In some parts of Yorkshire, there is a similar festival called Mischief Night which falls on the 4 November. Children do tricks on adults which range from the minor to more serious such as taking doors off their hinges on this night. The doors were also often thrown into ponds, or taken a long way away. In recent years these tricks have, in some cases, turned into severe acts of vandalism and criminal damage including street fires and destruction of private property.

In England it is said that elves rode on the backs of the villagers' cats. The cats had fun but the villagers did not and would lock their cats up so that the elves could not catch them. The black cat was considered to be bad luck, whereas a white cat was considered to be good luck but in general the black cat is a lucky omen in Britain.

Fairies Children were told not to sit in the circles of yellow and white flowers where fairies have danced as they may be stolen by the fairies. It was also bad to sit under the hawthorn tree since fairies loved to dance on these and if they saw children their tempers would be prickled.



Vegetable Carving Throughout England and the United Kingdom children carve faces into pumpkins (prior to the introduction of the American custom these would have been turnips or swede and in Scotland turnips remain popular). They cut out designs into the vegetable. Then they place them on display in their windows to go along with the scary theme of Halloween. (See article Jack-o'-lantern.) Although carved vegetable lanterns are an old tradition, as a Halloween custom it is fairly recent to Britain, appearing only in the latter half of the twentieth century.

Witchballs are also hung up in English homes, usually by the windows or front/back door and are said to glow if a witch passes by.

Punkie Night This year it would have been 10/26 but we will move it to 10/30 just for you guys!!
"Punkie Night" is observed on the last Thursday in October in the village of Hinton St. George in the county of Somerset in England. On this night, children carry lanterns made from hollowed-out mangel-wurzels (a kind of beet; in modern days, pumpkins are used) with faces carved into them. They bring these around the village, collecting money and singing the punkie song. Punkie is derived from pumpkin or punk, meaning tinder.
Though the custom is only attested over the last century, and the mangel-wurzel itself was introduced into English agriculture in the late 18th century, "Punkie Night" appears to be much older even than the fable that now accounts for it. The story goes that the wives of Hinton St. George went looking for their wayward husbands at the fair held nearby at Chiselborough, the last Thursday in October, but first hollowed out mangel wurzels in order to make lanterns to light their way. The drunken husbands saw the eerie lights, thought they were "goolies" (the restless spirits of children who had died before they were baptized), and fled in terror. Children carry the punkies now. The event has spread since about 1960 to the neighboring village of Chiselborough.

Sources: on-line report from the Western Gazette and a National Geographic radio segment. Chiselborough Fair is memorialized by Fair Place in the village. The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) reported that there was "a fair for horses and cattle on the last Thursday in October."

 

Guy Fawkes Night on the 5th of November, five days after Halloween, is the traditional date for bonfire night in most of the United Kingdom. The popularity of Halloween itself in the UK differs according to the traditions of the constituent nation.

Most of the research was conducted on open source website such as Wikipedia or on tourist sites on England.