Americans have a strange festival called Halloween, which is celebrated on 31st October every year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween
A couple of years back I was in Fremont, California.
On 31st October I went for a walk in the evening, and saw houses with ghosts, vampires, skeletons, witches, spidernets, pumpkins with lights inside, and other kinds of weird, spooky, eerie, bizarre and wacky things.
https://indicanews.com/halloween-as-seen-by-an-indian
Children come to your house on Halloween day and say “ trick or treat “, which means you have to give them some sweets, candy, cake etc, or they will play some nasty trick on you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trick-or-treating
It is a system of extortion, and no wonder the Mafia has sprouted in America. Halloween is excellent childhood training !
This year Halloween in America and Diwali in India fell on the same day i.e. 31st October.
I was in India this 31st October, so I did not get a dose of Halloween, but I got a dose of Diwali. The whole night there were exploding crackers ( despite a Supreme Court order against bursting crackers ) and I could hardly get any sleep. I would prefer Halloween over Diwali, because at least it does not disturb one’s sleep !
