YOU might think it’s a harmless Hallowe’en tradition, but children will find guising a bit harder in some parts of the Lothians this year. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The ...

Guisers ditched the prayers in favor of non ... The act of going door-to-door for handouts has long been part of Halloween. But until the middle of the 20th century, the treats kids received ...

Halloween isn’t. The Irish often get credit ... groups brought their holidays to the U.S. In medieval Scotland, “guisers” were people who dressed in disguise and begged for “soul ...

If the guisers didn't get a welcome reception, mischief might result – a mask gives you a license to act out and misbehave." Lesley Bannatyne, another author who writes extensively on Halloween ...

seasonal folk plays performed by actors known as mummers of guisers (performers in disguise). No matter what culture it originates from, even modern day celebrations of Halloween reflects its ...

As well as the traditional Count Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster and Freddy Krueger, Halloween guisers are increasingly turning to real-life ‘ghouls’ in a bid to terrify their neighbourhoods.

SMOKING cauldrons, scary skeletons and a ghoulish graveyard greeted guisers at a frightful block of flats in Calderwood where neighbours get into the spirit of Hallowe'en with a haunting display ...

The fun police are out in force this Halloween after Police Scotland issued the guidelinesCredit: Getty But the fun police are out in force as guisers prepare their frightful fancy dress in an ...

For example, sometimes they were used by Halloween ‘guisers’ (disguising yourself with a mask) to frighten people, and sometimes they were set on windowsills to keep harmful spirits out of the ...