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Day of the Dead is taking on Halloween traditions, but the sacred holiday is far more than a 'Mexican Halloween' (theconversation.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Halloween itself is derived from the efforts of the European church to obliterate Celtic culture by declaring the dates of Samhain as a christian holy time, then incorporating and bastardizing many of the “pagan” (pre-church) practices. Doing the same to Dia de los Muertos is english tradition.