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Even if you’re not a person who loves Halloween — the costumes, the candy, the commercialism — there is an aspect of the holiday that’s actually really nice. On this one day, people open up their doors and welcome you into their homes (or at least onto their stoops or porches or driveways). People who might not, on any other given day, even nod hello will greet you with a basket or a plastic pumpkin full of treats.

Unless, of course, you’re thinking what Judith Klemesrud was thinking when she penned a cautionary article for the New York Times on October 28, 1970: Trick or treating on Halloween, she warned, is likely to result in “more horror than happiness.” That “kindly old woman down the block” has probably been busy all week stuffing apples with razor blades.

And that’s not all: “The chocolate ‘candy’ bar may be a laxative, the bubble gum may be sprinkled with lye, the popcorn balls may be coated with camphor, the candy may turn out to be packets containing sleeping pills,” Klemesrud wrote.

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