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
Halloween costume
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Halloween costumes are costumes worn on Halloween, typically while trick-or-treating. Although traditionally based on frightening supernatural or folkloric beings, by the 1930s costumes based on chara
Costumes at the 2019 New York City Halloween Parade
An early 20th-century Irish Halloween mask (a "rhymer" or "vizor"), displayed at the Museum of Country Life in Ireland.
Facial makeup as masquerade is popular on Halloween, often referring to horror archetypes or various characters from movies or TV shows
People in Halloween costumes