When it was explained to me it was a lot darker I was told the veil between the world of the living and the dead was thin on the night of Halloween and we dressed up so that the souls that came back through the veil for that night thought you were one of them and if they didn't they could drag your souls back to the other side of the veil with them
2024-10-26 16:00:35
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Ashbylake2021 :
I am from Kingston Ontario and had NO IDEA … thank you for your videos
2024-10-26 01:49:46
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cozysavvy :
Well now they dress up as memes😂
2024-10-27 18:12:41
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Manuel Phrimpz🇬🇭🇨🇦 :
What has pumpkin 🎃 got to to with Halloween
2024-10-25 22:56:23
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Angi :
In Germany we have a tradition of dressing up (not scary) and asking for treats on December 6th. Its the day of saint Nicolaus. Kids polish their shoes the night before and get a filled shoe the next
2024-10-26 10:01:56
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shadow123 :
thanks for the info
2024-10-25 22:31:29
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Jude 🇨🇦 :
I remember spelling Halloween as Hallowe'en as a kid. Never noticed when the apostrophe was dropped.
2024-10-28 05:17:42
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Phoenix Willington🇵🇸🇸🇩🇨🇩 :
Can a real historian verify this? Because I have a hunch that this guy is getting some facts wrong and/or mixing things up…🤔
2024-10-26 08:10:05
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Renata Perpuly :
Samhain it is a festival but also the name of a demon of h311
2024-10-27 04:35:13
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1VillageWorld :
got damn Kingston ontario near Toronto that's mind blowing 🤯
2024-10-26 15:24:26
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Gil.T_The_Pict :
in Scotland, as a kid we would go guising. we'd tell a joke or something and get either some sweets (candy), monkey nuts or maybe a 50p or £1 if we were lucky! our bags would last weeks!!
2024-10-26 08:59:27
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mutantg1rl🇨🇦 :
I’m from Kingston Ont!!!
2024-10-26 18:08:32
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🦋 Dianne 🦋 :
very interesting. I also learned that my birthday on November 1st is All saints day 🥰
2024-10-26 09:50:46
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harlow_marie :
Samhain is still celebrated 😀
2024-10-25 22:24:47
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susankay :
My Dad would always tell me that when he was growing up, late 1920's-mid1930's, and it was only about the tricking. He was thrown in the jail many a year, after outhouse tipping (the Sheriff was
2024-10-25 23:51:16
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Running Rampant :
So trick or treat is backwards if it was to be a threat. “Give us the treat or we will trick you” so it should be ‘treat or trick’
2024-10-28 08:33:58
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Kimi cadet 2709 :
It’s funny souling sounds like the week of the holly spirit same concept poor pray everyday for a week to partake in the feast of the rich.
2024-10-26 12:15:02
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Dalan_Frook :
“Trick or treat” It was written in a Sault St Marie Paper in 1917 after it was being told around the small town of Chatsworth Ontario
2024-10-26 12:41:05
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Jack H M Hansen :
in Denmark we have i similar day in February, where kids dress up as whatever they want, and the next day, they would go door to door and sing a song for money, its called fastelavn 😊
2024-10-25 22:51:12
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Cat 🇮🇪 :
It was Ireland's holiday, look up how they traditionally carved jack-o-lanterns for a real scare 😅🤣
2024-10-28 01:26:56
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Anastasija :
In Macedonia we don’t have Halloween bit we have kolede and its similar we go from door to door early morning before Christmas eve and we sing a song that it goes kind of like…
2024-10-26 12:10:47
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Morton’s Munchies :
Love this! I’ve always wondered.
2024-10-26 04:50:33
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Nelson Coelho :
In Portugal we still have "Pão por Deus" on November 1st that translates to "bread for god (in a sense of a pray).
2024-10-29 14:14:30
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