MITAARTUT

Greenland has its own version of Halloween, called Mitaartut, on January 6 at the time of the Epiphany. It is a Greenlandic tradition, not a holiday, but schools close early. Children dressed as ghosts visit houses to sing and dance in front of doorsteps, and receive candy, but also walk around the city gently frightening passers-by. Participants call themselves mitaartoq, literally "people in disguise". People have fun guessing which children are hiding behind each disguise!