Why Halloween's Really British - Anglophenia Ep 41 

Here in America it's pretty common knowledge that if the porch light is on that means there is candy. :)

your lipstick looks amazing

Lol did no one else notice the Siobhan outline on the candy lady?

In Scotland we still call it Guising and we still have to perform a joke or song for sweets

Absolutely love this channel! I love the personalities and the info on everything UK! My grandmother was from Birmingham, and I've always wanted to visit. Thank you for putting out such awesome content! Plus, the ladies are a totally lush! Seriously! Keep up the great work!

A very informative video, as usual! Thank you! :-)

Enjoyed this a lot!

actually its celebrated on 31st October in Ireland and Irish Emigrants spread it to the US and around the world after the Potato Famine.

The Scottish Celts of course came from Ireland, thus Halloween is originally an Irish celebration. It was celebrated here in Ireland first and then brought over.

This has just become my most favorite RU-vid video. And it took less than 30 seconds! Christ, I love this broad!

'Mwhahaha....' - love the way you express yourself! I'm a huge fan of yours, Katie. Now I'm away from my beloved part of the world, I've been finding comfort in videos featuring anything English:) Keep up the good work and always looking forward to the next one.

Great video! Samhain is my favourite time of the year too

This is the best channel. I am looking into going on an exchange to England in my second year of high school and I'm an American noob. BLESS THIS CHANNEL

Loving your posts, as an exPat Scot, who’s lived in the USA for 55 Years, watching these, brings back many fond memories. Besides ‘Dunking’ for Apples,there was the Treacle piece, a slice of bread usually held my string from the laundry rack, then lowered to the children’s height. Got pretty much messy. But funny. Looking forward for more clips. Thanks.

Celebrate by waiting till after halloween and getting discounted halloween candies

My brother and I used to say "trick or treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat"

The sky is blue the grass is green have you got a penny for Halloween? If you haven't got a penny a fiver will do, if you haven't got a fiver then God bless you.

She is infectiously adorable❤️❤️❤️

So very informative, love this

I'm Scottish which is where it started and I have to correct loads of people when they say trick-or-treating, guising sounds so much better and more like a real verb!

I found this channel 10 minutes ago and i love it,because i can improve my british english. Why it is great you ask ? I love the brits a lot ! Keep up the great work

What do you use to edit videos? Please answer :)

1:18 Polish tombstones

Ok. First of all we call this celebration Día de Muertos (Death Day) and what we used to do is putting an 'offering' into the table or even ground and we decorate with food that our loved ones used to like. We also add some tangarine, reed, orange and the special bread which is called Pan de Muetos (Death Bread) this breas is only available on this month, a tipical flower and some candles and skeletons. If I could show you an image to see it would be better but I cant. It is a Mexican tradition. I'm mexican by the way. I hope you can see my comment and answer :). I love your videos ♡

There were no 'Celts', the peoples in the region known as Scotland were The Picts believed to have traveled from Ireland. Samhain was believed to have been celebrated at the turn of the new Lunar year which is shorter than that denoted by the Gregorian calendar. It differs to the celebration of Halloween which was the Eve of All Hallow's, All Hallow's Day being November 1st in the Christian calendar. It is culturally celebrated on Oct 31st due to popular interest. There are many theories that it began at the site of Tlachtga (Hill of Ward) in Athboy, Co. Meath, Ireland, approx. 14 miles from Tara and Lough Crew and approx. 30 miles from Uisneach believed to be the centre of Ireland. Recent archaeological explorations have uncovered many interesting finds at this site, dating as far back as the Neolithic period. One of these such finds was evidence of extensive burning over prolonged periods of time and of great heat intensity. Who knows what this truly means but for now we are happy to accept that Samhain as celebrated by our ancestors may well have begun in Athboy, Co. Meath and for now that's okay. Check out Samhain Festival of Fire on Facebook if you're interested....

I myself am an Eclectic Pagan! So you guessed it! I celebrate Samhain! But I also celebrate Day of The Dead that day as well. The veil is the thinnest and easier to communicate with the dead. We do a big feast as well as a ritual to honor our beloved ancestors! Have an awesome Halloween my dear!

Love you! You're nuts! So as a true Brit, (who has French and Spanish and Irish roots), I've subb'd 😀

Great video! :-D

-_- the celts were spread all across europe, not just Scotland. these arent scottish traditions they are celtic traditions

Here on the Texas/Tamaulipas border, we celebrate both Halloween and the Mexican Dia de los Muertos. It's nice.

Many of the tradition from Halloween originated in Ireland, while undoubtedly many of the customs would have existed in Scotland too as both countries share a common cultural heritage. However this video excludes Ireland and states that it's a solely Scottish invention, which is totally untrue.

You are gorgeous! And I love your accent! Halloween trick-or-treating is fading away in the US for a lot of reasons. Small kids still do it, but always under the watchful eye of a parent. Growing up in the 1960s we'd trick-or-treat on our own until the streetlights came on. I don't bother giving out candy on Halloween because in past years only 2 or 3 sets of kids have showed up on Halloween.

Halloween is sort of a love/hate relationship for us since my friends and I live close to Salem. We love Halloween, but we hate all the tourists.

lol that ''evil'' laugh at the beginning was amazing xD

Very good video. British history and culture are awesome. In Spain we are starting to celebrate halloween but there are still a lot of "antitrick-or-treaters". Congratulations from Spain.

I take the chain off my chainsaw and hide in the bushes. When the kids get to the door i step out and crank r up.... A camo jump suit and jason mask is my costume. About half totally freeze in utter horror and the other half throw their candy at me and run....lol.... But the best hands down are the moms and grandmothers out walking with their kids... they scream and hide behind their men who just laugh and tell me to kill her.... lol.... Good times.

In my area growing up there were (and still are) unofficial rules/traditions for tricker-treating. First off, no trickertreating before the sun was mostly down. Next, no costume = no candy; this mostly applied to teenagers who tried to get away with only wearing the 'This is my costume!' t-shirts. If someone wasn't already sitting outside with the bowl of candy (I lived in a temperate place, enjoying the night and watching the costumed people walk by was common) you checked for a porch light (light by or above the front door); if it was on you rang the bell or knocked, if it was off you left the house alone whether or not they had decorations. Cul-de-sacs usually had a fire-pit that the cul-de-sac residents gathered around, each family brought the candy bowl with them so you didn't go door knocking, you went to the fire-pit and they usually had spiked warm drinks for the adults taking the kids around. The final bit was if you weren't going to be home to hand out candy (usually single parent households) but you were taking your kid around, you were expected to leave your porch light on and a bowl of candy by the door so kids could grab some; most of these bowls had 'Please, only take one.' signs that worked with varying success.

I like how the screencap of All Saints Day at 1:19 is actually Zaduszki in on Polish cemetary (Polish version of All Saints Day).

Wrong Halloween is Irish, Samhain is truly Irish.

lol! David Bowie as the Gobblin King at 0:48! Love it!

It's 5:20 in the morning and I'm dead tired. I was on another video but then I accidentally clicked on this video on my touch screen and after that jump scare at the beginning, I am most certainly, absolutely, 100% awake for the next century haha...

We need more videos please come back

technically its spelt hallowe'en the "en" is an abbreviation of evening... so it translates to the evening before all hallows 👍

When I was a kid in Scotland, we still all went guising, not trick-or-treating.

Forget the apple peel. If you're looking for a spouse, my name is Richard! This woman is hot enough to make me want to move to that dreary rain swept island.

Her lips are absolutely beautiful.

I have always loved Halloween and my family are from Scotland, though my mothers hatered of the event meant we never celebrated Halloween except when staying with my grandparents. thank you for the insight as to why. I missed Halloween dress up this year due to work but will make up for it with a vengeance next. I really enjoy anglophenia and again thank you for this episode and all the others

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In Kentucky and Tennessee, USA (states I have lived in) the universal sign for candy is the front porch light is turn on. When you run out of candy or just can't/don't want to participate you turn your porch light off. oops, just saw this a few messages down. A friend told us in Des Moines, Iowa the kids have to tell a joke to get candy. They don't say Trick or Treat. Lately, we have been asking kids for a joke and it's been fun

Binge watching Anglophenia right now 😂

Why is it I'd go bobbing and snogging with Kate?

Nov. 1 my bday! Such an awesome day to have a bday as a kid

We make the month of it, putting up a decoration a day. We pick pumpkins as a family, hit some haunted houses or corn mazes, watch horror movies, make witches brew (spiced cider) and of course trick or treating.

I could listen to her forever

An interesting fact is that in Mexico exists a similar festivity "Day of the Dead" that it is celebrated on November 1 and 2 and as it happened to Halloween it was syncretized with the catholic festivity of All Saints' Day (prior the colonization of the Americas it was celebrated in the beginning of the summer) Traditions connected with the holiday include building private altars called ofrendas, honoring the deceased using sugar skulls, marigolds, and the favorite foods and beverages of the departed, and visiting graves with these as gifts. Visitors also leave possessions of the deceased at the graves.

When a child in the Welsh valleys we carved swedes and called them Jack-o-lanterns, and ducked apples suspended on string from door lintels or sometimes in tin baths of water.

Kate, you are just amazing! What a pity we don't celebrate Halloween in my country!!!

Very interesting.

thank you

REFORMATION DAAAAAYYYYY!!!!!!!!! But also, Sting performed a version of "Soul Cake" on his Winter album. It was wonderful!

we used to ho ftom door to door chanting: the sky is blue, the grass is green, have you got a penny for Halloween? if you haven't got a penny, a ha'penny will do, if you haven't got a ha'penny, then god bless you. usually, you'd end up with someone's coppers, but you'd get sweets as well.., we called this 'Halloweening' -but I've not seen it since I moved down south :/

Halloween is Irish not Scottish.

No street celebration in Kuwait. I do love Halloween however, and threw local home party once. Love to do it again.

Here in the Isle of Man kids still have to sing to get sweets (or pennies) and we still carve turnips because we're Celts (and we don't like change)

We do the singing and carving turnips on Saint Martin's day, 11th November, and the children love every bit of it!

I celebrate Samhain :D being pagan my self

Yeah, In the USA its generally safe to trick or treat at houses that have their porch lights on. If there aren't any porch lights then you look for Halloween decorations. Got a few grumps here too.

I wish you guys would've included info about dumb suppers..but over all, the video was good. :)

This channel was underrated

06:18 ...Is it you, Siobhan?

We have the Day of the Dead on November the 2nd here in Mexico, but as I happen to live in the border I get to celebrate both. :)

Halloween is my absolute favorite time of year. I love it so much, that I recently just got married on Halloween. :)

OMG! at 1:10 there's a picture from a cemetery in my hometown, Mikołów!!!! wicked!

Last halloween I handed out smarties boxes with raisins in, this year I've already bought over 80 chocolate oranges and I'm working my way through the chocolate and I'm going to package large oranges inside them and wrap them up carefully and hand them out. It's the perfect trick because by the time they realise they will already be home and probably will forget where I live.

Halloween has become more popular then Christmas, thats not good

Also in Mexico will sing "triky triky Halloween, quiero dulces para mi(I want candies for me)", also "Dia de los Muertos"

I love you, Kate!!!

This year I dressed in my professionally made Masters Robe & Hood with mortar board. Sitting on my porch on my Roman Chair reading Dawking's new biography, with a table beside me showing my double BA & MA. And I gave out small bags of 1 full size and 3-4 mini candy bars. My street is next to one of the 2 Uni's in my town, and almost no families live on my block. So I wanted to get a rep as a house to go to in the neighborhood.

The turnip carving makes much more sense to me now. I'm in the USA and have been part of a historical creation group (sort of medieval larping) since I was little. One time around Halloween the children's activities was carving turnips. I had wondered why they didn't have little pumpkins for us to carve. I'm guessing the adult in charge did their research. :)

lovely singing voice ;)

As a Pagan, Samhain is basically its own season from the beginning of October (when autumn finally starts to kick in) to a bit past Yule. I typically celebrate my sombre, serious Samhain on the full moon before Halloween, let my wild side run loose on the 31st, and then mesh the two for the following two days. Thanksgiving is also a good time to spend with both living and dead loved ones.

We go out for our anniversary :) No trick or treating at the apartment complexes around us.

06:18 oh look its siobhan

We just finished living in London for a couple years, and it was getting to be a bigger and bigger thing, especially in dominantly American neighborhoods. Shops aren't generally decorated and the natives would kind of shrug their shoulders, "We don't really do Halloween here." Decorations were low-key, and sometimes you would get something like a handful of gummy bears.

I love these little shorts. My family did not celebrate Halloween, because my parents considered it to be the devils holiday. Although, we did celebrate Guy Fawkes, since both my parents were part British.Your lipstick is great.

Have you heard of day of the dead a Mexican holiday adopted by the catholic? Awesome video you should do a video on the difference. Awesome video thank you for sharing

I grew up celebrating with Harvest Parties, or a more conservative Christian festival held at a church. No scary costumes were allowed and everything was more about celebrating autumn than the spooky theme of Halloween. I actually really loved it and sometimes help with the one at my nephew's church. There, we do trunk-or-treating where we decorate the boot of our car and pass out candy beside it, so kids can get candy all in one place instead of walking around a neighborhood.

happy Halloween 🎃 🎊

I've heard the apple skin over your shoulder one. It was in a teen novel from the 80s, the girls were doing "witchcraft" at a sleepover party.

My grandmother was raised as a green witch. Her family celebrates Samhain by holding a dumb supper. All the family files in to sit 'round a table, and at the place of honor at the head of the table is placed a meal for the dead. Then, after dinner, my two great grandmothers and their covens would gather in the apple grove, have a bonfire, and perform a ritual to honor the passing of the god and celebrate his eventual return at Yule.

Samhain starts at sunset on 31 October and ends at sunset on 1 November - not having clocks, the celts could not tell when was midnight and so days were measured by something clearly definable like sunset.

we live in the city so we do trunk or treats. usually churches and schools decorate their car and the kids go from car to car trick or treating instead of going house to house. when we lived in a small town we went door to door but in a big city trunk or treat feels slightly safer.

i cant stop watching for so many reasons, but mostly because kate is so dang cute!!

0:01 nearly made me spill my tea!

In the US you can tell if someone has candy for trick-or-treaters if their front porch light is on, because some people will have jack o'lanterns out whether they are handing out candy or not.

00:02 well that just helped contribute to me having 1960s era Julie Andrews related nightmares…

i usually follow the old tradition and light a few candles for loved ones past and then write any negative clouds that followed me over the year on a piece of paper and then burn it. and then in the end i do a cake blessing andon halloween parkin is the traditional sweet and enjoy it with some warmed cordial.Samphain is also known as the witches new year the final notch in the Wheel of the year

Every year my best friend and I throw a Halloween party. This year I'm going as Bruce Banner, and he will be the Hulk.

the last actually good episode

The way she says Rabbie Burns is 🙌🏻👌🏻😂