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Tricking and treating has a history

  • Written by Regina Hansen, Senior Lecturer, Rhetoric, Boston University
imageHalloween parade in New York.AP Photo/Andres Kudacki

Over the past few decades, Halloween celebrations have gained in popularity, not only with children and families, but with all those fascinated with the spooky and scary.

As a scholar of myth andreligion in popular culture, I look at Halloween with particular interest – especially the ways...

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