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Trick-or-treating.
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Trick-or-treating.
Trick-or-treating, today, very much an All-American tradition, was derived from the English (not Irish)tradition of ‘souling' where folk went round houses on All Souls Day (2nd November) asking for soul cakes. The more cakes they got the more prayers they'd promise to say on behalf of the givers' dead relatives.
