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This article originally appeared on Des Moines Register: When is Beggars Night 2024? Here are trick-or-treat times in Des Moines. Show comments. Advertisement. Advertisement. In Other News.
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 will begin trick-or-treating on Halloween for the first time since 1938 as the city's Beggars' Night was moved due to weather.
Beggars' Night for Des Moines residents instead will be held from 6-8 p.m. on Halloween night "to provide a safe and festive trick-or-treating experience for Des Moines children and families," a ...
Going door-to-door for candy on All Hallows' Eve has long been commonplace throughout the country. But not in Des Moines, where Iowa's capital city took a different approach more than seven decades ago in hopes of tamping down on hooliganism. Instead, Des Moines children don their costumes on Beggars' Night, typically the day 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.
The tradition of Beggar's Night started in 1938 in Des Moines to curb vandalism after police received a record 550 calls. For over 80 years, the city of Des Moines and much of the metro have ...
In the Great Lakes region, Michigan, western New York, and western Pennsylvania it is known as Devil's Night. [11] In Des Moines, Iowa and its surrounding suburbs, it is known as “Beggar’s Night”. It is common for children to trick-or-treat on Beggar's Night rather than Halloween.