HH10- Trick or Treat Traditional Cache
Team-Gates: This one has been around long enough, thanks for all the visits!
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Cache is located within a park, so please observe park rules and hours! Happy Halloween 2010, cache is placed in celebration of Halloween. Cache has no pen or pencil, so bring your own. Please replace cache as you found for the next cacher. Watch out for park muggles, they're lurking everywhere! Coords accurate within 7 feet.
The practice of dressing up in costumes and begging door to door for treats on holidays dates back to the Middle Ages and includes Christmas wassailing. Trick-or-treating resembles the late medieval practice of souling, when poor folk would go door to door on Hallowmas (November 1), receiving food in return for prayers for the dead on All Souls Day (November 2). It originated in Ireland and Britain, although similar practices for the souls of the dead were found as far south as Italy. The custom of wearing costumes and masks at Halloween goes back to Celtic traditions of attempting to copy the evil spirits or placate them, in Scotland for instance where the dead were impersonated by young men with masked, veiled or blackened faces, dressed in white.
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