We all know Halloween as a time of costumes and candy, trick or treating, and undead. But the holiday started in Irland at the end of the harvesting season the poor would go door to door begging for "treats" in exchange for prayers for the dead on the night of OCT.31st.
Now in the 21st century Halloween in mostly an amercain holiday where the youth dress up in coutumes and go door to door at night asking for candy and other treats. And adults carev jackolanterns for pumkins.