All Saints Day & Day Of The Dead
Today is All Saints day, everything is shut so that people can go to the cemetery to have a chat and remember the dead, plastic flowers are exchanged for newer plastic flowers, marzipan sweets and deep fried dough fritters stuffed with cream and chocolate are scoffed with Aniseed liqueur.Tomorrow is the Day of the Dead, ( originally an Aztec custom) around the world people take dead relatives from their graves, dress them up and have a party.
I dont have any dead relatives and would feel awkward gate crashing someones cemetary party, If I dig up my cat and dressed it in a tinfoil suit and served some tuna sandwiches would that be seen as something bad?
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Real flowers and plants are used here more than plastic ones though, and there is no special food.
I do remember reading an article once on, I think National Geographic, where they party with the dead as you described.
It sounds a little macabre to me, but to each their own. Whatever makes one feel more at peace with losing loved ones is ok with me.
Also lines and lines of soldiers war graves Malta, Belgium, all beautifuly kept and because family could only visit once in a life time left plastic rose so as Molly says each to his own.
Our local cemetery isnt really lines of gravestones, most are in family Crypts so not much space for plants...I was going to say something about fridge magnets on the crypt doors but that would have been disrespectful and besides they are made out of marble and wouldnt stick.
Besides any dead relatives are in the wilds of Africa, here in this town, none, just a cat and a few snails I murdered earlier.
country in Latin America, or so I think
Duro, Yes Id say most of South America celebrate day of the dead, those Aztecs started something weird.
All Saints day?...... I don't bother now, let alone when i'm gone.
Bloody, I dont bother either, I was just bandwagoning on the dozens of Halloween blogs