{"id":939,"date":"2013-10-30T07:58:09","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T07:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=939"},"modified":"2013-10-30T07:58:09","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T07:58:09","slug":"trick-or-treat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2013\/10\/30\/trick-or-treat\/","title":{"rendered":"Trick or treat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was an anti-Halloween letter in <em>The Sentinel<\/em> recently, repeating the myth that..<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s only been the last 20 years or so that we have copied trick or treat from the Yanks.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Actually it&#8217;s a very ancient and local tradition, as <a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2011\/11\/15\/staffordshire-folk-and-their-lore-1896-some-extracts-and-notes\/\">I&#8217;ve shown here previously<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the north [of the Midlands] (and also in Cheshire and North Shropshire), the festival of All Souls, November 2nd, is celebrated [on the Eve, 1st Nov] by parties of lads and children going round to all the principal houses begging for apples \u2014 and formerly for cakes and ale \u2014 and droning out:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cSoul soul, for a apple or two<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;If ye\u2019ve got no apples, pears\u2019ll do,<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;Up wi\u2019 the kettle and down wi\u2019 the pan.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;Give us a big \u2018un, and we\u2019ll be gone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is also the line: \u201cHe speaks puling [whimpering], like a beggar at Hallowmas,\u201d in Shakespeare (<em>Two Gent.<\/em>), from which we can infer that in Shakespeare&#8217;s time this was also a Warwickshire custom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was an anti-Halloween letter in The Sentinel recently, repeating the myth that.. &#8220;It&#8217;s only been the last 20 years or so that we have copied trick or treat from the Yanks.&#8221; Actually it&#8217;s a very ancient and local tradition, as I&#8217;ve shown here previously&#8230; \u201cIn the north [of the Midlands] (and also in Cheshire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}