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===Guising===
{{Redirect|Guising}}[[File:Halloween Shop, Derry, September 2010 (02).JPG|thumb|upright|left|Halloween shop in [[Derry]], Northern Ireland. Halloween masks are called ‘false faces’ in Ireland and Scotland.]]
In Scotland and Ireland, "guising"&nbsp;– children going from door to door in disguise&nbsp;– is secular, and a gift in the form of food, coins or "apples or nuts for the Halloween party" (and in more recent times, chocolate) is given out to the children.<ref name="Irish Times"/><ref name="bannatyne">Bannatyne, Lesley Pratt (1998) [https://books.google.com/books?id=rNAXt9jLXWwC&dq=guising+SAMHAIN&pg=PA44 Forerunners to Halloween] Pelican Publishing Company. {{ISBN|1-56554-346-7}} p. 44</ref><ref>Rogers, Nicholas. (2002) "Festive Rights:Halloween in the British Isles". Halloween: From Pagan Ritual to Party Night. p. 48. Oxford University Press. {{ISBN|0-19-514691-3}}</ref> The tradition is called "guising" because of the disguises or costumes worn by the children.<ref name="guising definition"/><ref>{{cite journal|author=Sarah Carpenter|date=December 2001|title=Scottish Guising: Medieval And Modern Theatre Games|url=http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/ScotLit/ASLS/ijost/Volume2_no2/1_carpenter_s.htm|url-status=dead|journal=International Journal of Scottish Theatre|volume=2|issue=2|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090924015205/http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/ScotLit/ASLS/ijost/Volume2_no2/1_carpenter_s.htm|archive-date=2009-09-24|access-date=2008-10-06}}</ref> In the West Mid Scots dialect, guising is known as "galoshans".<ref>Galoshans at Hallowe'en / News / Talk of the Towns. ''Greenock Telegraph''. 27 Oct 2009. Retrieved 31 October 2011</ref> In Scotland, youths went house to house in white with masked, painted or blackened faces, reciting rhymes and often threatening to do mischief if they were not welcomed.<ref name="Campbell">Campbell, Oliver Frances (1900, 1902, 2005) ''The Gaelic Otherworld''. Edited by Ronald Black. Birlinn Ltd. {{ISBN|1-84158-207-7}} pp. 559–562</ref><ref name=ArnoldB>{{cite web |url=https://pantherfile.uwm.edu/barnold/www/lectures/holloween.html |title=Halloween Customs in the Celtic World |access-date=2007-10-16 |last=Arnold |first=Bettina |date=2001-10-31 |publisher=University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110624080404/https://pantherfile.uwm.edu/barnold/www/lectures/holloween.html |archive-date=2011-06-24 }}</ref>

Guising has been recorded in Scotland since the 16th century, often at New Year. The [[Session (Presbyterianism)|Kirk Session]] records of [[Elgin, Moray|Elgin]] name men and women who danced at New Year 1623. Six men, described as [[Mummers' play|guisers or "gwysseris"]] performed a [[sword dance]] wearing [[visard|masks and visors]] covering their faces in the churchyard and in the courtyard of a house. They were each fined 40 shillings.<ref>William Cramond, [https://archive.org/details/recordsofelgin02elgi/page/176/mode/2up ''The records of Elgin'', 2 (Aberdeen, 1903), pp. 176-7]</ref>

A record of guising at Halloween in Scotland in 1895 describes masqueraders in disguise carrying lanterns made out of scooped out turnips, visit homes to be rewarded with cakes, fruit, and money.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x7_QAAAAMAAJ&q=Frank%20Leslie's%20popular%20monthly%201895%20Halloween&pg=PA540 |title=Frank Leslie's popular monthly, Volume 4|pages=540–543 |access-date=2012-10-10|last1=Leslie |first1=Frank |date=November 1895 }}</ref> In Ireland, children in costumes would commonly say "[[wikt:help the Halloween party|Help the Halloween Party]]" at the doors of homeowners.<ref name="Irish Times">{{cite news |title=Ten trick-or-treating facts for impressive bonfire chats |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/ten-trick-or-treating-facts-for-impressive-bonfire-chats-1.1983165 |date=31 October 2014 |newspaper=[[The Irish Times]]|quote=Scotland and Ireland started tricking: A few decades later a practice called ‘guising’ was in full swing in Scotland and Ireland. Short for ‘disguising’, children would go out from door to door dressed in costume and rather than pledging to pray, they would tell a joke, sing a song or perform another sort of “trick” in exchange for food or money. The expression trick or treat has only been used at front doors for the last 10 to 15 years. Before that "Help the Halloween Party" seems to have been the most popular phrase to holler.}}</ref><ref name="Journal.ie">{{cite news |title=11 struggles every Irish trick or treater remembers |url=https://www.dailyedge.ie/trick-or-treating-2403708-Oct2015/ |access-date=28 October 2020 |website=[[TheJournal.ie]]}}</ref> 

Halloween masks are referred to as "false faces" in Ireland and Scotland.<ref name="False face">{{cite news |title=Top ten Irish Halloween traditions and memories you may share|url=https://www.irishcentral.com/culture/craic/top-irish-halloween-memories-traditions |access-date=23 October 2018 |agency=Ireland Central}}</ref><ref name=DSL/> A writer using Scots language recorded guisers in Ayr, Scotland in 1890: {{quote|I had mind it was Halloween . . . the wee callans (boys) were at it already, rinning aboot wi’ their fause-faces (false faces) on and their bits o’ turnip lanthrons (lanterns) in their haun (hand).<ref name=DSL>{{cite web|url=http://www.dsl.ac.uk/getent4.php?plen=1266&startset=21732206&query=Hallow_evin&fhit=hallow&dregion=form&dtext=dost#fhit |title=DOST: Hallow Evin |publisher=Dsl.ac.uk |access-date=13 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140429162756/http://www.dsl.ac.uk/getent4.php?plen=12718&startset=16840203&query=HALLOW&fhit=hallow&dregion=form&dtext=snd|archive-date=29 April 2014}}</ref> }} Guising also involved going to wealthy homes, and in the 1920s, boys went guising at Halloween up to the affluent Thorntonhall, [[South Lanarkshire]].<ref>John A. Walker (2002) [https://books.google.com/books?id=mSslH9mwx_8C&dq=guising+halloween&pg=PA14 Sergeant Jiggy] p. 14. Cosmos Original Productions, 2002</ref> An account of guising in the 1950s in Ardrossan, [[North Ayrshire]], records a child receiving 12 shillings and sixpence, having knocked on doors throughout the neighbourhood and performed.<ref name=gui>Stuart Christie (2002) [https://books.google.com/books?id=4_hsVYv0R5YC&dq=guising+halloween&pg=PA65 The cultural and political formation of a west of Scotland "baby-boomer", Volume 1] pp. 65–66. Retrieved 2010-11-11</ref>  Growing up in [[Derry]], Northern Ireland in the 1960s, ''[[The Guardian]]'' journalist Michael Bradley recalls children asking, “Any nuts or apples?”.<ref>{{cite news |first=Michael|last=Bradley|title=A very Derry Halloween: a carnival of frights, fireworks and parade |url=https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2018/oct/24/derry-halloween-europe-largest-carnival-of-frights-fireworks-parades |access-date=25 October 2018 |date=24 October 2018|newspaper=The Guardian}}</ref> In Scotland and Ireland, the children are only supposed to receive treats if they perform a party trick for the households they go to. This normally takes the form of singing a song or reciting a joke or a funny poem which the child has memorised before setting out.<ref name="bannatyne"/><ref name=gui/> While going from door to door in disguise has remained popular among Scots and Irish at Halloween, the North American saying "trick-or-treat" has become common in the 2000s.<ref name="Irish Times"/><ref name="Journal.ie"/>