A Guide For Ghouls And Goblins When Trick Or Treating

Every Halloween, it is not unusual to hear a knock at your door and encounter goblins and ghouls demanding "Trick or Treat". A Trick Or Treat outing consists of donning a costume, going door to door on foot begging for treats, and pranking the person or persons who do not supply the trick or treater with a treat.

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A Trick or Treat costume can be home made, and fashioned from anything you would like. You could use some baggy clothes to look like a beggar or add clown make-up to be a clown. You could make a trick or treat costume that looks like a ghost from an old white sheet or even a plastic table cloth that you cut holes in for the eyes. Trick or Treat costumes can also be purchased at many stores. You can find Trick or Treat costumes that look like Cinderella, children's super-heroes, space creatures, witches, cavemen, pirates and more.

Trick or treating seems to have originated in America, though European countries had similar practices in the middle ages, this is between 500 A.D. and 1600 A.D. In Ireland and Britain people would go souling on Hallowmas. Souling is when poor people go begging for food from door to door in exchange for prayers for the dead on All Soul's Day. Hallowmas is on November 1st, and All Soul's Day is on November 2nd.

The Halloween that would become custom began in North America in 1911. Children visited shops and neighbors for rewards of nuts and candies in trade for their rhymes and songs on Halloween in the early evening between six and seven p.m.

Halloween was not a widespread practice until the 1930's. It started heavily in the western United States and worked its way eastward. During sugar rationing between April 1942 and June 1947, the trick or treat holiday called Halloween took a time out, since there was no candy available for treats.

Trick or Treat fun over the years could include pranks such as strewing toilet paper across tree branches, painting graffiti on items with aerosol shaving cream, toy tricks that pop up when the tricker shakes hands with the treater, such as buzzers or springs. The pranks or tricks were relatively harmless, yet in many countries abroad, all Halloween activities are strictly banned. Fun for Halloween also includes haunted houses, parties with games and refreshments that sport trick or treat costumes and either an autumn or haunted theme.

Candy treats for trick or treaters include, candy bars, miniature candies, suckers, chewing gum, tiny boxes of raisins, popcorn balls, cookies and fruits.

Still more countries than the United States have not yet given up the trick or treat tradition. Swedish children still dress up as witches and trick or treat on Maundy Thursday, which is the Thursday before Easter. Also, Danish children dress up and trick or treat on Shrove Monday.