Crazy Stuff That Matters!: Halloween <a href='http://guidepedia.info/' style='display:none' title='GuidePedia Free Premium Blogger Templates'>GuidePedia</a>

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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There’s no feeling quite like waiting for a stranger to open his or her door so you can scream the words “Trick or treat!” But why do we say it? What does it actually mean? The practice of donning a costume and asking for treats from your neighbors dates back to the Middle Ages, but back then it wasn’t a game.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">During the medieval practice of <i>souling</i>, poor people would make the rounds begging for food. In return, they offered prayers for the dead on All Souls Day. (What does the “een” in "halloween” mean exactly? The answer lies here.)</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Modern trick or treating is a custom borrowed from guising, which children still do in some parts of Scotland. <i>Guising</i> involves dressing in costume and singing a rhyme, doing a card trick, or telling a story in exchange for a sweet. The Scottish and Irish brought the custom to America in the 19th century.</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Some have traced the earliest reference of the term <i>treat or treat</i> in print was in 1927, in Alberta, Canada. It appears as if the practice didn’t really take hold in the U.S. until the mid-1930s, where it was not always well received. The demanding of a treat angered or puzzled some adults. Supposedly, in a Halloween parade in 1948 in New York, the Madison Square Boys Club carried a banner sporting the message “American Boys Don’t Beg.” By 1952, the practice was widely accepted enough to be mentioned in the family television show Ozzie and Harriet.</span></div>
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