Halloween has been celebrated in Scotland since ancient times - it’s a descendant of the Gaelic festival of Samhain that marked the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter.
During the Samhain celebration, the Celts would light great bonfires and pound on drums to guide visitors from the underworld, while wearing costumes to ward off malevolent spirits.
It’s a tradition that’s now been brought back by the annual Samhuinn Fire Festival on Edinburgh’s Calton Hill.
Back in the 1950s and 1960s in Scotland things looked a little different - there weren’t any pumpkins so children risked their fingers by carving out the tough flesh of turnips to fashion Halloween lanterns.
And there was no ‘trick or treating’, with youngsters heading out in fancy dress to guise - hoping to earn a few shillings by performing on neighbour’s doorsteps.
Here are 20 pictures to take you back to those days.
5. On parade
The Women's Guild at the Gilmerton Dykes Association preparing for their fancy dress parade in 1962. | National World
6. I put a spell on you
A couple of witches casting a spell at the Old St Pauls Brownies Halloween party in Church Hall, Jeffrey Street, Edinburgh, in 1961. | National World
7. Paying a visit
Halloween guisers visit a night watchman in Edinburgh's Grassmarket in 1957. | National World
8. Skating along
Skating with turnip lanterns at Murrayfield Ice Rink in 1958. | National World