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The Fascinating World of Boredom & The Origins of Halloween Customs

Something You Should Know

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Trick or Treat?

Trick or Treat was invented to get people to stop destroying things and give them something else to distract them. The idea of costumes, dressing up at Halloween as a ghost or a goblin or a superhero, where is that from? It does not have a huge lengthy tradition in terms of Halloween. In the mid-seventeenth century, the British Parliament actually banned all Catholic celebrations.

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