History
Halloween origins in the ancient Celtic Festival. It is a time when kids dress up as monsters and go from door to door wanting candy. Also some people thinks its a time to scare people and play pranks on them. Hallows Eve, or the night before the 'All Hallows', also called 'All Hallowmas', or 'All Saints', or 'All Souls' Day, observed on November 1, which honors all saints. (In old English the word 'Hallow' meant 'sanctify'.)
Trick or Treat
In peasant practices, they would go around collecting money, eggs, butter, and apples to prepare for the festival of St. Columb Kill. In the ninth-century a European custom was 'souling'. On Nov. 2, All souls day, early Christians would walk from village to village asking for soul cakes. The more cakes they would recieve, the more prayers they would promise to save.
Jack-O-Lanterns
Irish Children would carve out potatoes and turnips and light them for gatherings. 'Jack' is a villan that neither God or the devil wanted. Often denied, he searched for a place to rest. His only heat was from a candle in a rotten turnip.
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