TRICK, or treat? Halloween might be more well-known in America, but there are plenty of families in the Hawkesbury celebrating the pagan tradition.
With a little over a week to go until Halloween on Wednesday, October 31, some people have already decorated their houses in welcome of the local kids (and adults) who will come to their doors in search of sweet treats.
Jodette Alyce from South Windsor decorates the front of her house (pictured above) weeks out from Halloween.
”It's my favourite holiday,” she said.
Glossodia resident Roz White and her family are already planning their Halloween decorations.
“Our house will be boarded up, a gothic fence put up, grave stones, skinned skeletons of humans and animals and zombies... and much more,” she said.
Julie Herps from Freemans Reach said her entire street gets into Halloween. In fact, when she and her family bought the block and built on it four years ago, the estate agent warned her about the tradition.
“The first thing was ‘I hope you celebrate Halloween because the whole street does – it’s been going on for many, many, years’!” Ms Herps said.
“We actually got our house keys a couple days before Halloween and were showing our friends the new house the day of Halloween, and at around 4pm or 5pm the street became alive with heaps of kids – and adults too – trick or treating.
“We didn’t used to celebrate Halloween, but we do now!”
Ms Herps’ six-year-old daughter will be dressing up as a vampire this year, and they will be decorating the front of their house in anticipation of trick or treaters.
“We’re hoping to get some fake spider webs and handing skeletons,” she said.
