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  • Trick or treating comes from the Middle-Age practice of the poor dressing up in costumes and going around door to door during Hallowmas begging for food or money in exchange for prayers. The food given was often a Soul Cake, which was a small round cake which represented a soul being freed from Purgatory when the cake was eaten.

  • People love carving pumpkins at Halloween, but few know the jack-o-lantern’s dark history. According to Celtic lore, a miserly old man used to play tricks on the devil and was thus denied entrance to both heaven and hell. Instead, the old man was condemned to wander the Earth and used his lantern to lead people astray from their paths.

  • Owls are popular Halloween symbols. In medieval times, owls were believed to be witches, and if you heard the call of an owl it meant that someone was about to die.

  • Halloween is also know by other names:
    All Hallows Eve
    Samhain
    All Hallowtide
    The Feast of the Dead
    The Day of the Dead

  • The owl is a popular Halloween image. In Medieval Europe, owls were thought to be witches, and to hear an owl's call meant someone was about to die.

  • Halloween also is recognized as the 3rd biggest party day after New Year's and Super Bowl Sunday.

  • Halloween is Oct. 31 – the last day of the Celtic calendar. It actually was a pagan holiday honoring the dead.

  • Trick-or-treating evolved from the ancient Celtic tradition of putting out treats and food to placate spirits who roamed the streets at Samhain, a sacred festival that marked the end of the Celtic calendar year.

  • Halloween is correctly spelt as Hallowe'en.

  • If you see a spider on this night, it could be the spirit of a dead loved one who is watching you.

  • Halloween is one of the oldest celebrations in the world, dating back over 2000 years to the time of the Celts who lived in Britain.

  • More than 93 percent of children go trick-or-treating each year. (source: NCA)

  • The tradition of adding pranks into the Halloween mix started to turn ugly in the 1930's and a movement began to substitute practical jokes for kids going door to door collecting candy.

  • Black cats get a bad rap on Halloween because they were once believed to be protected their master's dark powers.

  • Halloween was originally a Celtic holiday celebrated on October 31.

  • Halloween was brought to North America by immigrants from Europe who would celebrate the harvest around a bonfire, share ghost stories, sing, dance and tell fortunes.

  • Orange and black are Halloween colors because orange is associated with the Fall harvest and black is associated with darkness and death.

  • There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, the color of pumpkin.

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