Monster costumes and pumpkins lit with candles are popular again on Monday: In many places in Thuringia, leisure facilities attract small and large horror fans to Halloween parties. You can carve pumpkins or marvel at video projections in Erfurt Zoo and Gotha Zoo, among other places. The Oberhof Rennsteiggarten invites you to go on a scary hike, and Erfurt-Weimar Airport to go on scary tours. In various places, children are out and about in Halloween parades or ringing doorbells shouting "trick or treating" to ask for candy.

The Halloween festival originally came from Ireland. On the eve of All Saints' Day, the "All hallows eve", the predominantly Catholic Irish lit a candle. In Thuringia, October 31 is actually Reformation Day. However, the custom of celebrating Halloween and putting hollowed-out and candle-lit pumpkins in the window is becoming more and more widespread.