew up.

[Simon]

French speaking area? Welcome to the forum.[/QUOTE]

Nope, dutch speaking area (Bruges, near the Belgian coast), although, like most Belgians I speak and understand french quite well (writing is getting another matter, my french grammar is getting a bit rusty)

It looks like this is quite an international forum here

[Spartan500]

here in so cal at least they go crazy with vandilism almost any day of the week but mostly on halloween night.like last year my friends egged anything and anyone they even used paintball guns . i of course was busy taking my little cousin trick or treating but i did join them for a party afterwards isn't halloween great