Halloween Tradition Actually Dates Back to Antiquity...
Trick or treat is the best part.
Children approaching houses dressed in costume. Bag open to receive a treat. Chocolate was always the best one. As a child my mother would eagerly await my return with the bag and then over the next few weeks raid my stash of chocolate. She dressed me as a clown. Complete with a little squeezy horn. A good fit actually. RIP Mum.
It's a great holiday for the kids. Not at all scary for them. Just fun with candy treats galore. They are so cute dressed in their costumes. I was in the store the other day and watched as a little boy, maybe six years old picked out the most awful mask on the display. A Frankenstein type mask with scars and blood dripping. Just horrible. He played a joke on his mother and big sister who were in the next aisle. He suddenly came around the corner and growled at them with the mask on. They pretended to be frightened and everyone laughed. They knew behind the horror was someone who was not at all horrible.
I began to think that it may be like that in real life also.
Approaching a home and begging actually reflects a timeless tradition in some of the older cultures, like the Vedic culture of India. Students and renunciates would go daily to beg some rice or grains or other edibles from householders. It benefitted the householder to give in charity. And the students and renunciates lived solely by begging like this.
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In recent times there has been a bit of a problem that can happen. That is why it is best to let the children approach only the houses of people are known in the neighborhood. Unscrupulous and definitely deranged people have been known to contaminate the sweets. The famous one is the razor blade in an apple.
Great holiday. Lots of fun for everyone...
Happy holiday, @jiva34. Thanks for telling us this interesting story.
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Hi @jiva34 and thank you for taking time and preparing a post dedicated for Halloween. I agree with you it is a lot of fun to see how the little children get excited about the whole preparation around Halloween, it is only the time when the kids allowed to scary adults and be not punished for that.
Like you mentioned it is nowadays the other side of human character, that I never will be able to understand why they do that to harm others and spoil the sweets that given away. I believe in our time it is better for kids to visit the houses where you know the people and where the kids will be treated appropriately.
It was nice to read your post, is that image you created yourself using the image of "apple" from free source?
Hi. It was interesting to me how the old Vedic culture supports begging from householders by students studying in an ashram (children). And present day Trick or Treat. Renunciates also would beg from householders. If the householder was not welcoming to the renunciate they might get a karmic reaction (an undesirable "trick" of nature). The apple was cut and paste from freesource. the rest was AI. Stay safe..
Que cool esa práctica de dar dulces a los niños en halloween 🥳 debe ser ser genial. Suerte en el concurso.
The children look forward to it. Dress up in a costume and knock the door. "Trick or Treat" and get a sweet.
Los niños lo esperan con ansias. Vístete con un disfraz y llama a la puerta. "Truco o trato" y llévate un dulce.