Pre-Halloween activities

[Rudolph C Troike]

One of my colleagues, who grew up in Maryland, sent me the following
information. Anyone hear of this?

        Rudy

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Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 21:49:59 -0700
From: Tom Willard <willard at email.arizona.edu>
To: Rudolph C Troike <rtroike at U.Arizona.EDU>

I heard that there was a different prank or trick for each of the last
seven days of October. Was this an Irish-American custom? If so, I suspect
it was more American than Irish!

TW