My country is steeped in fairy faith. Many of our traditions and rituals in Scotland come from our ancestor’s desire to appease the ‘guid folk’ who could be fickle in their affections and downright dangerous if provoked. As children, on the 31st of October we’d go “guising”, which is the practise of dressing up in scary costumes and visiting neighbours to sing songs or tell jokes in exchange for sweeties.

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