Trick or treat : a history of Halloween /
Every year, children and adults alike take to the streets dressed as witches, demons, animals, celebrities, and more. They carve pumpkins and play pranks, and the braver ones watch scary movies and go on ghost tours. There are parades, fireworks displays, cornfield mazes, and haunted houses-and, mos...
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London :
Reaktion Books,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Halloween: the misunderstood festival
- Snap-apple Night and November Eve: Halloween in the British Isles
- Trick or treat in the New World
- La Toussaint, Allerbeiligen and Tutti i Santi: the global celebration
- Dias de los Muertos
- From Burns to Burton: Halloween and popular culture.