Mischief night all around the world!

So I was involved in some serious pranks tonight when my brother told me someone was coming to toilet paper my car, it was awesome. It still was not close to prank week this summer that a bunch of our interns had with a bunch of students. It is hard to top 1,000 post it notes successful posted to a small car of a friends! But it was still pretty good! I wanted to find, however what this whole mischief night thing is about. So here is a little history!

Mischief Night, as it is most commonly known in the United States, has been around in its present form for at least 50 years, when it became a day for playing "tricks" while Halloween itself was reserved for the little one to gather "treats." The practice goes back hundreds of years before that, though, to a time when Halloween and misbehavior were inextricably linked. Causing mischief has been a part of the Halloween tradition since the very beginning.

The most ancient roots of Halloween come from the Celts of Great Britain, who believed that the day before their Nov. 1 New Year was a time when spirits came back to haunt and play tricks. On Oct. 31, people dressed up in scary costumes, played games, lit bonfires and left food out on their doorsteps for the ghosts in celebration of this otherworldly event, which the Celts called Samhain...

To stem the vandalism, concerned parents and town leaders tried to ply kids with candy, encouraging the forgotten tradition of trick-or-treating in costume in exchange for sweets, bumping the mischief element from the celebrations of Oct. 31 altogether. It was then that the troublemakers, neighborhood by neighborhood, adopted Oct. 30 as their day to pull pranks.

One thing I also did find was the different names it had in different places...

Michigan
Devil's Night

Yorkshire
Miggy Night
Tick-Tack Night
Corn Night
Trick Night
Micky Night

Liverpool
Mizzy Night

Far Northeast US
Goosey Night
Doorbell Night

Winnipeg, Canada
Gate Night

Quebec, Canada
Mat Night

Parts of Jersey
Cabbage Night

info gathered from wikipedia and livescience.com