Trick or treating is also believed to originate from early medieval pageantry too. Back then, the practice, called ‘going a souling’ involved the poorest members of society going door to door and receiving food such as pastries or specially baked ‘soul cakes’ in return for their promise to pray for the household’s dead relatives.

What’s this? What’s this? Halloween is here!  Or, as I like to call it, ‘National Eat Your Child’s Halloween Candy After They’ve Gone To Sleep Day’!  Whether you have spent the past week immersed in scary movies, elbow deep in pumpkin guts and frantically decorating your house to resemble a haunted mansion or are simply […]