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=== Portugal and Iberian Peninsula === In [[Portugal]], children go from house to house on All Saints Day and All Souls Day, carrying pumpkin carved lanterns called [[Coco (folklore)|coca]],<ref>Manuel de Paiva Boléo, Universidade de Coimbra. Instituto de Estudos Românicos. Revista portuguesa de filologia – Volume 12 – Página 745 – 1963</ref> asking everyone they see for [[Pão-por-Deus]] singing rhymes where they remind people why they are begging, saying "...It is for me and for you, and to give to the deceased who are dead and buried"<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.uc.pt/fluc/eclassicos/publicacoes/ficheiros/BEC46/02_-_Grego_-_LNazare.pdf| title = A canção ródia da andorinha}}</ref> or "It is to share with your deceased"<ref>{{cite web| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=0YoDAAAAYAAJ&dq=pedintes+%22fieis+de+deus%22&pg=PA177| title = Revista dos Açores, Volume 1 Sociedade Auxiladora das Lettras Açorianas| year = 1851}}</ref> In the [[Azores]] the bread given to the children takes the shape of the top of a skull.<ref>[http://museus.azores.gov.pt/ficheiros/jornal/532007192254.pdf Intermuseus Dezembro 2006 nº 7 Direcção Regional da Cultura] {{webarchive|url=http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20080311205521/http%3A//museus.azores.gov.pt/ficheiros/jornal/532007192254.pdf |date=2008-03-11 }}</ref> The tradition of pão-por-Deus was already recorded in the 15th century.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ZrUGAAAAQAAJ&dq=dia+dos+fieis+defuntos&pg=PA265| title = Elucidario das palavras, termos e frases, que em Portugal antigamente se usárão..., Volume 1| year = 1865}}</ref> In [[Galicia (Spain)|Galicia]], particularly in the island of [[A Illa de Arousa]], a similar tradition exists where children ask for alms (usually bread, sweets, fruits, chestnuts, money or small toys) with the phrase "unha esmoliña polos defuntiños que van alá" ("a little charity for the little deceased who are there").<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lavozdegalicia.es/noticia/arousa/2022/11/03/span-langglunha-limosnina-os-difuntinosspan-origen-tradicional-truco-trato/0003_202211A3C3991.htm|title="Unha limosnina os difuntiños": the origin of the traditional "Trick or Treat"|date=November 3, 2022|access-date=}}</ref>
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