early Christians would walk from village to village begging for “soul cakes,” made out of square pieces of bread with currants. The more soul cakes the beggars would receive, the more prayers they would promise to say on behalf of the dead relatives of the donors.
These were the origins of modern America’s trick-or-treating tradition.All-hallows Eve, All Saints’ Day, and All Souls’ Day were celebrated for many centuries, collectively called Hallowmas. This holiday eventually turned into what we know today as Halloween. Happy Halloween!
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Terence McKenna and Mark Pesce talk at Esalen 1998 about an emerging form of shamanism which utilizes new technologies such as virtual reality and the Internet.
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