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Imagine this: people in 4th Century Europe devoting a day to pray for the many martyrs and saints who have fallen. Now imagine this: children shivering as they make their way door to door in creative, silly costumes asking for candy. How exactly did this transition occur?
Halloween finds influences in All Saints' Day
Seeded on Wed Oct 31, 2007 5:00 PM EDT
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The use of relics became more and more spectacular as fake relics began to turn up and fakers told more amnd more fantastical tales about them.
If I remember rightly Denmark also has a kind of Halloween, where they leave foods on their doorstep to keep the Nisser from smashing dishes and making mischief.
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