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Mischief Night
Mischief Night is an informal holiday on which children and teens engage in pranks and minor vandalism. It is most commonly held on November 4th, just before Guy Fawkes Night.〔http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/49-arrested-merseyside-police-mischief-3364053〕
==Historical background==
The earliest reference to Mischief Night is from 1790 when a headmaster encouraged a school play which ended in "an Ode to Fun which praises children's tricks on Mischief Night in most approving terms". In the United Kingdom, these pranks were originally carried out as part of May Day celebrations, but shifted to November 4, the night before Guy Fawkes Night. According to one historian, "May Day and the Green Man had little resonance for children in grimy cities. They looked at the opposite end of the year and found the ideal time, the night before the gunpowder plot."〔 However, the shift only happened in the late nineteenth century and is described by the Opies as "one of the mysteries of the folklore calendar". In Germany, Mischief Night is still celebrated on May 1.
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