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[email protected] Phone: 603-747-2887 • Fax: 603-747-2889 7 6 5 Website: www.trendytimes.com OCTOBER 25, 2011 VOLUME 3 NUMBER 2 TwO HisTOries Of HallOween Trick Or Treat! By Marianne L. Kelly “Trick or Treat, smell my feet, AmericAn HAlloween give me something good to We have European immi - History Of Halloween Galore! eat!” grants and Native Americans In just a few days a to thank for introducing Hal - plethora of witches, goblins, loween to our country around By Lenora Ellison ghosts, clowns, super heroes the 1840s. Early celebrations and the like will show up on were strictly limited due to Halloween originated theon in Rome to honor all 1864, helped to popularize our door steps chanting “trick rigid religious beliefs. What 2,000 years ago with the an - Christian martyrs, and the Halloween. or treat!” before returning started out as a celebration of cient Celtic festival of Catholic feast of All Martyrs' Americans took from home to devour their haul of the harvest quickly morphed Samhain in the area that is Day was established in the English and Irish traditions goodies. Halloween is great into neighbors gathering, now Ireland, the United King - Western Church. Pope and went from house to for dentists! sharing ghost stories, tales of dom, and northern France. Gregory III later expanded house asking for food and This Halloween custom the dead and telling each Samhain, (pronounced sow- the festival to include all money, a practice that even - has been celebrated for cen - other’s fortunes.