Halloween in the UK is a very toned down affair compared to the hysteria and mayhem that happens in North America. We do have some traditions like dressing up and trick or treat, but they're done a little differently. Of course things may have changed now, but when I was a kid, your costume had to be scary, (it's Halloween after all) and we didn't go door to door collecting candy or sweets, no thank you...we collected money. In my neck of the woods we would say "please help Marie Curie", having no idea who she was. This is particularly bad as it sounded like we were collecting money for charity... we weren't.
