Yeah in the states I seem to remember stories being orientated around Halloween turning* into to much destruction and a woman in Kansas (Elizabeth Krebs) in the early 1900s started throwing large Halloween parties and inviting all the kids so they’d all get together party late into the night and people wouldn’t have the time or energy to go around destroying shit.
Wow, I had no idea! Just looked it up (assuming you’re in New Zealand) and read about this.
no it happened in multiple countries in the 90s, it was very much a us-centric thing before that
edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Halloween most of europe actually
Yeah in the states I seem to remember stories being orientated around Halloween turning* into to much destruction and a woman in Kansas (Elizabeth Krebs) in the early 1900s started throwing large Halloween parties and inviting all the kids so they’d all get together party late into the night and people wouldn’t have the time or energy to go around destroying shit.
here it’s because of the extreme commercial nature of halloween infringing of the older tradition of caring for your loved ones’ graves.
I was in The Netherlands on Halloween a few years ago and nobody really knew what the hell we were talking about.