Will you celebrate anyone? What are your family’s traditions around Day of the Dead and Halloween? But I will also honor the memory of my mother in the coming days. So I will happily take my 8-year-old daughter through our neighborhood to ask for candy on Halloween. But I have a daughter who delights in dressing up, attending the town parade and indulging in candy. Part of it is that I’ve grown more disturbed by the evolution-or perhaps devolution-of Halloween decorations into what are sometimes quite offensive portrayals of horror. I must say that I much prefer Day of the Dead celebrations to Halloween in my older age. They may wear suits or fancy dresses and carry noisemakers.Ĭostumes vary and can be trendy, but traditional Halloween costumes include:įavorite foods of the late family members Participants dress up as skeletons and paint their faces to look like colorful skulls. Monarch butterflies ( believed to house spirits of those who have died) The cempasúchil ( a type of marigold flower that is grown in Mexico) The ofrenda ( the altar that contains photographs and other objects of departed loved ones) It began as a festival to ward off ghosts and has evolved into a night of costumes, parties, and trick-or-treating.
To celebrate, honor, and remember deceased loved ones. Originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain
Originated in Mexico and celebrated throughout Latin America Here’s a quick look at some of the differences between the two days: These looks are based partly on the decorated sugar skulls that are left on altars as offerings to the spirits. The skeletal appearance highlighted with flowers, bright colors and artwork is a striking image that has now become an icon of the Day of the Dead. Perhaps the most popular part of the holiday is people turning themselves into skeletons using elaborate makeup and masks. Families tend graves and leave offerings, plant flowers and trees, wear the clothes of their deceased relatives, and build altars in their homes to honor their loved ones. Rather than displaying grim or gory decorations, Day of the Dead celebrations involve paying respects to loved ones. In the Aztec culture the celebration of the dead was in August and went on for a month. The practice of celebrating the dead goes back thousands of years in Latin American cultures. It’s a celebration of family and a show of respect for those who have passed away. It’s a holiday for people to honor their ancestors and loved ones who have passed away and invite those spirits back into their homes to be part of the family once more. The Day of the Dead holiday (in Spanish referred to as Dia de los Muertos), originated in Mexico and celebrates the dead, rather than being afraid of the dead. Both celebrations involve costumes, skeletons, and treats as well as graveyards and death imagery. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.The Day of the Dead celebrations may coincide with Halloween and seem similar. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. From late October to early November, visitors flock to (Day of the Dead). We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. Top quality Dia de Los Muertos sugar skulls, molds, skeleton folk art, cut paper banners, Mexican oilcloth, and more Creator of the original sugar skull molds. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.
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