Their traditions and ours: Mischief Night
4th & 5thNovember in some parts of the UK are Mischief Nights.
The date as with many things traditional can vary and appears to sometimes be marked on Halloween or Guy Fawkes Night. It is however certainly connected with the season of Misrule that starts on All Saints Day 1st November.
Ronald Hutton in Stations of the Sun argues that Mischief Night primarily represented a rebellion of youth against an ordered and conservative adult world. According to Hutton it involves mainly what might be termed pranks, knocking on doors and running away, tapping on windows and potentially pulling apart bonfires ready for the 5th November.
As a tradition it might be noted that it’s not in any way commercialised
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