'In America you say trick or treat and they have to give you treats or you tie up their gate or whatever'. Though a friend of my brothers was talking about it.
Only one fella (a quite posh English fella) ever gave us food once - and we never said - trick or treat.
We went out round the neighbourhood with our carved turnip lanterns, to show the neighbours our creative efforts (we were quite competitive in doing stylish carving), sang them the local version of the hop-tu-naa song, and they gave us money - small change. As a kid in the Isle of Man in the 1970s we went out at Hop-tu-Naa door to door, but it wasn't trick-or-treating. Nice to see our traditions on the global online! I found much of my information in Margaret Killip's The Folklore of the Isle of Man and the following websites: Therefore, it seems very likely to me that trick-or-treating on the Isle of Man (although they may not have called it by that name) as reported in Margaret Killip's book, is more likely to be directly related to ancient Celtic customs of the region, and not an American import, whereas other parts of Britain have been re-introduced to the custom by way of America. Secondly, new customs from foreign lands catch on much later in rural and isolated communities than they do in metropolitan areas, especially in the days before the internet and cable television brought world cultures in such immediate contact with each other. Firstly, ancient customs continue on much longer in rural, isolated communities such as the Isle of Man. I think it is important to point out two things here. Killip in her book, published in 1975! Halloween was also referred to as Hollantide Eve on the Isle of Man, and Killip explains that the children went door to door carrying their carved turnip lanterns singing the Oie Houney song about Jinny the Witch. How curious, then, that trick-or-treating among Manx children is described by Ms.
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