Trick-or-treating

It’s that time of year when underaged kids get into costume and travel around the neighborhood ringing doorbells and wanting a lot of treats. When do you think about it, trick or treating is kind of a weird thing. Where did it come from though? I was looking through the web and discovered that the practice began with the Celtic tradition of celebrating the end of the year by dressing up as evil spirits. The Celts believed that, as we moved from one year to the next, the dead and the living would…

Halloween and prom, are both very important nights for young boys and girls. While both are extremely different, they share similarities as well. The attire, time of year, and the emotional atmosphere of the two events, all play into effect on both nights. Halloween is a night where kids of all ages get to be whatever they desire. Goblins, superheroes, witches, and ghosts are among some of the costumes worn on Halloween. Prom, however, is a night where teenagers get to dress like young…

Halloween was not always what it is in the world today. It originated from the Pagan religion, and it is now a holiday where kids dress up and go trick-or-treating. The past and the present are quite different in how people celebrate this holiday and what it means to them. This holiday was once strictly a religious holiday for the Celts, however in today’s world it has drastically changed the meaning of the holiday and made it into a holiday where it consists of making money, dressing up and…

Halloween Party Pooper Is Halloween really worth spending hours upon hours getting ready and walking door to door just for candy? Well, by personal experience, going trick or treating is not worth the outcome by any means. -- I was ten minutes away from finishing my mime makeup before heading over to my friend, Emily, to go trick or treating. As I made the triangular shape around my eye with black eye makeup, my hand shook vigorously due to my nerves. I did not know why I was so nervous, but I…

Today Halloween is the second most commercialized and profitable holidays in today’s world, where trick or treating, costumes, and decorations all are apart of some of the favorite things we like to think about with Halloween. Although in Rick Bass’s short story Antlers, the story starts with the town’s annual Halloween party, where the traditions they have are a little less traditional. In the story the party itself holds a very symbolic meaning and has many underlying tones throughout the…

Trick or Treat! More like a trick. “Katie!Katie!” I called as I knocked louder and louder. And finally Katie opened the door. “Trick or treat!” I said. For halloween, my friend’s Katie and Thao would go trick or treating with me. Katie was a lovely princess, I was Dorthy from the Wizard of Oz, and Thao was an evil witch. Katie’s mom gave me some tasty candy. Then we picked up Thao and got some yummy chocolate coins. Finally our little group was complete. After that we went to the apartment in…

for Halloween, which totals up to a whopping 1.9 billion dollars. Kids around the world are enjoying the fun of it yearly, which is great in my opinion. Even though nearly everyone loves Halloween, there are still some flaws I’ve seen while trick or treating, or in the news. Whether it is wasting candy, lacing it with drugs, or unenthusiastic people, I think we need to change it. If I could change something in the world, it would be the way we give out and eat candy for Halloween. The first…

the evil spirits. The Celtics believed that the end of the year which is October 31st, the living and dead world would overlap. This resulted in the dead having access to roam earth again. So by people dressing up in costumes they were trying to trick the spirits into believing that they themselves are spirits too. Spirits were also thought to visit their last residence in search of hospitality, so people left food and drinks on their doorsteps as an offering. They would also go guising which…

ghosts and would also light bonfires. Then they took these traditions to America in the 19th century. And this is how we now have halloween! In America we have a few very unique traditions for celebrating Halloween. One of our traditions is trick or treating, it was started a long time ago when the Irish kids went door to door begging…

doors and people would go trick-or-treating making sure to hit each and every house.Irony several including a skeleton crash test dummy a ninja and of mine. Even in an ice cream cone the year before this Photograph was taken I still manage to go out for the holiday. I had a ton of homework that night Nightwing biology Civics and economics and math 2 my phone that there was enough to keep me busy the entire night. as a result I told my mom and sister to go trick or treating without me. somehow…