Furious Halloween note on Aussie’s front door takes aim at trick-or-treaters over the American tradition… but was it too harsh?

A strongly-worded note left on an Aussie’s front door has sparked furious debate over whether Australia should celebrate Halloween.

In a resurfaced photo that has this week gone viral online, the homeowner told trick-or-treaters to leave his doorbell alone in a fiery note attached to their front door by a peg.

‘This is Australia not America,’ the note begins.

‘F*** off with your Halloween s*** you little c***s.’

People have flocked to the comments, divided over the explicit warning.

‘Sounds more like Aussies are miserable and don’t like kids. Either way, thank God I don’t live there,’ one person commented.

‘Time to send eggs and toilet paper to Australia from America with love,’ another wrote.

‘All the tricks and no treats down under,’ added another. 

Australian homes have been increasingly decorated with Halloween-related adornments over the years

On another repost on a British page one man remarked: ‘Halloween in 24/7 for the Aussies, with all of the spiders crawling around there’.

But one Aussie was a fan of the holiday.

‘Aussie here and I love Halloween. It’s getting more popular but some people just live in delulu land,’ she said.

One Aussie told the foreigners the holiday isn’t really loathed in the country.

‘Australians don’t hate Halloween. It’s just that it’s been Americanised throughout the years on our televisions, not as an Irish or English or pagan thing.

‘And like anything Americanised in Australia it’s been so prevalent it feels like it’s been shoved down our throats, hence this reaction. It’s not an Australian tradition nor was it part of Australian culture,’ they argued. 

Homeowners string up cobwebs and spiders, add gravestones to their lawns, and even put skeletons in their windows to mark the occasion

The US is known for going all out for the holiday, though Australia has been steadily catching onto Halloween, with costumes and treats dominating shopping centres this October.

Homes across the country have also decked out for the holiday, hanging fake spiders and proudly displaying pumpkins for all to see.

However, peeling aside the costumes and treats, the holiday can be traced back to the Celtic farming festival in Ireland called Samhain, where it was believed spirits could come back from the dead.

As a result, people dressed up in disguise to ward off ghosts.