More people handing out toys and pencils than people handing out candy. Because today's kids are too fat, they don't need buckets of candy especially if they are all overweight. I know it's the parents responsibility to control the kids candy intake but there are people like my grandmother who do not listen to my mother and I about giving the kids only a few each time. She just takes the whole bag down and gives it to them! Making them throw up or get sick tummies :( I am going to be handing out glow sticks and cute erasers this year and hopefully more people will do the same. Kids don't need candy anymore, but they may not have enough school supplies or may want a bag of toys instead :)
Yes. The main one. You didn't mentioned it as well. And here is clearly visible how society is SICK. We should give a memory to our dead. It's the original purpose of Halloween.
Actually it was to celebrate the end of the harvest and enjoy the fruits of the last years labor before the onset of the harsh (and dark) winter. The faces and dressing up is partly due to various traditions meant to scare off evil spirits since in some places that time of year it was believed that the veil between the earth and the underworld was thinnest allowing spirits to pass through for a time. They also believed, as it is gaelic in origin, that faires would also pass through the viel and that's what the snacks where for, to essentially bribe them. It had only a small aspect of remembering the dead, very minimal.
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