Halloween didn’t start out as candy and costumes. Long before pumpkins, trick-or-treating, and horror movie marathons, this time of year had a much more serious meaning. People believed the boundary between the living and the dead wasn’t quite as solid as usual. The veil was thin, and what you couldn’t see might still be there. Costumes weren’t necessarily about having fun. Sometimes, they were about protection. Somewhere along the way, though, we turned the whole thing into