Halloween is an irish custom.Its called oiche samhain.it began before christianity when people feared the approaching dark winter nights.

They believed on halloween night that the barrier between the land of the living and the land of the dead would open,so to appease wandering ghosts they always left an empty chair at the table with a plate of food and a cup of drink.They feraed that if they neglected this that they would be cursed.

Years later when they no longer believed this children would go for door to door collecting fruit,nuts and coins commerating the ghosts.it was not trick or treating as such but in the last few years children now receive sweets,crisps and chocolate.the carved pumkin lantern came from the story jack o’lantern who was kicked out of heaven or something and left to roam earth with his lantern.

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