Trick-or-treating is a traditional Halloween custom for children and adults in some countries. During the evening of Halloween, on October 31, people in costumes travel from house to house, asking for treats with the phrase "trick or treat".

Burgeoning new suburbs provided accessible Halloween routes for families, and the rise of individually wrapped pieces of candy made it easy for adults to distribute treats to children—and to help...

2019年10月3日 · Trick-or-treating—setting off on Halloween night in costume and ringing doorbells to demand treats—has been a tradition in the United States and other countries for more than a century. Its...

2024年10月29日 · In modern times, trick-or-treating has become a nearly sacred Halloween tradition in the United States. Yet historians say the origins of kids begging their neighbors for food may date back...

2024年8月2日 · Trick-or-treating may be the best part of Halloween—whether you're the kid gathering a big stash of Halloween candy to savor and trade or a grown-up marveling at the Halloween costume creativity (and giving them a goodie or two, of course). But how did the Halloween trick-or-treating tradition begin?

2023年10月24日 · When you think about it, trick-or-treating is kind of a weird thing. Where did it come from, anyway? Halloween’s origins go back 2,000 years, to the Celtic holiday of Samhain, which marked...

2024年10月31日 · Between 1920 and 1950, trick-or-treating became an inexpensive way for people to celebrate Halloween and avoid having their homes vandalized (hence, the trick in trick-or-treating) as...

2024年5月2日 · Every year on Halloween, kids, accompanied by their parents, turn out in droves to canvass the neighborhoods for goodies. It’s the trick-or-treating tradition that no kid can do without! But where did this tradition come from? The Ghosts Return! Samhain was an ancient Celtic festival celebrated about 2,000 years ago.

2022年7月13日 · In the 1960s, several scary urban legends built up around Halloween suggested that innocent young children were at risk during the beloved Halloween ritual of trick-or-treating. Over the next few decades, there were anonymous reports of poisoned candy, costumed killers stalking college dorms, Satanic cults offering up sacrifices, and warnings ...

2017年10月26日 · By the 1930s, North America had a new term for the old tradition: trick-or-treating. And as suburbanization grew in the 1950s, trick-or-treating grew into the kid-friendly practice it’s...