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Halloween is a wonderful celebration of parties, costumes and candy that comes once each year on October 31^st. But how did this strange custom ordinate

Trick or treating origin:

• An old Irish practice called for going door too door to collect money, bread cake, cheese, eggs, apples, and such in preparation for the festival.

• Another was the asking for soul cakes, or offerings, in exchange for promises of prosperity of protection against bad lock.

So, although some people may thing that Halloween was once a practice of evil people, Halloween itself did not grow out of evil practices. It grew out of the rituals of Celtics celebrating a new year, and out of Medieval prayer rituals of Europeans. You have nothing to fear and you should just enjoy the good clean fun of Halloween.

Jack-O- lantern History:

• The custom is believed to have come from Irish folklore. As the tale sis told, a man named Jack, who was notorious as a joker and trickster, tricked the devil into climbing a tree. Jack then carved and image of a cross in the tree’s trunk, trapping the devil up the tree.

• According to the fork tale, after Jack died, he was denied entrance to heaven because of his trickster ways, but he was also denied access to hell because he had tricked the devil. Instead, the devil gave him a single ember to light his way through the frigid darkness. The ember was placed inside a hollowed- out turnip to keep it glowing longer.

• The Irish used turnips as there “Jack’s lanterns originally. But when the immigrants came to America, they fund that pumpkins were for more plentiful then turnips.

• So the Jack- O- Lantern in America be came a hollowed-out pumpkin, lit with a candle instead of an ember like the ones you see nowadays.