Why Do We Say “Trick or Treat”?
Trick-or-treating (also known as Guising) is one of the traditions of the Halloween holiday in many English-speaking countries and in Mexico. Children in costumes (usually monsters but not necessary) go from house to house to beg for sweets, such (or, in some countries, money), asking «Trick or treat?»). “Trick” means a comic threat to cause harm to the owners of…