...on soul cakes.
Begging for soul cakes is considered the precursor of modern day trick-or-treating. Soul cakes are small, round spiced cakes representing a soul of a person. During the Middle Ages on All Souls' Day, children and the poor would go house-to-house begging for soul cakes. They would receive one upon promising to pray for the soul of a certain person.
(for something really scary, visit cakewrecks.blogspot.com. Yes, people can make fondant into awful shapes.)
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