Pumpkins out: Neeps in - it’s a Very Scottish Halloween

Pumpkins have been banned from a Halloween festival at Scone Palace, as organisers shun ‘American big business and rampant consumerism’.

The Very Scottish Halloween event this weekend (27-28 October) will instead involve a neepie lantern competition, made with traditional Scottish turnips.

The festival will include dooking for apples, as well as a screening of A Tale O’ Twa Stanes - a short film about a Templar Knight who guarded the Stone of Destiny for more than 700 years.

Jock Ferguson of Herald Events sent the anti-commercialism message home: ‘We will be having none of that pumpkin or trick-or-treat rubbish.

‘Pumpkins are banned and will not be allowed beyond the front gates.’

More: Halloween, Neeps, Pumpkins, Scone Palace, Turnips, Latest News (News), Days Out

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