USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The earliest ragamuffins dressed in rags as parodies of beggars, which is how they earned their nicknames. Then they would ask neighbors and adults on the street, “Anything for Thanksgiving?” Common donations were pennies, apples, or a piece of candy.

Detailed explanation-2: -Ragamuffin Day took place on Thanksgiving, and typically involved children going from door to door asking for candy or money, a tradition that started with mummers in Europe. These children were originally dressed in the style of the homeless of New York, with rags and oversized and exaggerated imitations of beggars.

Detailed explanation-3: -Before Halloween trick-or-treating caught on, wasn’t there a different holiday in New York in which costumed children went around asking for treats? A. Yes, and many New Yorkers who are 70 or older still remember participating. It was called Ragamuffin Day, and it was held not on Halloween but on Thanksgiving.

Detailed explanation-4: -The End of Ragamuffin Day In 1956, the last recorded Ragamuffin Day parade was held. This event, however, was overshadowed by the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, an annual parade that started in 1924 and grew larger and larger each year.

Detailed explanation-5: -Trick-or-treating is a traditional Halloween custom for children and adults in some countries. During the evening of Halloween, on October 31, people in costumes travel from house to house, asking for treats with the phrase “trick or treat".