It gets worse, you know how in Halloween you’re supposed to trick the people or w/e if they don’t give you candy?
The traditional way of going about it on both days actually should include throwing grains/rice/peas on your floor during a spell, or spraying you with ‘blessed water’.
That, or they can just learn some poems by heart (or do all of them), which you need to check for mistakes.
Jeez, we just have smalltime pranks here if the kids don’t get goodies (candy, baked goods or money most commonly) but that’s more due to the rhyme nobody really does pranks.
Estonia wildin’ with this stuff
I like the first one of these, he’s a pretty kitty!
Oh no, I meant that, to receive candy etcetera, you’re meant to do all of that. If you don’t get candy in return, you just curse the family instead (and play some pranks or w/e).
To the extent that lots of people all over the political spectrum still use ‘lizard people’ as a joke despite it being one of the foundational antisemitic conspiracies