Halloween in the USA doesn’t have the same history as Samain in Spain

It is mostly about trick or treating now and the costumes people dress up as.

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Though the roots are in European history, Halloween has been commercialized in the United States.

Some people, don’t even celebrate Halloween.

As a child, I grew up going to church instead of trick-or-treating. I always dressed up as Pocahontas or Meg from Hercules. My parents are religious and believed that Halloween was a celebration of evil, so they did not let me celebrate.

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If I didn’t go to church, we stayed at home and turned our lights off so that our neighbors would know we weren’t offering candy and to not ring our bell.

At church, I often bobbed for apples and ate cotton candy.

I got sweets still, without trick or treating.

What do you want to be for Halloween?

What traditions does your family or culture take part in?