Because of this “spooky” motif of blending the living and the dead and its proximity on the calendar to Halloween, many people wrongly mistake this tradition as some sort of “Mexican ...

Between themed TV specials, novelty candy flavors and the pageantry of the mass-produced costume, Halloween has become ... the barrier between the living and the dead became porous, allowing ...

The time of Samhain, now Halloween, was believed to be a time when the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead was especially weak. “People would set out food for their beloved dead.

Not Halloween as we know it ... According to Pagan tradition, in these hours the threshold between the living and the dead was at its thinnest, and Pagan gods were offered food and drink to ...

The Halloween festival known as Teng Chieh is built around rituals that not only celebrate the dead but free the spirits ... and their presence among the living is believed to be dangerous.