Where Did Trick-or-Treating Come From? Halloween Origins, Samhain & Jack-O’-Lanterns | Part 2 | Daily Bread

Daily Bread with The Mandated Reporter of The King's News · Oct 9, 2026 · 41m

Where did familiar Halloween traditions such as trick-or-treating, jack-o’-lanterns, costumes, and bobbing for apples come from?

Part 2 of this Daily Bread study moves from the principle that “the root explains the fruit” into the historical claims presented in the original teaching.

The episode discusses: Samhain, the Druids, the Festival of Death, bonfires, beliefs about movement between the natural and spirit worlds, food offerings, trick-or-treat customs, human and animal sacrifices, the carved turnip that later became associated with the jack-o’-lantern,

and: bobbing for apples as…