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Halloween is an annual holiday observed on october 31, which commonly includes activities such trick or treating, costume parties and carving jack o lanterns.
Historian Nicholas Rogers, exploring the origins of Halloween, notes that while some folklorists have detected its origins in the Roman feast of Pomona, the goddess of fruits and seeds, or in the festival of the dead called Parentalia, it is more typically linked to the Celtic festival of Samhain.
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