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Halloween (or Hallowe’en) is an annual holiday observed on October 31, which commonly includes activities such as trick-or-treating, attending costume parties, carving jack-o’-lanterns, bonfires, apple bobbing, visiting haunted attractions, playing pranks, telling scary stories, and watching horror films.
Historian Nicholas Rogers, exploring the origins of Halloween, notes that while “some folklorists have detected its origins in the Roman feast of Pomona, the goddess of fruits and seeds, or in the festival of the dead called Parentalia, it is more typically linked to the Celtic festival of Samhain, whose original spelling was Samuin (pronounced sow-an or sow-in)”.[1] The name is derived from Old Irish and means roughly “summer’s end”.[1]
Snap-Apple Night (1832) by Daniel Maclise.
Depicts apple bobbing and divination games at a Halloween party in Blarney, Ireland.
The name ‘Halloween’ and many of its present-day traditions derive from the Old English era. The word Halloween is first attested in the 16th century and represents a Scottish variant of the fuller All-Hallows-Even (“evening”), that is, the night before All Hallows Day.[4] Although the phrase All Hallows is found in Old English (ealra hālgena mæssedæg, mass-day of all saints), All-Hallows-Even is itself not attested until 1556.[4]
Development of artifacts and symbols associated with Halloween formed over time encompassing customs of medieval holy days as well as contemporary cultures.[citation needed] For instance, the carving of jack-o’-lanterns springs from the souling custom of carving turnips into lanterns as a way of remembering the souls held in purgatory.[5] The carving of pumpkins is associated with Halloween in North America where pumpkins are both readily available and much larger – making them easier to carve than turnips.[6] The American tradition of carving pumpkins preceded the Great Famine period of Irish immigration[7] and was originally associated with harvest time in general, not becoming specifically associated with Halloween until the mid-to-late 19th century.[8][9]
The imagery of Halloween is derived from many sources, including national customs, works of Gothic and horror literature (such as the novels Frankenstein and Dracula), and classic horror films (such as Frankenstein and The Mummy).[10] Among the earliest works on the subject of Halloween is from Scottish poet John Mayne in 1780, who made note of pranks at Halloween; “What fearfu’ pranks ensue!”, as well as the supernatural associated with the night, “Bogies” (ghosts), influencing Robert Burns’ Halloween 1785.[11] Elements of the autumn season, such as pumpkins, corn husks, and scarecrows, are also prevalent. Homes are often decorated with these types of symbols around Halloween.[citation needed]
Halloween imagery includes themes of death, evil, the occult, or mythical monsters.[12] Black and orange are the traditional Halloween colors.[citation needed]
Trick-or-treating is a customary celebration for children on Halloween. Children go in costume from house to house, asking for treats such as candy or sometimes money, with the question, “Trick or treat?” The word “trick” refers to a (mostly idle) “threat” to perform mischief on the homeowners or their property if no treat is given. In some parts of Scotland children still go guising. In this custom the child performs some sort of trick, i.e. sings a song or tells a ghost story, to earn their treats.
The practice of dressing up in costumes and begging door to door for treats on holidays dates back to the Middle Ages and includes Christmas wassailing. Trick-or-treating resembles the late medieval practice of souling, when poor folk would go door to door on Hallowmas (November 1), receiving food in return for prayers for the dead on All Souls’ Day (November 2). It originated in Ireland and Britain,[13] although similar practices for the souls of the dead were found as far south as Italy.[14] Shakespeare mentions the practice in his comedy The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1593), when Speed accuses his master of “puling [whimpering or whining] like a beggar at Hallowmas.”[15] American historian and author Ruth Edna Kelley of Massachusetts wrote the first book length history of the holiday in the US; The Book of Hallowe’en (1919), and references souling in the chapter “Hallowe’en in America”;
The taste in Hallowe’en festivities now is to study old traditions, and hold a Scotch party, using Burn’s poem Hallowe’en as a guide; or to go a-souling as the English used. In short, no custom that was once honored at Hallowe’en is out of fashion now.[16]
In her book, Kelley touches on customs that arrived from across the Atlantic; “Americans have fostered them, and are making this an occasion something like what it must have been in its best days overseas. All Hallowe’en customs in the United States are borrowed directly or adapted from those of other countries”.[17]
In Scotland and Ireland, the traditional Halloween custom of Guising — disguised in costume going from door to door to be rewarded with food or coins — became practice by the late 19th century.[18][19] Guising in North America is first recorded in 1911, when a newspaper in Kingston, Ontario reported children going “guising” around the neighborhood.[20] Another isolated reference to ritual begging on Halloween appears, place unknown, in 1915, with a third reference in Chicago in 1920.[21]
The earliest known use in print of the term “trick or treat” appears in 1927, from Blackie, Alberta, Canada:
Hallowe’en provided an opportunity for real strenuous fun. No real damage was done except to the temper of some who had to hunt for wagon wheels, gates, wagons, barrels, etc., much of which decorated the front street. The youthful tormentors were at back door and front demanding edible plunder by the word “trick or treat” to which the inmates gladly responded and sent the robbers away rejoicing.[22]
The thousands of Halloween postcards produced between the turn of the 20th century and the 1920s commonly show children but do not depict trick-or-treating.[23] The editor of a collection of over 3,000 vintage Halloween postcards writes, “There are cards which mention the custom [of trick-or-treating] or show children in costumes at the doors, but as far as we can tell they were printed later than the 1920s and more than likely even the 1930s. Tricksters of various sorts are shown on the early postcards, but not the means of appeasing them”.[24] Trick-or-treating does not seem to have become a widespread practice until the 1930s, with the first U.S. appearances of the term in 1934,[25] and the first use in a national publication occurring in 1939.
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You’re far more annoying than people posting first. I thought this ridiculously long inane posting after ‘firsters’ had ended. Go die.
cool story, bro
Too long, did not read.
That actually happened to me once. O_o
Classic Homer
2nd
Epic fails:
Sometimes, you don’t have a reason.
Epic fails:
Sometimes, you don’t have a excuse.
FTFY
Epic fails:
Sometimes, you don’t have an excuse.
corn flakes and milk equals *it bursts into flames* DOH!
lulwtf. xD
I always found that scene amusing. It also makes me think of The Sims and how my Sim apparently needs to spend 3 hours studying a cookbook so they can make a poptart without burning down their kitchen.
Cool story, bro…
Cool story, bro is supposed to be used against trolls, not for trolling.
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That gives an idea of a very funny prank. Put pure sodium in a box of cereal (since it is dry) and when they put milk, BAAAAMMM!!!!
You have a rather sociopathic sense of humor.
dude.. you are my hero
BRILLIANT! Gonna do this now. I’ll put the results on Youtube when I get around to it!
Just hope they don’t eat cereal dry……
humm… stick the eggs in the microwave then
How do women pull it off?
your skill in cooking has dropped to -9001.
you have earned the achievement”cooking is hard”
you have earned the title”Swedish chef”.
So, what episode is this again?
[3F14] Homer the Smithers