Why Do We Go Trick-or-Treating on Halloween? ... Guisers went door to door and earned food treats or money by offering a small performance, like telling a joke or singing a song.

Guisers must stay away from homes where they're not welcome when they celebrate Halloween tonight, say police. And they've created a window sign for those who don't want their peace disturbed by a ...

Halloween isn't. The Irish often get credit—or blame—for the bonfires, pranksters, witches, jack-o'-lanterns and beggars who wander from house to house, threatening tricks and soliciting treats.

Police Scotland issue bizarre Halloween warning for guisers urging them not to ‘scare’ people. The force has been told to 'stick to crime fighting' after issuing the bizarre warning ...

YOU might think it’s a harmless Hallowe’en tradition, but children will find guising a bit harder in some parts of the Lothians this year.

It's spooky for everyone at Halloween, with lots of ghostly goings on at this terrifying time of year. But if hideous masks, haunting outfits and horrifying decorations take you by surprise in ...

The guisers, or gìsears, would carry lit peats to guide them from house to house, where they gave a song or told a fealla-dha (joke) in return for a treat, usually a scone or a bannock.

Halloween begun around the fifth century A.D., ... If the guisers didn't get a welcome reception, mischief might result – a mask gives you a license to act out and misbehave." ...

And the couple are looking forward to welcoming guisers to see their spooky display from 6pm tonight. This is their second year doing a Halloween display, and this year they’ve made it bigger ...

It was good of the storm to wait a day so the guisers could get a good Halloween haul. And fortunate that we’d laid in a heavy supply of fun sized treats, given the number of witches and fairies ...