All Hallows Eve (SPD)

All Hallows Eve is a Special Punishment Day created by Toyloli is a day based on the Celtic holiday, as opposed to the Halloween festival as celebrated in America and some parts of Europe.

Traditional Celebration
Halloween (or Hallowe'en) is an annual holiday observed on October 31, which commonly includes activities such as trick-or-treating, attending costume parties, carving jack-o'-lanterns, bonfires, apple bobbing, visiting haunted attractions, playing pranks, telling scary stories, and watching horror films.

Celebrated predominately in America and in some places around Europe the holiday is celebrated at the end of summer on the traditional Autumn Solstice.

Even in the Rejuve Universe the day is not normally treated as a Special day and has been carried onto colony worlds by human settlers. Referenced both in The Misadventures of Samantha and Malcolm and in Melody Stories the day was depicted as a day of fun and one of the few holiday events that were exempt from normal SPD rules. One of the reasons for this in the melody story was the fact that costumes hide hands and status, making punishments really hard to enforce since the child's identity cannot be confirmed.

For those who DO know the local pennies, some parents kept poor tasting candy just for pennies however by and large it is one of the few special punishment days where extra spankings are not delivered.

While the original meaning of trick-or-treat might have generally been forgotten. However before that happen hallloween vandalism by minors was given its own sanctions im the form of public judicial corporal punishment. ''“But Principal Clarke, why would we want to deny that either while Mom might be a little put out by us not staying in bed, but that’s hardly a school matter. All we did was follow the Halloween tradition of pranking a house that was rude to trick-or-treaters; we even used the traditional prank.” “Ah so Miss Lawhead I take it was you who informed your friends of that ancient form of Halloween tradition? Did you also happen to tell rest of the history?” seeing the surprise on Stephanie’s face, “Oh didn’t you know? Well your history speciality was the Atomic Age and the Beginning of the Crazy Age wasn’t it? This part of the story happened during the Restoration at heralded the end of the Crazy Age. “You see such acts are general classified as Vandalism, which Rejuves should know better than to commit those types of crimes. However children you don’t need to worry about a court appearance because there is an obscure section of the law that dates back to the Restoration that specifically deals with Halloween related vandalism. It classifies it when done by minors as Juvenile Mischief do be dealt with a public dose of corporal punishment. For they were sick of children causing harm claiming it was just tradition, but they did not want to spoil the actual Halloween fun for children who have already been successfully take back in hand by the Restoration parenting, so they didn’t outlaw the rest of Halloween making it clear trick-or-treating is not criminal trespass either. “Now of course this Law is pre-Diaspora so predates the Rejuve system of child discipline so doesn’t specify jurisdiction for what type of corporeal punishment, just that it is to be a public spectacle as warning to others. But as memory of that Halloween tradition faded the law was never rescinded, so was still in effect when Shinho adopted the Legal Code. After consulting with the relevant authorities including your parents—yes I talked to all of them pending confirmation of your identities once the sleepover was mentioned not just Herbert's and Lawhead’s—We decided the school jurisdiction was the one that provide the closet to the law’s intent. and Dr. Slonczewski gracious chose not to insist on a full school assembly and will be satisfied that the intent will be fulfilled in fount of the class. Now Todd can I have a private word with you so we can discuss my intent?”'' Pint-Sized Engineer:Hallowed Racket

Religious Holiday
Halloween is not celebrated in all countries and regions of the world, and among those that do the traditions and importance of the celebration vary significantly. In Scotland and Ireland, traditional Halloween customs include children dressing up in costume going "guising", holding parties, while other practices in Ireland include lighting bonfires, and having firework displays.

Celtic NeoPagans consider the season a holy time of year. Celtic Reconstructionists, and others who maintain ancestral customs, make offerings to the gods and the ancestors and in Ireland, Scotland and many Scandinavian countries the day is respected as a Holy Day intended to pay respect the dead.

In the Rejuve Universe Celtic Nationalists like the character Rinnita Wiley and her family mark the 12 hours before midnight on Halloween as a day of respect where people dress in dark clothes and white Bisque masks. On the hour of midnight messages to the world of the dead are burnt as prayer offerings and sent over to their beloved and then, after midnight, followed by loud music, good food and a raucous party.

Penitatas Punishment
In All Hallows Eve the day of Halloween is considered a punishment day for the worst possible. Reserved for murderers and rapists, particularly of children, the day is used for those of Celtic decent, or Neo-Celtic followers as a Day of Atonement. Required to approach the masked adults in the light of the flaming torches and bonfires, the Pennies all dressed in their Devil masks were expected to address the adults by the names of their victims, or the names of people they had hurt in the past and ask for spankings. Working down the list each adult, playing as best as possible the role of the one offended against, would then deliver whatever spanking they believed suitable. While the pennies were allowed to rest and even eat between spankings over the course of the evening they had to go through their list of victims by midnight or risk extra spankings.

At the end of the night the list of victims and prayers are placed in the bonfire along with the prayers of non-pennies.