Halloween reference

[Linda Hyman]

Not sure what's going on here; but this sounds like the Mexican holiday
which occurs on Nov 1 (or Oct 31??).  They do a variety of interesting
things including firecrackers, flowers, special breads and candies shaped
like skeletons, etc.   I wouldn't be surprised if the Philippines
celebrated it since the Spanish were there too; but Taiwan???


>        My boss was stationed on Taiwan during his military days - he stated
>that there was a Day of the Dead, probably New Year but I'm not sure, in
>which food was brought to the cemetery for the ancestors and left outside
>the tombs. Firecrackers were also involved, which is why I think it might
>have been New Years.
>>At 11:24 AM 11/3/97 -0500, you wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Clemens Ruthner wrote:
>>>
>>>> In customs like Beggar's Night (mentioned by Lee Jennings) the actors
>>>> primarily represented the dead (gifts to the dead in ancient rituals),
>>>> not the poor. Christendom is as it seems responsible for those changes.
>>>
>>>Wasn't this carried over from the Druid tradition of making sacrifices to
>>>placate the dead?
>>>
>>>
>>>Lewis
>>
>>
>>        That's debateable, and certainly such sacrifices weren't unique to
>>the druids. The Roman perspective on history is what gives us that
>>impression.  I do think that leaving food out for the dead was probably a
>>pre-Christian custom and giving it to the poor was probably a later
>>adaptation of that custom.
>>
>>
>>                     K.A. Price
>>		   KPrice2 at niu.edu
>>	      z979592 at wheat.farm.niu.edu
>>
>>
>>
>>
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Linda Woods Hyman
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