It was started because homeless people went from door to door asking for food
how did the ~America tradition of trick or treating on halloween begin
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it became popular in the 1930's
The idea was said to originate with Gerald Gardner who brought it to the US in 1950's.
It's on the day of October 31. Hours for trick or treating depend on your location.
There is no official time for trick-or-treating to start. Usually, the neighborhood would give a set time for when trick-or-treating should start. If not, the usual time is around 6 p.m. when it's late enough so that everyone is home and everyone had time to eat dinner.
Trick-or-treating in the U.S. began in the early 1900s as a way to divert young people from causing mischief on Halloween night. The practice became more widespread in the 1930s and 1940s, eventually becoming a beloved tradition for children to go door-to-door in costume asking for candy.
AnswerTrick or treating is active in US, Ireland, UK, Canada and is also spreading in Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, and parts of Europe. And partial in AsiaHalloween originated in Ireland and the UK, but has spread in tradition every Halloween night, to go trick or treating.
For 2012 it is 5:30PM - 7:00PM! Yes, Middletown gets a half hour cut compared to other cities around us! So unfair!
People dress up in costumes, go trick or treating, give out candy, decorate our houses, and go to parties. Some people in the U.S. don't celebrate Halloween though, for religious reasons.
He did not trick us. He could spawn in the version 1.5.2 i think or under.
Upon Mary Ewing Outerbridge's return to the US from Bermuda, she brought back the idea of tennis. Bermuda was, and still is, a territory of the United Kingdom, who is regarded as the creator of modern tennis.