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Halloween traditions: everything you wanted to know

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Is the World Getting Less Spooky?

There's long been this idea that people want to be scared and there's a thrill in it. You wouldn't want to see, you know, mischief night in greasing railway tracks or pushing over mobile toilets really brought back. There are more simple things that used to be done when I was a kid which are probably which are still done now. It's tied in with the apple harvest and picking the apples at this time of year and a side of making and carving turnips. Everyone should learn that how the car will turn it. Pumpkins are too easy.

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