> 'Trick or treat' is understood to have derived from 'Mischief Day', an
> Elizabethan festival of organised japes that was held on the evening of
> the 4th November.
> This festival has presumably traveled across the Atlantic and become fused
> with Halloween, which has then returned back to Britain in this combined
> form.
> We are now lucky enough to have society sanctioned demands of money with
> menaces from the jolly youth of merry England!
lol where did you get that from ? i like