Mastodawn

For a different take on English winter animal #guising #folkcustoms (not quite #mummers, #mumming, #mummering, nor even #marilwyd ... but sort of related, back in antiquity), here's the performance list for a team in the #Whitstable / #Faversham / #HerneBay area.

The Hoodeners Nov 19

Another #introduction, as our previous incarnation on EFDSS's trial folksocial.org migrated to BlueSky losing everything (OK, we'd only made a dozen posts). Our ancient annual #EastKent #folktradition of #hoodening involves visiting houses (mainly public houses, i.e. pubs!) the week before Christmas/Solstice with our #hoodenhorse, performing a short humorous play (written new each year) and a song or two (is #folkmusic right? it's often a parody of a recent pop song). Then we sing community carols and collect donations in our nosebag. For the last sixty years this has been for a local charity rather than ourselves. Everything you wanted to know about #hoodenhorses and #guising (and related #folkcustom or #folklore topics, e.g. #MariLwyd, #wassail) but never dared ask is - probably - contained in hoodening.org.uk, and the #OzaruBooks publications shown there. 🐴

George Macgregor Oct 31

'Halloween', Robert Burns (1785).

I like the following annotation the #BBC has appended to Burns's poem, the opening line of which is:

"American style 'trick or treat' juvenile extortion rackets have largely replaced Scottish guising...." 😀

https://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/robertburns/works/halloween/ #halloween #halloween2025 #guising #poetry #Burns

BBC - Robert Burns - Halloween

Halloween is a poem written by Robert Burns in 1785 and read here by Ralph Riach.

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Assoc for Scottish Literature Oct 31

“It must have been unsettling to answer a knock at the door on a winter’s night and encounter these figures. And that, of course, was the point”

—Skekling, casting kale, driving a flock of sheep into your neighbour’s kitchen(!) & other Shetland guising traditions

https://www.shetland.org/blog/halloween-skekling-in-shetland-and-other-guising-traditions

#Scottish #Scotland #Shetland #Halloween #customs #traditions #folklore #guising

Hallowe'en skekling in Shetland and other guising traditions | Shetland.org

Blogger Catherine Munro gets ready for Halloween by learning more about an old Shetland tradition, and making a skekler hat.

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Cuilfail Oct 31

@Black_Flag Agreed! However the fair exchange in #Guising is the good and one true way for exploring the thin time and places of #Samhain.
#TrickOrTreat can get in the bin along with the rest of the extortive capitalist claptrap

imikotoba 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❤️🇯🇵Oct 30

Not more #Kabocha photos this time, but carved and painted orange pumpkins ready for #guising - Houses with a #pumpkin outside can expect to be treated to visits from trick or treaters in costume (usually with a joke or something). Didn’t fancy carving a more traditional ‘neep instead (turnips or swedes are much harder).

dave cykl Oct 24

Please tell me I did •not• just overhear an advert on the radio in the cafeteria voiced by someone with a #Scottish accent (and therefore probably on an actual Scottish radio station) referring to “our trick-or-treat trail”?!!

It’s #guising you total tumshie!! You certainly ought to ken better! 😒😡

Whatever they were trying to sell, I sure as hell won’t be buying it…

#NaeTrickOrTreat #Samhain #Halloween

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dave cykl Oct 31, 2024

And tonight, of course, the street outside is full of little monsters #guising! 👻🧛🧙🧙‍♂️🧙‍♂️🧟🎃

Ruth Salter Oct 31, 2023

Having a festive first game of Ghosts Love Candy Too, which so far is pretty good tbh. Silly, enjoyable theme - ghosts haunt guisers to steal their candy. Enough strategy for a light game, reckon all the guisers we saw this evening would love it.

#BoardGames #BoardGame #Halloween #Guising #TrickOrTreat