Re: USAGE: "I want crazy two years ago"

Michael Adams wrote:
>
> Trick or Treat, when your dead ancestors come back
> from the world of the dead, around 15 October, they
> want something, blood and food or mischief. So to keep
> them busy, you give them treats or they take your arm
> or cattle (trick is how they take your cattle, eat them or
> just steal them). Also could be a methaphor for the Tax
> Man or just local raider or like?
This is on October 31, the evening of All Saints Day, which
is November 1. This was once called All Hallows Day, so
the evening was called All Hallows Even, now corrupted to
Halloween.

--Ph. D.

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