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Families walk in the street during trick or treating on Saturday, Oct. 26, 2024, in Bondurant. Most Des Moines metro area trick-or-treaters will have to wait another day to get their candy.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — For the first time since 1938, children in Des Moines, Iowa, will go trick-or-treating on Halloween. Going door-to-door for candy on All Hallows' Eve has long been commonplace throughout the country.
The Iowa city typically celebrates "Beggars' Night" the day before Halloween, where kids will tell jokes to receive candy
Beggars Night, or Beggars' Night, is a regional term for the practice of going "Trick or Treat" in the period before Halloween night. Beggars Night emerged to address security concerns over young children involved in unsupervised Trick-or-Treating. Instead, younger children were encouraged to Trick-or-Treat on another night, before Halloween.
Des Moines, Iowa and surrounding communities continue to celebrate Beggars Night in lieu of traditional Halloween trick-or-treating, having set the night on October 30 every year since 1938. City law maintained that date for 86 years, hoping to deter violence and vandalism associated with Halloween.
Des Moines, Iowa is the only area known to have a record of trick-or-treating being used to deter crime. [67] Elsewhere, adults, as reported in newspapers from the mid-1930s to the mid-1950s, typically saw it as a form of extortion , with reactions ranging from bemused indulgence to anger. [ 68 ]
November 1, 2024 at 1:46 PM. ... If moved, the change would break with more than 80 years of tradition in which Des Moines metro kids trick-or-treat the day before Halloween.