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Assoc for Scottish Literature @[email protected] · 2025-10-31 · 15:10 UTC

“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

#guising #folklore #traditions #customs #halloween #shetland

Assoc for Scottish Literature @[email protected] · 2025-10-31 · 15:10 UTC

“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

#guising #folklore #traditions #customs #halloween #shetland

Cuilfail @[email protected] · 2025-10-31 · 09:57 UTC

@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

#trickortreat #samhain #guising

Ruth Salter @[email protected] · 2023-10-31 · 21:22 UTC

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