HR Resolutions - October 2018

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE From the Desk of Karen PAGE 1 Communication in Leadership PAGE 1 Ways to Support a Recovering Loved One PAGE 2 Would You SurviveThese Marketing Nightmares? PAGE 3 Take a Break PAGE 3 Homemade Marshmallows PAGE 3 The Surprising Origins of Trick-or-Treating PAGE 4

WHY THERE ARE KIDS ON YOUR PORCH ASKING FOR CANDY

The History of Trick-or-Treating

started tearing through town begging for food and money and singing a song or prayer in return— a practice called“souling.” But when did they start dressing up as Minions? Starting in the 19th century, souling turned to “guising,”which gave way to trick-or- treating in mid-20th-century America, and the costumes diversified. So put on some clown makeup and a big smile,

Samhain, a new year’s party thrown at the end of our summer; and the Catholic All Saint’s Day, designed to replace Samuin and divorce it from its pagan origins. Long before there were young’uns on your porch dressed as Thanos with candy-filled pillowcases in hand, the Celts believed that Samuin marked an overlapping of the realms of the living and the dead. To trick the spirits leaking into our world, young men donned flowing white costumes and black masks — a great disguise when ghosts were about. The Catholic Church was never a big fan of these pagan traditions, so they renamed it“All Saints’Day”and gussied it up in religious garb. By the 11th century, people were dressing up as saints, angels, and the occasional demon instead of spirits. Eventually, costumed children

As Halloween looms and you load up your grocery cart with candy, you may ask

yourself, “Why do I provide these spooky gremlins with a sugar high every Oct. 31, anyway?”Well, when your doorbell starts ringing around 6 p.m. this All Hallows’ Eve, you can thank the Celts for this tradition of candy and costumes.

scoop up a handful of sweets, and scare the

Halloween itself is a kind of

mishmash of four different cultural festivals of old: two Roman fêtes, which commemorated the dead and the goddess of fruit