Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Origins of Halloween
- When were the Middle Ages?
- Middle Ages (5th- 15th century).
- What is Guising?
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- Where did Guising originate?
- Guising at Halloween in North America is first recorded in 1911, where a newspaper in Kingston, Ontario
reported children going "guising" around the neighborhood.
- Which play of Shakespeare's mentions Souling?
- Shakespeare mentions the practice in his comedy The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1593), when Speed
accuses his master of "puling :whimpering or whining like a beggar at Hallowmas."
- What is Souling?
- services of the soul
- Before carving pumpkins, what did people carve to use as lanterns?
- before they carrying lanterns made out of scooped out turnips, visit homes to be rewarded with cakes, fruit and money.
- When did trick-or-treating catch on in America?
- Trick-or-treating in America as we know it today does not seem to have become a widespread practice until
the 1930s, with the first U.S. appearances of the term in 1934.
- What does the word "masquerader" mean?
- is a party or other gathering to which the guests wear masks and costumes