HALLOWEEN used to slip by as just a date on the calendar.
Now it has become another money-spinning party farce.
It has grown from a few children picking up the American trick or treating habit, to a full fancy dress festival with magazines and newspapers full of appropriate fashion and shops full of pumpkins and witchy-type tat.
Every year the Journal receives letters from concerned readers urging parents to know just where their children are on the night which "draws attention to the devil, demons, witchcraft and the powers of darkness and can cause untold damage to those who become involved in its practice".
My main concern is not so much this, but for the poor elderly people who dread the day of being pestered in their own homes and being threatened with tricks if they don't pay up. Not a welcome practice.
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