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Halloween hasn’t always been about dressing as your favorite movie character, trick or treating, and amassing great hoards of candy.\n

In fact, the concept of a \u201cHalloween costume\u201d is barely a century old.\n

The name comes from \u201cAll Hallows E\u2019en\u201d (or \u201cAll Hallows Eve\u201d), part of a three-day Christian holiday that replaced the end-of-summer pagan festival Samhain.\n

The name stuck for a millennium, until \u201cHallowe\u2019en\u201d traditions found their way to North America in the 1800’s.\n

Even then, Halloween was more about bobbing for apples and amateur fortune telling than anything else.\n

Soon it became a day for escalating pranks, such as covering neighbors with flour and hiding fence gates, and eventually outright vandalism. Such innocent times, indeed!\n

It wasn\u2019t until the early 1900’s that costumes became part of Halloween traditions, and they were often cheap and made of paper.\n

This infographic looks back at those origins, and traces how Hallowe\u2019en became the Halloween that we know today.\n

Along the way, it includes examples of contemporary celebrations from literature, radio broadcasts, and movies.\n

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Halloween hasn’t always been about dressing as your favorite movie character, trick or treating, and amassing great hoards of candy. In fact, the concept of a \u201cHalloween costume\u201d is barely a century old. Check out this fun infographic about the evolution of Halloween in North America!\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"0","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"12143,206072,255383,227783","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"category":[12],"tags":[51,54],"topics":[159],"class_list":["post-9145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holidays-celebrations","tag-halloween","tag-infographics","topics-halloween-traditions","infinite-scroll-item","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33","resize-featured-image"],"acf":{"tfs_sources":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.halloweencostumes.com\/blog\/p-982-the-evolution-of-halloween-in-north-america-infographic.aspx","title":"HalloweenCostumes.com","no_follow":false}],"tfs_previous_post_link":false,"tfs_next_post_link":false,"tfs_guest_author":false,"is_simple_trending":true,"trend_by":"exact_date","exact_dates":[{"repeats":true,"date":"20201023","importance":"7"}]},"yoast_head":"

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