The elanUpdating Young Minds www.gardencity.university 2 November, 2018 Tricks, Treats and Dead Souls: Halloween Karnataka Rajyotsava National Legal Services Day and Food Traditions GCU From Spook to POP, A Halloween Garden Glam- An Innovative UCJC and GCU- A Budding Initiative 2 Fashion 3Initiative 4 between Spain and India The Evolution of Trick O’ Treating Nearly 2,000 years ago early 19th-century America like in the family television but execs were looking for a basically synonymous. in the Celtic countries was a night for pranks, tricks, show Ozzie and Harriet. way to boost fall candy sales. In this era very few children of northwestern Europe illusions, and anarchy. Jack- As times modernized and Therefore the Candy Day was have an inkling of the Halloween was born. o’-lanterns dangled urbanized, mischief turned invented. It started being degree of mischief that was November 1 is the right time from the ends to mayhem and eventually celebrated on the second once possible. The modern for Halloween, the date cuts of sticks, and incited a movement to quell Saturday in October. They Halloween prank, be it the agricultural year in two. It teens jumped what the mid-20th-century sold it as a holiday of goodwill spectacle, internet joke, was Samhain, summer’s end, press called the “Halloween and friendship, although it entertainment, or clever the beginning of the season problem” to make the was really a manufactured subversion, is a treat in considered as dangerous, holiday a safer diversion for holiday invented with one disguise, an offering that’s dark and cold, youngsters. If it weren’t for goal in mind: making money usually as much fun for the tricks of the past, there’d So how did the rise of treats the tricked as it is for the be no treats today. People as an alternative to tricks trickster. All these tricks are then started giving treats to happened? While the candy taken lightheartedly now and avoid getting tricked. That industry was on the hunt for every one joins together in became the concept behind a fall holiday, neighborhood the fun. Halloween is seen ‘trick or treat?’ Today there parents were looking for an as a day to cause mischief, which are different variants of organized activity to keep a day of coming together to according trick or treating: trunk or youngsters out of trouble. have fun, dress up scarily or to folklore, created treat, where kids go car-to- Back in the 1950s and as their favourite characters, a rift in reality that car in a parking lot asking for 1960s, kids could expect to eating a lot of candies and set spirits free, candy; and trick or treat for get nuts, coins, or toys from decorating their houses as both good UNICEF, where youngsters certain houses, and if they spookily as they wish. This and bad. collect money for charity did get a sweet treat, it was shines a light on the fact that People along with their treats. typically a home-baked good. every festival is an occasion blamed Americans buy But as trick-or-treating grew to forget differences and the approximately 600 in popularity, the economic come together as a whole. For spirits million pounds of and ease factors of candy that I think we are all thankful for the candy for Halloween began to make it the more to the long line of pranksters creepy every year. Back popular giveaway. Candy has who gave us the tradition. things, out from behind in 1916, Christmas become a deeply ingrained people getting lost in walls to terrorize smaller and Easter were the major part of this season. Today, fairy mounds, dangerous kids. It was nothing like holidays to peddle sweets, sugar and Halloween are Nisha Mukherjee creatures that emerged the pumpkin patches and from the mist and all things pageants that kids love today. spooky that happened Some have traced the at that time of the year. earliest print reference of Immigrants from Ireland the term trick or treat to and Scotland brought their 1927 in Alberta, Canada. It Halloween superstitions to appears that the practice America in the 18th and didn’t really take hold in 19th centuries, and their the US until the mid-1930s, youngsters became the first where it wasn’t always well American masterminds of received. The demanding of mischief. Kids strung ropes a treat angered or puzzled across sidewalks to trip some adults. Supposedly, in people in the dark, tied a Halloween parade in 1948 the doorknobs of opposing in New York, the Madison apartments together, mowed Square Boys Club carried a down shrubs, upset swill banner sporting the message barrels, rattled or soaped “American Boys Don’t Beg.” windows, and, once, filled But by 1952, the practice was the streets of Catalina Island widely accepted enough to be with boats. Halloween in mentioned in popular media, GARDEN CITY UNIVERSITY NEWS PAGE 2 Tricks, Treats and Dead Souls: How to Dress Up Halloween Food Traditions as The Dead It’s kind of funny to think complete with a barrel full disguises designed to ward It’s time to get a little silver are most widely used how Halloween has been of water surrounded by folks off visits from unwelcomed spooked! It’s Halloween! It colours as those two are repackaged and reimported bobbing for apples. A favorite spirits. 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