holidays

Why do we give out candies on Halloween? Who was the first to think, “By Jove, I have it! How about we have youngsters take on the appearance of little evils, visit the neighborhood, and request sweets in return for not vandalizing their homes”? Halloween as we know it today is a rather new convention, beginning in the late 1930s and mid-’40s. But its roots backpedal a lot further. Two thousand years ago, the Celts,…