Here are five Halloween<br />facts you might not have known. <br />1 The 2,000 year-old pagan festival — <br />known as "Samhain" — began in Ireland <br />to mark the end of fall's harvest. <br />2 The Celtic legend <br />of "Stingy Jack", told of a trickster farmer<br />who carved a lantern<br />out of a turnip to light <br />his way through purgatory. <br />3 It's the second-largest <br />holiday industry after Christmas. <br />4 Trick-or-treaters Used to dance for their Treats. Known as <br />"mumming" <br />or "guysing," the European <br />practice dates <br />back to <br />medieval times. <br />5 Before it was <br />tamed in <br />the 1950s, vandalism plagued <br />Halloween in America.<br />It was also a night to <br />predict future romance.
