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Originally Posted by BeccaPrice
All Hallow's Eve was celebrated as Samhain long before the Christians got a hold of it. Trick or treating is actually a fairly modern custom (dates from the 50s, according to one article I read), but dressing up and making vegetables into lanterns is really quite old.
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Maybe trick or treating, with that name and in its exact current form in the USA, dates from the mid twentieth century. However, visiting houses for edible treats on All Souls' Day (souling) is medieval, and ritual begging (Pćo-por-Deus) was established in Portgual by the 1400s.