Halloween: Trick or Treat!
October 31st
Children & adults
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Original meaning: All Hallows Eve, or All Saints’
Day
History: 5th century B.C., Celtic Ireland
*9the century, Europe
trick or treat
soul cakes
Sentences
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3 If they are children, they go door to door in their
neighborhood sing “Trick or Treat” in order to gather candy,
and if they are adults they go parties with their families and
friends where they bob for apples and visit a “haunted house.”
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14 But like other major western religious holidays—Christmas
and Easter, for example--this holiday has pagan roots.
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17 It was believed that on this day, disembodied spirits of
those who had died the previous year were able to enter the
land of the living and would search for people to possess, so
they could continue their existence for the following year.
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21 The people would protect themselves by dressing up in
ghoulish and scary costumes and acting as scary as they could
in order to scare away any spirits that would want to possess
them, thus giving birth to the scary element that is inherent in
Halloween.
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30 On All Soul’s Day, Christians would walk from village to
village begging for “soul cakes”--small pieces of bread with
fruits baked into them.