Trick or Treat

[ghoti_mhic_uait]

I might be being overly fastidious, but why is it acceptable for children to go around strangers houses begging for sweets? Why is it acceptable for children to beg at all?

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[aellia.livejournal.com]

As I'm a lot older than most of the commenters here, I can only say that there was no such thing as *trick or treating* when I was young.
Nobody ever celebrated Halloween and all we knew was that it was a "ghostly time" of the year.
I have very mixed feelings about the commercialism of it all..it's getting to be more like Christmas every year,outfits,bags of ghoulish sweets,mini besom brooms and gods forbid..even halloween toilet paper!
Let the children...and the adults have fun..but I just wish that they knew a little more of the history behind the celebration.
It's like saying ..yes we are doing it..but we don't really know why.

A little like asking children why they get Christmas presents..."because it's Christmas" would be the answer in most cases,I believe.
I have a poem that I found some years ago..bit is lost on my PC..I'll find it though..it say's it all really.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

asking children why they get Christmas presents..."because it's Christmas" would be the answer in most cases,I believe.

Because for most people, that is the reason. Christmas celebrations have lost religious significance for the vast majority. Little Baby Jee and saints and angels don't come into it anymore, and electric light and cheap fuel has killed the need to bring colour and warmth back to a chill season.

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

*nod* and I disapprove of Christmas without Christ just as much. I mean, I'll celebrate other people's festivals with them, because it's their festival, but not someone else's festival just me by myself.