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83El Día de los Muertos - Mexican Day of the Dead
El Día de los Muertos or, Day of the Dead, is an ancient Mexican holiday that is celebrated on November 1st and 2nd. Even though there are many similarities between El Día de los Muertos and Halloween, this...
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67My Grandfather - My Hero
My grandfather was the eldest and had a wife and five small children and quite a big farm when the First World War broke out. He was 32 years old and had to leave his home, family and village to go to...
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80Halloween Customs in Great Britain – The Celtic Lands
Halloween in the 21st century conjures up images of grinning pumpkin lanterns and kids in costumes going out ‘Trick or Treating’. It is now very much a commercial event, with costumes, make-up and candy. But in Britain the origins of Halloween go back into the mists of history...
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80Halloween – Filipino Style
Halloween which was a very big celebration in the western, was never been a part of Filipino tradition until recently. When I was a kid I would just hear some of my aunt attending Halloween parties, but it...
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61Shakespeare - and Halloween?
The plot of A Midsummer Night's Dream is very simple. A group of lovers wander into the forest on midsummer-night's eve...however, because it is a magical time when the mystical world opens to the everyday...
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59Halloween - Fact and Fiction
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72Why We Carve Pumpkins At Halloween
Why do we carve scary faces into pumpkins at Halloween and call them Jack-O-Lanterns anyway? The reason stretches back into the mists of time to the ancient Celtic religion. Before it was Halloween,...
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70How do Filipinos Celebrate the Halloween?
Halloween here in the Philippines is not like the Halloween in the Western countries. Although it’s a big holiday (comparable to Christmas here), we celebrate it in a different manner. Halloween in the...
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59HALLOWEEN AND CABBAGE NIGHT
Halloween has always been associated with the dead and the afterlife. To say people were pagans before they became Christians is not to say people were godless. There were as many forms of paganism as there...
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56Should Christians Participate in Halloween?
I grew up in a family where we had confusing messages from changing beliefs. My memories begin with school celebrations of Halloween, but not being allowed to go out and trick or treat. Then there was a time...
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