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'''Mischief night''' is a tradition in some parts of the world; a night when people do mischief to their neighbours. This is usually 30 October, the day before [[Halloween]].
==Traditional practice==
Traditional mischiefs:
<!------These are traditional pranks — not what happens today. Please do not add unreferenced material or it wiil be removed. -------->
*Knocking and tapping on doors and windows
*Throwing paint
*Putting [[treacle]] on door handles
*Tying door handles together to stop them opening
*Moving gates
==Current Day Practice==
Sometimes combined with Trick or Treat.
In [[Detroit, Michigan|Detroit]] and other parts of [[Michigan]], October 30 is called Devil's Night and includes [[vandalism]] and [[arson]].<ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE4DC173DF930A35752C1A967958260 'Devil's Night' Fires Decline By More Than Half in Detroit] Retrieved on 30 October 2008</ref><ref name=DEVIL>[http://www.livescience.com/history/081029-devils-night.html Live Science: October 29, 2008-Devil's Night: The History of Pre-Halloween Pranks by Heather Whipps]</ref>
In northern New Jersey and the Philadelphia region, October 30 is referred to as "Mischief Night," where mischievous teens soap car windows, egg houses, adorn trees with toilet paper, and run away after ringing doorbells. In other parts of [[New Jersey]], October 30 is also known as "Cabbage Night" or "Goosey Night." <ref>[https://www.highbeam.com/reg/reg1.aspx?origurl=http%3a%2f%2fwww.highbeam.com%2fdoc%2f1P1-22559518.html&docid=1P1%3a22559518 Cracking Down on Cabbage Night]</ref><ref>[http://www.ahherald.com/barbieri/2003/ls031030_mischief.htm You say, "Goosey night" and I say "Mischief night"] Retrieved on 30th October</ref> In Camden, New Jersey. Over 130 arsons were committed in that city on the night of October 30, 1991.<ref>[http://cms.firehouse.com/web/online/Photo-Stories/Fire-and-Police-Departments-Extinguish-Pre-Halloween-Arson-Sprees/45$45445 Firehouse.com News: Fire and Police Departments Extinguish Pre-Halloween Arson Sprees] Retrieved on 30 October 2008</ref>
It is known as "Gate Night" in Trail, British Columbia, [[Winnipeg]], [[Canada]] and as Mat Night in [[Quebec]], [[Canada]], always on the 30 October, the eve of [[Halloween]].<ref name="DEVIL"/> It is also commonly known as "Devil's Night" in many places throughout [[Canada]].
In [[Yorkshire]], it is also known as "mischievous night", "Miggy Night",<ref name=DEVIL/> "Tick-Tack Night", "Corn Night", "Trick Night" and "Micky Night". In [[Liverpool]], it is known as "Mizzy Night"(but unlike in Yorkshire, it is celebrated on October 30th).{{Fact|date=October 2008}} It was celebrated on Nov 4 in Merseyside during the 1970s, as well as in Manchester after the war.{{Fact|date=November 2008}}
Mischief night is becoming popular in [[Ireland]], where teenagers get the week around Halloween off school. This means that many of the nights before 31 October are used by teenagers for [[vandalism]].{{Fact|date=October 2008}}
Modern mischief includes toilet papering gardens and buildings, flouring and egging of cars, people, and homes, "forking" gardens, setting off [[fireworks]] and smashing [[pumpkins]] and [[jack-o'-lantern]]s.<ref name=DEVIL /> Local shops do not sell eggs to [[chav]]s around the time of Halloween. Sometimes the damage includes [[Graffiti|spray-painting]] of buildings and homes.<ref>[http://blog.mlive.com/citpat/2007/10/halloween_blowups_vandalized_i.html Jackson Citizen Patriot: October 21, 2007-Halloween blow-ups vandalized in Springport by Jake May]</ref>
People play "Ding-Dong Ditch": in this 'game', people knock on doors and then run and hide.<ref>[http://www.randomhouse.ca/readmag/volume6issue1/excerpts/BookOfLists.html "11 Favourite Regionalisms Within Canada" © 2005 Katherine Barber from The Book of Lists by David Wallechinsky, Amy Wallace, Ira Basen and Jane Farrow: Knopf Canada-Paperback, 528 pages November 2005, 0-676-97720-0]</ref>
==Media==
A 2006 film Mischief Night is based on a night in [[Leeds]], [[United Kingdom|UK]].<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2006/sep/17/features.review1 Mischief Night film review] Retrieved on 31 October 2008</ref><ref>[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0481581/ imdb ref] Retrieved on 31 October 2008</ref>
==Notes==
{{reflist}}
==References==
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/northyorkshire/content/articles/2005/10/17/mischief_night_feature.shtml Confessions from a Mischief Night brat] BBC Yorkshire report — November 2006
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/6101232.stm Police Patrol for Mischief Night] BBC Merseyside report — November 2006
* [http://cfprod01.imt.uwm.edu/Dept/FLL/linguistics/dialect/staticmaps/q_110.html Dialect Survey Results] US terms;prevalence and distribution
{{U.S. Holidays}}
[[Category:British culture]]
[[Category:Crime]]
[[Category:Holidays]]
==Traditional practice==
Traditional mischiefs:
<!------These are traditional pranks — not what happens today. Please do not add unreferenced material or it wiil be removed. -------->
*Knocking and tapping on doors and windows
*Throwing paint
*Putting [[treacle]] on door handles
*Tying door handles together to stop them opening
*Moving gates
==Current Day Practice==
Sometimes combined with Trick or Treat.
In [[Detroit, Michigan|Detroit]] and other parts of [[Michigan]], October 30 is called Devil's Night and includes [[vandalism]] and [[arson]].<ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE4DC173DF930A35752C1A967958260 'Devil's Night' Fires Decline By More Than Half in Detroit] Retrieved on 30 October 2008</ref><ref name=DEVIL>[http://www.livescience.com/history/081029-devils-night.html Live Science: October 29, 2008-Devil's Night: The History of Pre-Halloween Pranks by Heather Whipps]</ref>
In northern New Jersey and the Philadelphia region, October 30 is referred to as "Mischief Night," where mischievous teens soap car windows, egg houses, adorn trees with toilet paper, and run away after ringing doorbells. In other parts of [[New Jersey]], October 30 is also known as "Cabbage Night" or "Goosey Night." <ref>[https://www.highbeam.com/reg/reg1.aspx?origurl=http%3a%2f%2fwww.highbeam.com%2fdoc%2f1P1-22559518.html&docid=1P1%3a22559518 Cracking Down on Cabbage Night]</ref><ref>[http://www.ahherald.com/barbieri/2003/ls031030_mischief.htm You say, "Goosey night" and I say "Mischief night"] Retrieved on 30th October</ref> In Camden, New Jersey. Over 130 arsons were committed in that city on the night of October 30, 1991.<ref>[http://cms.firehouse.com/web/online/Photo-Stories/Fire-and-Police-Departments-Extinguish-Pre-Halloween-Arson-Sprees/45$45445 Firehouse.com News: Fire and Police Departments Extinguish Pre-Halloween Arson Sprees] Retrieved on 30 October 2008</ref>
It is known as "Gate Night" in Trail, British Columbia, [[Winnipeg]], [[Canada]] and as Mat Night in [[Quebec]], [[Canada]], always on the 30 October, the eve of [[Halloween]].<ref name="DEVIL"/> It is also commonly known as "Devil's Night" in many places throughout [[Canada]].
In [[Yorkshire]], it is also known as "mischievous night", "Miggy Night",<ref name=DEVIL/> "Tick-Tack Night", "Corn Night", "Trick Night" and "Micky Night". In [[Liverpool]], it is known as "Mizzy Night"(but unlike in Yorkshire, it is celebrated on October 30th).{{Fact|date=October 2008}} It was celebrated on Nov 4 in Merseyside during the 1970s, as well as in Manchester after the war.{{Fact|date=November 2008}}
Mischief night is becoming popular in [[Ireland]], where teenagers get the week around Halloween off school. This means that many of the nights before 31 October are used by teenagers for [[vandalism]].{{Fact|date=October 2008}}
Modern mischief includes toilet papering gardens and buildings, flouring and egging of cars, people, and homes, "forking" gardens, setting off [[fireworks]] and smashing [[pumpkins]] and [[jack-o'-lantern]]s.<ref name=DEVIL /> Local shops do not sell eggs to [[chav]]s around the time of Halloween. Sometimes the damage includes [[Graffiti|spray-painting]] of buildings and homes.<ref>[http://blog.mlive.com/citpat/2007/10/halloween_blowups_vandalized_i.html Jackson Citizen Patriot: October 21, 2007-Halloween blow-ups vandalized in Springport by Jake May]</ref>
People play "Ding-Dong Ditch": in this 'game', people knock on doors and then run and hide.<ref>[http://www.randomhouse.ca/readmag/volume6issue1/excerpts/BookOfLists.html "11 Favourite Regionalisms Within Canada" © 2005 Katherine Barber from The Book of Lists by David Wallechinsky, Amy Wallace, Ira Basen and Jane Farrow: Knopf Canada-Paperback, 528 pages November 2005, 0-676-97720-0]</ref>
==Media==
A 2006 film Mischief Night is based on a night in [[Leeds]], [[United Kingdom|UK]].<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2006/sep/17/features.review1 Mischief Night film review] Retrieved on 31 October 2008</ref><ref>[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0481581/ imdb ref] Retrieved on 31 October 2008</ref>
==Notes==
{{reflist}}
==References==
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/northyorkshire/content/articles/2005/10/17/mischief_night_feature.shtml Confessions from a Mischief Night brat] BBC Yorkshire report — November 2006
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/6101232.stm Police Patrol for Mischief Night] BBC Merseyside report — November 2006
* [http://cfprod01.imt.uwm.edu/Dept/FLL/linguistics/dialect/staticmaps/q_110.html Dialect Survey Results] US terms;prevalence and distribution
{{U.S. Holidays}}
[[Category:British culture]]
[[Category:Crime]]
[[Category:Holidays]]