{"id":19252,"date":"2022-10-30T10:15:20","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T09:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=218196"},"modified":"2022-10-30T10:35:08","modified_gmt":"2022-10-30T09:35:08","slug":"halloween-traditions-everything-you-wanted-to-know","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/halloween-traditions-everything-you-wanted-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween traditions: everything you wanted to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Ellie Cawthorne\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Sunday, 30 October 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>How did a Catholic religious celebration transform into a spooky, supernatural festivity? Why were turnips and swedes replaced by pumpkins? And what happened on \u2018mischief night\u2019? 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Why were turnips and swedes replaced by pumpkins? And what happened on \u2018mischief night\u2019? 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