With Halloween spirit in the air, let’s see how PLAYHOUR's Gulliver Guinea-Pig celebrated it
in the company of some Scottish mice back in 1958. The story seems to suggest that
in those days the English weren’t familiar with Hallowe’en quite as well as the
folks up North, or at least didn’t celebrate it with the same eagerness as the
Scots(mice)...
Some lovely art in these children's comics/papers - strange how much the US influence has in Scotland going " trick or treating " was know as "guising" (still is to a certain extent) ie going out in a disguise etc I shouldn't be so precious really as the Scots (and Irish ) exported Halloween to the US - I think its fair to say the "gusiing" or "trick or treating" was more prominent in Scotland and Ireland (and Wales) than England although the English did this also.
ReplyDeleteShame he ripped up the map!
ReplyDeleteGreat to see these...hope you can show some more gems from Playhour another time...