| Once again, it's children's favorite time of the year, | | | | scares, this might have a lot to do with it. |
| Halloween! Loads of candies by the buckets will be all | | | | On the other hand, the fun part or trick-or treating is |
| over the neighborhood on this night and these kids | | | | said to have begun sometime in the Middle Ages |
| will be the excited recipients. Trick or treating has | | | | when poor people visited houses and were given |
| been a famous tradition on this night when kids go | | | | food in exchange for prayers for the donors' |
| around houses and get lots of their favorite tongue | | | | deceased family and friends. Those foods given out |
| treats. This year, those retro sweets that defined | | | | to the the so-called "Halloween peddlers" may now |
| the landscape of candies for the next thirty years will | | | | well be associated all the scrumptious candies, |
| be resurrected like they never before. | | | | especially traditional sweets and their wide varieties, |
| Definitely, Halloween is not just for kids as adults | | | | that modern ghoulishly-clad trick-or-treaters of today |
| who were also once hungry treat or treaters get to | | | | enjoy. |
| reunite with their favorite old-fashioned sweets from | | | | New stories still crop up about the history of this |
| way back when. But that's not to say Halloween's | | | | nocturnal holiday but most seem to agree that it is |
| candied history stops right there. Actually, it's been | | | | of Irish and English descent. However, today, it simply |
| centuries since people came up with this whole | | | | doesn't matter when or where this tradition started. |
| concept. Those were the days of pagan rituals that | | | | We just all now that people enjoy it, children and |
| were later incorporated with the Church. The name | | | | adults alike. The costumes add even more |
| itself is quite mysterious in that nobody exactly | | | | excitement to the season. Ghosts, monsters, |
| knows when and where it began. There are many | | | | vampires, skeletons and every spooky character you |
| stories though. Some say it came from an old Celtic | | | | could of, you'll probably see knocking at your door on |
| festival in celebration of a good harvest. The scary | | | | Halloween night. But as always, it will be a treat in |
| dimension to this night has something to do with | | | | itself to find that under those costumes are just cute |
| these people's belief that this was a time when the | | | | little kiddos wanting to enjoy their childhood with the |
| dead would rise up to spread diseases to the living | | | | addition of practicing this custom that has painted |
| and even to crops. If there's any history to those | | | | many unforgettable smiles on the faces of all who |
| scary-looking pumpkins and other Halloween staple | | | | were once children. |