What actually does TRICK or TREAT mean?

Question

And what is its connection to HALLOWEEN

Answer 1

THE ORIGIN OF "TRICK OR TREAT"
The Celts tried to appease the evil spirits: ghosts, goblins, and demons. Huge "Samhain" bonfires were built to light the way for all the spirits to find their way in to the world of the living. They would leave out food, hoping that this would please the spirit world. If they did not leave a thing, then hence, the spirits would play evil "tricks" on the living in that house. The Druids required human sacrifices, they would go door to door asking for the virgin daughters. If this was not obtained at the chosen homes, then a hexagram was painted on the door in blood to show the appointed evil spirits to cause all kinds of evil to fall on the home. In some cases, even resulted in death.

Answer 2

It's all in this song:
Trick or Treat
Smell My Feet
Give Me Something Good To Eat
If You Don't
I Don't Care
I'll Pull Down Your Underwear!!!!!!!

Its saying that if you dont give me the candy then they will trick you. On halloween people tend to get tricked. You dont want that to happen. Which is why we say 'trick or treat!'

Answer 3

TRICK means you fooling others while TREAT means you serve others. Am not really sure the connection to Halloween but l think it means TREAT others by the meant of TRICKY.

Answer 4

it means if u don't give me a treat i will trick u and it used to be a pegan holiday so trick was like cast a curse or a spell. not to sure how it's connected to halloween. y don't u just look up halloween in a dictionary??

Answer 5

What does trick or treat mean?
The Celts tried to appease the evil spirits: ghosts, goblins, and demons. Huge "Samhain" bonfires were built to light the way for all the spirits to find their way in to the world of the living. They would leave out food, hoping that this would please the spirit world. If they did not leave a thing, then hence, the spirits would play evil "tricks" on the living in that house. The Druids required human sacrifices, they would go door to door asking for the virgin daughters. If this was not obtained at the chosen homes, then a hexagram was painted on the door in blood to show the appointed evil spirits to cause all kinds of evil to fall on the home. In some cases, even resulted in death.

Answer 6

The practice of dressing up in costumes and begging door to door for treats on holidays goes back to the Middle Ages. Trick-or-treating resembles the late medieval practice of "souling," when poor folk would go door to door, receiving food in return for prayers for the dead on All Souls Day. It originated in the British Isles, and is still popular in Ireland, and in some parts of England and Scotland.[3] Shakespeare mentions the practice in his comedy Two Gentlemen of Verona (1593), when Speed accuses his master of "puling [whimpering, whining], like a beggar at Hallowmas."[4]

Yet there is no evidence that souling was ever practiced in America, and trick-or-treating may have developed independently. There is little primary documentation of masking or costuming on Halloween — in Ireland, Britain, or America — before 1900.[5] The earliest reference to ritual begging on Halloween in English-speaking America occurs in 1915, with another isolated reference in Chicago in 1920.[6] It does not seem to have become a widespread practice until the 1930s, with the earliest known use in print of the term "trick or treat" appearing in 1934,[7] and the first use in a national publication occurring in 1939.[8] Early national attention to trick-or-treating was given in October 1947 issues of the children's magazines Jack and Jill and Children's Activities, and by Halloween episodes of the network radio programs The Baby Snooks Show in 1946 and The Jack Benny Show in 1948.[9] The custom had become firmly established in popular culture by 1952, when Walt Disney portrayed it in the cartoon Trick or Treat, and UNICEF first conducted a national campaign for children to raise funds for the charity while trick-or-treating.[10]

In Scotland and the North of England, it is called guising because of the disguise or costume worn by the children. Like trick-or-treating, it arose as a Halloween practice only in the twentieth century. However there is a significant difference from the way the practice has developed in the United States. In Scotland, the children are only supposed to receive treats if they perform tricks for the households they go to. These tricks normally take the form of a simple joke, song or funny poem which the child has memorized before setting out. Occasionally a more talented child may do card tricks, play the mouth organ, or something even more impressive, but most children will earn plenty of treats even with something very simple. However, guising is falling out of favour somewhat, being replaced in some parts of the country with the American form of trick-or-treating. In modern Ireland there is no "trick" involved (neither the Scottish party trick nor the American jocular threat), just "treats" — in the form of apples or nuts given out to the children. However, in 19th and early 20th century Ireland it was often much more exuberant — for example, slates were placed over the chimney-pots of houses filling the rooms with smoke and field gates were lifted off their hinges and hung from high tree branches.

In Quebec (Canada), kids also go door to door on Halloween however instead of "Trick or treat?", they will traditionaly say La charité s'il-vous-plait [Charity, please].

The ancient Celtic peoples believed that from sundown to sunup of the holiday of Samhain (later All Hallows Eve and Halloween) the mortal world and the spiritual world were closer and more easy to travel between than at any other time of the year. This was the time that people who had died could most easily visit the mortal world. The dead walk around on that night. Fairies also are out in great numbers. The Fianna went into their winter quarters at this time.

Answer 7

At my house, when the little pukes come ringing the bell and they say "trick or treat", I hold the regular sized hershey bars (you know, the "good ones") up out of their reach and I say "OK, TRICK" and they just look at me. I say "come on then, what's the trick? Is it a rabbit out of your hat, are you going to make me disappear? WHAT?" and then they just stammer there and hold out their bags for the goods. And I go inside and slam the door.
And NO, I've never been egged or tp'd or any of that.
And if you don't have a costume on, you have to sing a song. Those are always good ones. They'll be on youtube.com someday!

Answer 8

It means that if you don't give me a treat, I'll play a trick on you.

Answer 9

Trick or Treat, it explains its self.
If you don't give a treat you will be tricked.

Answer 10

The last person, an old lady who asked me that at her door and actually refused to give me candy.was buried in her back yard,only her head was above ground all night., in my part of the woods were take the trick or treating very seriously. I am nine years old.