Typical festive Halloween activities include trick-or-treating (also known as "guising")...attending costume parties, carving pumpkins into jack-o'-lanterns, lighting bonfires, apple bobbing, visiting haunted attractions, playing pranks, telling scary stories & watching horror films.
According to many scholars...it was originally influenced by western European harvest festivals & festivals of the dead with possible pagan roots...particularly the Celtic Samhain. Others maintain that it originated independently of Samhain & has Christian roots.
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