Pumpkins and trick-or-treating — Halloween has become truly Americanised over the past couple of decades.
Pumpkins are for softies, so easy to carve, unlike a good old rock-hard turnips which often resulted in blood all over the kitchen, if not an actual trip to A&E.
You had to actually perform a bit when you were guising, and the rewards were much smaller. No huge bags of coloured sugar automatically forthcoming.
Costumes nowadays? Just buy something online.
A thousand ways with a bin liner has definitely had its day.
Dooking for apples? Ugh, wet! And the apples are real right, not made out of sugar? Ugh!
We’ve haunted the P&J archives to see what folk were getting up to for Hallowe’en over the past few decades.
Photo gallery: Halloween at Aberdeen schools in 60s, 70s and 80s
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Photos: Halloween at Aberdeen schools in 60s, 70s and 80s
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