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The American Halloween tradition of trick-or-treating probably dates back to the early All Souls\u2019 Day parades in England. During the festivities, poor citizens would beg for food and families would give them pastries called \u201csoul cakes\u201d in return for their promise to pray for the family\u2019s dead relatives.<\/p>\n
The distribution of soul cakes was encouraged by the church as a way to replace the ancient practice of leaving food and wine for roaming spirits. The practice, which was referred to as \u201cgoing a-souling,\u201d was eventually taken up by children who would visit the houses in their neighborhood and be given ale, food and money.<\/p>\n
The tradition of dressing in costume for Halloween has both European and Celtic roots. Hundreds of years ago, winter was an uncertain and frightening time. Food supplies often ran low and, for the many people afraid of the dark, the short days of winter were full of constant worry.<\/p>\n
On Halloween, when it was believed that ghosts came back to the earthly world, people thought that they would encounter ghosts if they left their homes. To avoid being recognized by these ghosts, people would wear masks when they left their homes after dark so that the ghosts would mistake them for fellow spirits.<\/p>\n
On Halloween, to keep ghosts away from their houses, people would place bowls of food outside their homes to appease the ghosts and prevent them from attempting to enter.<\/p>\n
New words:
\n– trick-or-treating (n) \/\u02cctr\u026ak.\u0254\u02d0\u02c8tri\u02d0.t\u026a\u014b\/ an activity in which children dress upas magical or frightening creatures or as characters from a story on Halloween (= 31 October ), and visit people’s homes to demand sweets
\n– parades (n): \/p\u0259\u02c8re\u026ad\/ a large number of people walking or in vehicles, all going in the same direction, usually as part of a public celebration of something
\n– pastries (n): \/\u02c8pe\u026a.stri\/ a food made from a mixture of flour, fat, and water, rolled flat and either wrapped around or put over or under other foods, and then baked.<\/p>\n
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The American Halloween tradition of trick-or-treating probably dates back to the early All Souls\u2019 Day parades in England. During the festivities, poor citizens would beg for food and families would give them pastries called \u201csoul cakes\u201d in return for their promise to pray for the family\u2019s dead relatives. The distribution of soul cakes was encouraged…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":4709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nn.ntt.edu.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nn.ntt.edu.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nn.ntt.edu.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nn.ntt.edu.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nn.ntt.edu.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nn.ntt.edu.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nn.ntt.edu.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nn.ntt.edu.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nn.ntt.edu.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nn.ntt.edu.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}