What's the Real History of Halloween? Experts Explain the Holiday's Origins
What is the history of Halloween — and why do we celebrate it?
The night before All Saints' Day, people would hold vigils for the souls that hadn’t yet gone to heaven and were trapped in purgatory. In essence, it was night to pray for the dead — and thus Halloween was born. For many years, Halloween was a night where pranksters tricked unsuspecting people. By the 1930s, pranks escalated to the point that they were costing cities millions of dollars.
The bottom line? Trick-or-treating began as a bribe. Kelly said that"it picked up speed in the United States in the '30s and '40s" — and the rest is, well, history.Halloween is an open invitation to dress up as someone else and play pretend. But where did wearing Halloween costumes come from?
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