Why Do We Say ‘Trick or Treat’ on Halloween
E ach Halloween, hordes of costumed
kids trudge1 from door to door ex-claiming the same phrase at each stop: “Trick or treat!” It’s really a treat-only affair, since adults always
candy and children rarely
万圣节是几月几日2022年their sleeves3 (except perhaps for those dressed as magicians). In other words,
World War II, but the tradition (and the phrase itself) had gained popular-ity once again by the early 1950s—with some help from candy companies and a few beloved pop culture charac-ters. Charles Schulz depicted the Pea-nuts12 gang cavorting13 around town in costume for a Halloween comic strip14 in 1951; and Huey, Dewey, and Louie15 got to go trick-or-treating in a 1952 Donald Duck cartoon titled Trick or Treat.
9  Fortunately, the treat part of the phrase has thoroughly overtaken the trick part. But if you stuff rank cab-bage in your neighbor’s keyhole this Halloween, we won’t tell.■

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