Editing Trick-or-treating (section)

===Ancient precursors===
Traditions similar to the modern custom of trick-or-treating extend all the way back to [[classical antiquity]], although it is extremely unlikely that any of them are directly related to the modern custom. The ancient Greek writer [[Athenaeus]] of Naucratis records in his book ''[[The Deipnosophists]]'' that, in ancient times, the Greek island of [[Rhodes]] had a custom in which children would go from door-to-door dressed as swallows, singing a [[Swallow song of Rhodes|song]], which demanded the owners of the house to give them food and threatened to cause mischief if the owners of the house refused.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Turner|first1=Angela|title=Swallow|date=2015|publisher=Reaktion Books Ltd.|location=London|isbn=9781780235592|page=unpaginated|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VBbRCgAAQBAJ&q=swallow+song+of+Rhodes+trick-or-treating&pg=PT59}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Mathiesen|first1=Thomas J.|title=Apollo's Lyre: Greek Music and Music Theory in Antiquity and the Middle Ages|date=1999|publisher=University of Nebraska Press|location=Lincoln|isbn=978-1597407960|page=[https://archive.org/details/apolloslyregreek0000math/page/156 156]|url=https://archive.org/details/apolloslyregreek0000math|url-access=registration|quote=swallow song of Rhodes.}}</ref><ref>Athenaeus. ''Deipnosophists'' 8.360b-d.</ref> This tradition was claimed to have been started by the Rhodian lawgiver [[Cleobulus]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Dalby|first1=Andrew|article=Homer's Enemies: Lyric and Epic in the Seventh Century|title=Archaic Greece: New Approaches and New Evidence|date=1998|editor1-last=Fisher|editor1-first=Nick|editor2-last=van Wees|editor2-first=Hans|publisher=General Duckworth & Co. Ltd.|location=London|isbn=978-1-910589-58-8|page=204|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fARPDgAAQBAJ&q=swallow+song+of+Rhodes&pg=PA204}}</ref>