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.
14. Heating up
Young Edinburgh guisers warm their hands over their turnip lanterns at Halloween 1956. | National World
15. Exterminate!
Michael Haughian dressed up in cardboard boxes as a Dalek to go guising in 1965. | National World
16. Making a splash
Tweedie Memorial Boys Club dookin for apples at their Halloween party at the West Port in 1956. | Johnston Press Resell