Farmville Quest Guide Trick or Treat

Trick or Treat!: Part 1

Children in costumes travel from house to house in order to ask for treats such as candy with the phrase Trick or treat!

Trick or Treat!: Part 2

In North America, trick or treat has been a customary Halloween tradition since the late 1920s, it usually happens on 31st Oct !

Trick or Treat!: Part 3

The earliest known use in print of the term 'trick or treat' appears in 1927, from Blackie, Alberta

Trick or Treat!: Part 4

Almost all pre-1940 uses of the term 'trick-or-treat' are from the western United States and Canada

Trick or Treat!: Part 5

Homeowners wishing to participate in it sometimes decorate their private entrances with artificial spider webs, plastic skeletons and jack-o-lanterns

Trick or Treat!: Part 6

The tradition of going from door to door receiving food already existed in Great Britain and Ireland in the form of souling, where children and poor people would sing and say prayers for the dead in return for cakes.

Trick or Treat!: Part 7

The practice of dressing up in costumes and going door to door for treats on holidays dates back to the Middle Ages

Trick or Treat!: Part 8

Trick-or-treating resembles the late medieval Christian practice of souling, when poor folk would go door to door on Hallowmas (November 1), receiving food in return for prayers for the dead on All Souls Day

Trick or Treat!: Part 9

The custom of wearing costumes and masks at Halloween goes back to Celtic traditions of attempting to copy the evil spirits or placate them, in Scotland for instance where the dead were impersonated by young men with masked, veiled or blackened faces, dressed in white.