All about trick or treating

that time of year when underaged kids get into costume and traipse around the neighborhood ringing doorbells and begging for treats. When you think about it, trick-or-treating is kind of a weird thing. Where did it come from anyway?
Today I found out that the practice began with the Celtic tradition of celebrating the end of the year by dressing up as evil spirits.
The Celts believed that, as we moved from one year to the next, the dead and the living would overlap, and demons would roam the earth again. So dressing up as demons was a defense mechanism. If you encountered a real demon roaming the Earth, they would think you were one of them.
Fast forward to when the Catholic Church was stealing everybody’s holidays and trying to convert them. They turned the demon dress-up party into “All Hallows Eve,” “All Soul’s Day,” and “All Saints Day” and had people dress up as saints, angels and still a few demons. You might think that this practice then simply migrated along with Europeans to the United States. But trick-or-treating didn’t re-emerge until the 1920s and 1930s.
It paused for a bit during World War II because of sugar rations but is now back in full force.

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