Punkie Night is observed on October 31, 2024. Punkie Night is an English custom practised on the last Thursday of October, in Somerset in England. Children will march around with a jack o'lantern, singing a song which goes: "It's Punkie Night tonight / It's Punkie Night tonight / Adam and Eve would not believe / It's Punkie Night tonight." There are some variants of this old rhyme which also include these lines: "Give me a candle, give me a light If you don't, you'll get a fright", or alternatively: "Give me a candle give me light If you haven't a candle, a penny's all right". No one knows how the custom originated, although it is almost certainly linked with Hallowe'en. (With material from: Wikipedia)
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