Trick-or-treating
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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
A child dressed as a skeleton trick-or-treating in Redford, Michigan, US, on October 31, 1979
Halloween shop in Derry, Northern Ireland. Halloween masks are called ‘false faces’ in Ireland and Scotland.
Girl in a Halloween costume in 1928 in Ontario, Canada, the same province where the Scottish Halloween custom of "guising" is first recorded in North America
Magazine advertisement in 1962
Allhallowtide
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Allhallowtide is the Western Christian season encompassing the triduum of All Hallows' Eve, All Hallows' Day and All Souls' Day, as well as the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church an
The Church Militant and the Church Triumphant, fresco by Andrea da Firenze in Santa Maria Novella, c. 1365
Many of the remains of the martyrs of the ancient Church lie in the catacombs
Hallowe'en decorations in Eifeler Hof, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
A cemetery outside an Evangelical Lutheran church (Church of Sweden) in Röke, Sweden on the feast of All Hallows. Flowers and lighted candles are placed by relatives on the graves of their deceased loved ones.