Soul Cake and Fruit Stall - Free offerings

The origin of Trick or Treat began in Old England with doorknocking for cakes, in return for which the doorknocker would issue a prayer for a lost soul of their household on All Hallows Eve.

Here is what the doorknockers used to recite or sing, as they wandered the streets, from a fascinating website containing the traditions:

http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/civilization/cc0070.html

"A soul cake, a soul cake, have mercy on all Christian souls for a soul cake!"

Then it became more produce oriented:

"Soul, soul, an apple or two,

If you haven't an apple,

a pear will do,

One for Peter,

two for Paul,

Three for the Man Who made us all."